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Redefining The Power Delivery Network
Getting power around a complex package, which includes externally sourced chiplets, may come with a higher cost than some are prepared to pay.

Preparing For A Barrage Of Physical Effects
A perfect storm of miniaturization at 3nm and advanced packaging is forcing design teams to confront issues they often ignored in the past.

Power And Performance Optimization At 7/5/3nm
Experts at the Table: What happens when AI chips max out at reticle size?

Blogs

Synopsys’ Stelios Diamantidis contends that the design-by-optimization paradigm calls for a new way of looking at how hardware and software interact, in The Emergence Of Hardware As A Key Enabler For The Age Of Artificial Intelligence.

Fraunhofer EAS’ Christoph Sohrmann explains how standardization efforts are underway to ensure information can be accurately shared through the automotive supply chain, in Mission Profiles In The Automotive Development Process.

Mentor’s Akshay Sarup and Mark Olen prescribe saving time by eliminating the need to code a new sequence for each scenario, in How UVM Callbacks Simplify Assertion Validation.

Rambus’ Frank Ferro concludes that continued increases in memory capacity and bandwidth are needed to keep AI accelerators and processors from being bottlenecked, in Scaling AI/ML Training Performance With HBM2E Memory.

Ansys’ Krista Loeffler explains how to ensure that components of a safety system not only work as designed but also operate appropriately in real-world scenarios, in Expanding Automotive Safety With SOTIF.

Cadence’s Tyler Lockman digs into the importance of automatically correcting sharp angles and acid traps with minimal change to routing layers, in Make Acute Angles A Sharp Problem Of The Past.

Arm’s Rob Aitken focuses on the impact of data analytics and AI on global energy use and what can be done to improve it, in Semiconductors And The Climate Curve.

Moortec’s Richard McPartland warns that increased process variation and the end of Dennard scaling combine to mean the worst case for device power is getting worse, in Managing Worst Case Power Conditions.

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