Special Report
Why Chips Are Getting Noisier
Even at older nodes with mostly digital circuitry, noise is a growing problem.
Top Stories
Waiting For Chiplet Interfaces
Plug-and-play approaches are gaining mindshare, even if some of the key pieces are missing.
HBM2 Vs. GDDR6: Tradeoffs In DRAM
Experts at the Table, part 1: Choices vary depending upon application, cost and the need for capacity and bandwidth, but the number of options is confusing.
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Memory Options And Tradeoffs
What kinds of memories work best where and why.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that a trade war couldn’t have happened at a worse time, in Playing Into China’s Hands.
Synopsys’ Ron Lowman recommends looking beyond traditional design processes when making more effective and optimized AI SoCs, in Building Your First Chip For Artificial Intelligence? Read This First.
Rambus’ Sanjay Charagulla observes that as AI processor performance grows, so does the importance of choosing a memory architecture, in HBM2e Offers Solid Path For AI Accelerators.
Mentor’s Slava Zhuchenya explains why using filters to remove unused and unnecessary layout data can speed identification of high-resistance problem areas, in Speed Up P2P Resistance Debugging With Selective Highlighting.
Adesto Technologies’ Paul Hill demonstrates how serial flash devices that support JESD252 can overcome challenges associated with smaller, lower-cost packages that don’t have a dedicated reset pin, in Resetting Serial Memory When A System Failure Occurs.
Arm’s Jason Andrews proposes an end-to-end workflow for deploying embedded machine learning, in Deep Learning Models With MATLAB And Cortex-A.