Top Stories
3D Power Delivery
The design of the power delivery network just got a lot more complicated, and designers can no longer rely on margining when things become vertical.
Trading Off Power And Performance Earlier In Designs
Complexity, tighter schedules require deeper understanding throughout the design flow.
Reducing Software Power
Software plays a significant role in overall power consumption, but so far there has been little progress on that front.
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Machine Learning Inferencing At The Edge
How designing ML chips differs from other types of processors.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling observes that what was once a progression of bottlenecks and technology issues has turned into a minefield, in Another Brick Or Two In The Wall.
Rambus’ Steven Woo shows why memory is no longer able to keep pace with raw compute capability, creating a bottleneck that grows larger each year, in Breaking Down The AI Memory Wall.
Synopsys’ Graham Wilson reviews how DSPs evolved to support the demands of new mobile communication standards, in High-Performance DSP And Control Processing For Complex 5G Requirements.
Adesto’s Paul Hill and Gordon MacNee demonstrate how to integrate power control circuitry into the memory device itself, allowing the master device to control the power mode via serial flash SPI, in Simplifying Ultra-Low Power System Design.
Mentor’s Allan Crone makes the case for a new place and route flow that produces fast results out of the box and allows for full flow customization, in Place And Route Made Easier And Faster.
