Special Report
Reliability Definition Is Changing
Complexity and vulnerabilities in systems are raising questions about what constitutes a fully functional design.
Top Stories
Who Pays For EDA Shift Left?
The industry is changing and more information is flying around at an ever-faster pace. It is intended to reduce costs for semiconductor companies, but who is footing the bill?
The Art Of LP Analog
Getting the optimum power scenario for the analog portion of an SoC requires a deep understanding of all use modes.
Emulation Uses Increase
Accelerated hardware finds many new applications beyond verification.
With Responsibility Comes Power
Who is responsible for ensuring a chip is within its power budget and are they being given the tools to do the job?
Power Management Verification Requires Holistic Approach
Experts at the table, part one of three: Putting power management verification into context; power format challenges; shifting from point tools to methodologies.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling contends the current ways of measuring energy efficiency are useless and it’s time to change them, in How Long Will Your Battery Last?
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler finds that chip design innovations happen by a variety of means, in The LP R&D Ecosystem.
Synopsys’ Mary Ann White reports the results of a survey showing nearly a third of all designs target the most advanced process nodes, with 10nm coming on fast, in Low Power Trends Toward FinFET.
Cadence’s Brian Fuller notes that early impressions of the IoT aren’t all that impressive and there’s a lot to be done to make it work, in Postcards From The Edge (Of The Cloud).
Mentor’s Robin Bornoff points to the importance of a package’s internal junction temperature, a key parameter because it’s linked to reliability and functional performance, in Calibrating Electronics Thermal Simulation Models.
Ansys’ Muhammad Zakir’s argues that meeting a power budget and calling it a day is no longer good enough, in Low-Power Design Is More Than Just Minimizing Power.
Atrenta’s Larry Vivolo observes that semiconductor design is a great model for other industries, in Applying Lessons Of Mass Production To Verification.
Nvidia’s Barry Pangrle takes an early look at UPF 3.0, saying attention is focused on a higher level of design abstraction, possibly with early modeling and estmation, in An Update On The IEEE 1801-2013 Unified Power Format Standard.
