Special Report

Devices Threatened By Analog Content?
With few measurable methods to assess analog quality, it’s not clear how that can impact safety-critical applications.

Top Stories

What Can Be Cut From A Design?
Doing more with less equates to bigger design challenges.

Routing Signals At 7nm
Teklatech’s CEO talks about the challenges of scaling and how to minimize IR drop and timing issues.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling argues that adapting engineering organizations to deal with power and security is as complicated as the technology they’re developing, in Fix Processes, Then Silos.

Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler finds that formal technology is moving well beyond its original verification role, in Adapting Formal.

Ansys’ Sankar Ramachandran contends that getting the design right the first time has higher stakes than ever before, in Confidence In 7nm Designs Requires Multi-Variable, Multi-Scenario Analysis.

Synopsys’ Richard Solomon examines what’s new in PCIe 4.0 and why you should start working with it now, in Advantages Of Designing With PCI Express 4.0 Draft 0.7 And PIPE 4.4 Specifications.

Rambus’ Frank Ferro observes that high-bandwidth memory is gaining momentum in server and networking systems as designers move higher bandwidth closer to the CPU, in The Challenges Of Designing An HBM2 PHY.

ARM’s Jon Taylor looks at how virtualization can help meet safety goals in embedded systems, in Real-Time Virtualization—How Hard Can It Be?

Mentor Graphics’ Russell Klein recounts a strange tale from the forest, adding that when something out of the ordinary happens, you want to go back and have a closer look, in Finding The Unexpected In High-Performance Designs.