Special Report
Is Dark Silicon Wasted Silicon?
The physics of semiconductor scaling require thinking about die area utilization in a new way.
Top Stories
Stacked Die, Phase Two
Production versions of this packaging approach are hitting the market, with many more on the horizon. Problems remain from tooling to cost, and opinions differ widely about what’s next.
The Wild West Of Automotive
Where there is change, there is opportunity. But it can also create uncertainty. Such is the case with automotive electronics.
One-On-One: Dark Silicon
Part 1: UC San Diego Michael Taylor talks about why transistor scaling will continue for now—and what will end it.
UPF 3.0 Moves Toward Ratification
Additions include system-level power analysis and modeling, component-level modeling, improvements for transition states, better hierarchy.
Does Fast Simulation Help Debug Productivity?
Optimizing one tool in a flow has less impact than expected and may shift the problem elsewhere, such as debug.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling observes the semiconductor industry is undergoing seismic shifts that will affect everything from tools to equipment to the future of Moore’s Law, in Big Acquisitions, Big Changes.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler questions whether offloading tasks to specialized hardware is worth the trouble, in Fighting Dark Silicon With Specialized Hardware.
Mentor Graphics consultant Lauro Rizzatti questions whether it’s time for the industry to devise a nimbler, faster and more efficient methodology, in The Power Estimation Challenge.
Atrenta’s Ravindra Aneja explains the advantages and best approaches for using linting tools for fast and shallow analysis on very large designs, in Taming Lint With Formal.
Cadence’s Brian Fuller examines the symbiotic relationship between systems designers and the semiconductor and EDA ecosystem, and why it’s so essential, in How We’ll Get There From Here.
Ansys’ Arti Dwivedi rolls out some best practices for using UPF and key questions to consider along the way, in UPF-Driven RTL Power Budgeting For Energy-Efficient Designs.
ARM’s Neil Parris digs into hardware coherency to manage sharing automatically and simplify software, in What Is Coherency?
Synopsys’ Angela Raucher and Elliptic’s Dana Neustadter zero in on key questions to ask when looking at HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 IP, in Securing 4K Content And Beyond Over HDMI.
