Top Stories
Rethinking Power
The growing emphasis on battery life and energy costs is prompting tools vendors to rethink what they offer, how it gets used, and by whom.
Trouble Ahead For IP industry?
Could process technology changes be signaling a disruptive change for the IP industry? The relentless drive for lower power holds the key.
Capturing Performance
Examples of architectural strategies for getting the best performance out of a power budget.
Accelerating Development For Low Power
Are low power methodologies progressing fast enough? The industry is split and struggling for answers.
Power Management Verification Requires Holistic Approach
Experts at the table, part 2: Biggest verification challenges; tool bugs; getting to 100%.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that the real cost energy isn’t so obvious, in Always-On Energy Challenges.
Mentor Graphics’ John McMillan observes that constraints have become much more than just physical dimensions, in Correct-By-Design Methodology Requires Carefully Defined Constraints.
Cadence’s Brian Fuller finds there is no shortage of options when it comes to power, but that still doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy, in How Do We Push The Limits Of Power?
Synopsys’ Rita Horner zeroes in on how to choose the optimal SerDes PHY for your SoC, in One PHY Does Not Fit All.
ARM’s Bob Monkman looks at new cloud and networking infrastructures that are being developed to improve power and performance, in Changes In The Cloud.
Calypto’s Anand Iyer offers a look at first-in, first-out design tradeoffs, in Microarchitecture Design For Low Power.
Ansys-Apache’s Chris Ortiz explains why designing for low-power efficiency requires a thorough understanding of switching scenarios and their effects, in How Switching Activity Impacts A Design’s Power And Reliability.
Atrenta’s Mark Baker digs into how to improve the quality of RTL and why that leads to more predictable design convergence and higher design utilization, in Physical Lint: Physical Quality Metrics For Your RTL.
Rambus’ Frank Ferro notes that getting to the cloud means a greater reliance on memory, in How Is Your HBM Memory?.
