Special Report
Keeping Up With The Productivity Challenge
How has the migration to multi-core architectures affected the EDA industry and what does this tell us about the way in which the rest of the industry is handling the transition?
Top Stories
Designing For Energy Efficiency
What changes when the first priority is longer battery life or reducing a seven-figure energy bill?
Are More Cores Really Better?
The effects of one architectural change on hardware, software and the design flow have far-reaching consequences. Adding a second processing core adds untold complexity.
Another Tool In The Bag
Multi-bit registers allow engineering teams to realize additional power reduction on top of widely used clock gating. Their use in advanced nodes is picking up steam.
Virtual Prototyping Takes Off
Experts at the Table, part 1: What’s different about virtual prototyping now; the growing emphasis on performance and power in software; time to market vs. better reliability.
Video
Tech Talk: Power Sign-Off
A look at early-stage prototyping, the importance of context, accurate power modeling of sub-blocks, and simulation of power-delivery networks.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling finds a growing consensus that the social media market is poised for a shakeout, with a potential threat to the semiconductor industry, in Why Social Media Matters To You.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler observes that the challenge for an always-on application continues to grow, in Design For Always-On.
Ansys-Apache’s Annapoorna Krishnaswamy points out that what complicates SoC design is that IP is often targeted for a wide variety of applications and technology/process nodes, in IP Design Essentials For Power Integrity.
Cadence’s Brian Fuller notes that just because we have more cores doesn’t mean we can use them—or at least not yet, in The Multicore Processing Conundrum.
Rambus’ Loren Shalinsky dives into big iron numbers, the size of the problem, and how to tackle it, in Data Center Power Consumption: What Effect Does Memory Have?
Atrenta’s Mark Baker steps up to the plate on baseball and power statistics, and where there are similarities, in Power Exploration: MLB World Series, Bumgarner, and Box Scores.
Synopsys’ Mike Thompson writes that it’s a challenge to improve performance in a shrinking power budget, in Using Multicore Processors To Accelerate Your High-Performance Embedded Linux Applications.
Mentor Graphics’ Joe Hupcey finds the gotchas and hidden problems in SoC clock domain crossings in this User Case Study.
ARM’s Christopher Seidl looks into better software and all the various pieces that are involved in Efficient Software Development.
