Special Report
Antenna Design Grows Up
Modern electronics relies heavily on antennas, but companies still make mistakes. That’s about to change.
Top Stories
The Ultimate Shift Left
Many implementation steps have been moving earlier in the design flow. Floorplanning is next, and it encompasses everything from architectural to physical.
Worst-Case Results Causing Problems
At 10nm and 7nm, overdesign can affect power, performance and time to market.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling argues that stopping governments from listening to your conversations at home will require much more power-hungry and sophisticated devices, in Power, Performance And Electronic Surveillance.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler examines the often-forgotten antenna, and why it is now the center of attention, in Smart Antennas Come Into View.
Rambus’ Bill Fuller observes that high-bandwidth memory is gaining significant traction, but poses unique challenges for PHY, chip and subsystem design, in HBM2: It’s All About The PHY.
Teklatech’s Tobias Bjerregaard contends that power integrity optimization no longer can be a reactive step in the backend process, in 10nm And 7nm Routability: How Is Your CAD Flow Doing?
Synopsys’ Morten Christiansen shows how USB headsets can be power-competitive with analog and displace the 3.5mm jack, in New USB Audio Class For USB Type-C Digital Headsets.
Mentor Graphics’ Russell Klein digs into a tricky power problem with a practical example of debugging, in Correlating Software Execution With Switching Activity To Save Power In SoC Designs.
ARM’s Antonio Russo explains why running trace and in-field debug through I/O is long overdue, in Debug Is About To Get Really Interesting Again.
