Special Report

Safety Plus Security: A New Challenge
First in a series: There is a price to pay for adding safety and security into a product, but how do you assess that and control it? The implications are far reaching, and not all techniques provide the same returns.

Top Stories

Transient Power Problems Rising
At 10/7nm, power management becomes much more difficult; old tricks don’t work.

Hardware/Software Tipping Point
Has the tide turned from increasing amounts of general purpose, software defined products, to one where custom hardware will make a comeback?

Video

Tech Talk: Neural Networks
How to design and implement convolution neural networks, and what to watch out for.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling points to a fundamental shift from faster processors to faster processes, in Age Of Acceleration.

Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler argues that sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, in ESD Guns, Transients And Testing, Oh My!

Rambus’ Mohit Gupta contends that as demand for higher bandwidth within a similar power envelope grows, so does the concept of SoC/ASIC disaggregation, in From SerDes Chiplets To Die-To-Die Interfaces.

Cadence’s Dave Pursley finds that different power concerns lead to different solutions, in What Does “Low Power Optimization” Mean To You?

Synopsys’ Gordon Cooper observes that advances in embedded vision are powering autonomous driving, in The Evolution Of Deep Learning For ADAS Applications.

ARM’s Sriram Ragunathan sees a new chapter beginning for mobile devices, in Large-Screen Compute Transformation Is Here.

Mentor’s Progyna Khondkar digs deep into the Liberty syntax and other non-standard behavior model libraries, in Libraries: Standardization And Requirements For Power-Aware Dynamic Simulation.