Special Report
Reaching The Power Budget
Why power is still a problem, how it will get worse, and what can be done about it.
Top Stories
Designing SoC Power Networks
With no tools available to ensure an optimal power delivery network, the industry turns to heuristics and industry advice.
Does Power Analysis Need To Be Accurate?
Debate rages over what is needed for analysis, estimation and optimization.
Optimization Challenges For 10nm And 7nm
Experts at the Table, part 1: What will it take to optimize a design at 10nm and 7nm? The problem gets harder with each new node.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that most of the new memory types flooding the market will not be successful, in May The Cheapest Memory Win.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler questions whether accuracy should be a necessity for power analysis and optimization, in Accuracy Is Relative.
Synopsys’ Srikanth Jadcherla argues that in the new world of multi-voltage chips, design analysis concepts need to be rethought, in Back To Basics On Multi-Voltage Verification.
Cadence’s Christine Young digs into the challenges of designing a wearable, closed-loop seizure detection microsystem, in The Role Of Energy-Efficient Circuits In Wearable Healthcare Applications.
ARM’s James Bruce finds that as users demand more from each generation of smartphone, thermal budgets are shrinking, in Confronting Design Challenges With Smaller Thermal Envelopes.
Mentor Graphics’ Russell Klein examines how to reduce emulation delays associated with probe-based debug of embedded software, in Optimizing Emulator Utilization.
