Top Stories
Focus Shifts To Architectures
As chipmakers search for the biggest bang for new markets, the emphasis isn’t just on process nodes anymore. But these kinds of changes also add risks.
Noise Killed My Chip
Which kind of noise is likely to give your next project a headache, and what you can do about it.
Power Options And Issues
From initial concepts to final sign-off, power has become one of the most challenging design problems.
Integration IP Helps IP Integration
The MIPI Alliance has been the plumber for the mobile industry and now hopes to migrate that success into the automotive and IoT spaces.
News
GlobalFoundries Rolls Out 12nm FD-SOI Process
Foundry also touts an ecosystem for its 22nm process.
Video
Tech Talk: Micro-Architecting Power
A deep dive into how to save power by leveraging idle time.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling contends that raw performance is getting harder to prove, which is a problem, in The Real Value Of Digital Horsepower.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler questions whether there is really as much divisiveness as there appears when it comes to power, in Accuracy, Waveforms, And Power.
Mentor Graphics’ Harry Foster uncorks this year’s industry-wide study of verification trends, in The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study.
ARM’s Andrew Hopkins points to the growing importance of functional safety as cars add more safety features, in What You Need To Know About Functional Safety Requirements.
Cadence’s Christine Young provides details about what’s needed in a power-aware verification flow, in Managing Power Without Impacting Design Intent.
Teklatech’s Tobias Bjerregaard argues that power integrity challenges stand in the way of exploiting the benefits of scaling, in Hitting The Power Integrity Wall At 10nm.
Ansys’ Muhammad Zakir finds that with the transition to finFETs, reliability challenges are increasing, in Implementing ESD Protection In Today’s SoCs.
