Top Stories

Focus Shifts To Wasted Power
Low power is no longer enough. Is all of the power consumed usefully? Low energy is the new goal.

Using Emulators For Power/Performance Tradeoffs
Chip design’s big iron is moving further forward in the design cycle.

Less Margin, More Respins, And New Markets
How physics is reshaping the leading edge of design.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling finds power and performance becoming more intertwined than ever, in Less Food, More Thought.

Mentor’s Madhur Bhargava and Durgesh Prasad explain how to tackle the different coverage categories for low-power verification, in Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Full Coverage Closure In Low-Power Designs.

Synopsys’ Himanshu Bhatt describes a UPF-aware solution for clock and reset domain crossings, in Shift Left Power-Aware Static Verification.

Fraunhofer EAS’s Dirk Mayer and Olaf Enge-Rosenblatt examine the few remaining challenges to smart buildings’ significant energy savings, in IoT For Building Energy Systems In Zero-Emission Buildings.

Cadence’s Paul McLellan outlines the achievements of the first woman to win EDA’s top honor, in Mary Jane Irwin Receives The Kaufman Award.

Adesto’s Joao Marques reviews the challenges of converting the analog information from all the sensors in a factory to the digital world, in The Industrial Internet Of Things Relies On ADCs.

Arm’s Kazuki Ohta explains why real-time predictive scoring could help modify driver behavior to reduce accident rates, in AI Warnings For Safer Driving.

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