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The Problem With Clocks
Clocks are power- and area-hungry, and difficult to distribute in a controlled manner. What is being done to reign in these unwieldy beasts?

Managing Voltage Drop At 10/7nm
Building a power delivery network with the low implementation overhead becomes more problematic at advanced nodes.

Electric Vehicles Set The Pace
Developments in this part of the market will define low power and energy efficiency for years to come.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling polls four CEOs on why security adoption is so slow, and questions the impact on power and performance, in The Hidden Costs of Security.

Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler observes that when it comes to understanding electricity, sometimes a down-to-earth explanation is best, in Understanding Voltage Drop Mechanics.

Cadence’s Samer Hijazi digs into the limitations of convolutional neural nets on DSP processors, in The Efficiency Problem.

Rambus’ Bill Fuller finds managing signal integrity increasingly difficult as data rates move to 56Gps and beyond, in Understanding SerDes Signal Integrity Challenges.

ANSYS’ Ravi Ravikumar contends that automotive ICs need to be verified and validated in the context of the entire system, over billions of miles of road testing, in Creating Reliable SoCs For Safe ADAS Applications.

Mentor’s Progyna Khondkar examines how to handle design-specific power-aware verification complexities with SystemVerilog and UPF, in Working With Custom Checkers In Dynamic Simulation Of Low-Power Designs.

ARM’s Govind Wathan explains that moving AI out of the cloud requires a new approach to mobile architectures, in Rethinking Computing For The AI Age.

Synopsys’ Angela Raucher argues that the long lifecycle of automotive ICs means keeping functional safety requirements in mind, in Why You Need ASIL Certified Processor IP For Automotive Safety Applications.