Special Report
Energy Harvesting Makes Progress
After years of dabbling with ways to create energy without an external power source, real efforts are being made to commercialize this approach.
Top Stories
Problems Lurk In SoC Boundaries
Interfaces have always been a trouble spot, but recent changes in the design flow are making them even more problematic.
Cost Reduction, Power Management Get More Intense In IoT
Mass market strategies will affect requirements for what’s designed and how quickly.
An Architectural Choice Overdue For Change
Risk aversion is often the reason why architectural decisions get made even though some different options may provide advantages.
Architecting For Optimal Interface IP Integration
Experts at the table, part one: Floorplanning is critical; trading off configurability and power; keeping pace with evolving technology; the impact of smaller process geometries.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling finds that the pressure to ratchet down voltage has created problems in every part of the design flow, in Power Is Now Every Engineer’s Concern.
Executive Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler contends that the industry needs to figure out how to leverage all of the data that tools generate to make sure IoT devices are exactly targeted to their task, in Power Limits Apps In The IoT.
Synopsys’ Alan Gibbons explains why processor performance cannot increase without making energy efficiency a primary objective, in IP Power Models Enable Energy-Aware System-Level Design.
Atrenta’s Bernard Murphy has created the high-level spec for what he believes is A (Possible) Killer Wearable App.
ANSYS’ Sankar Ramachandran explains why power grid design becomes more difficult at advance nodes, in Smart Early ASIC Design Prototyping And Analysis.
Cadence’s Brian Fuller looks back at what really happened in 2014 and what it means to the future of chip design, in Electronic System Design in 2015: Busting Through Bottlenecks.
Rambus’ Loren Shalinsky compares mobile and datacenter memory growth to the consumer market, in What You Don’t Know About Consumer Memory.
ARM’s Mayank Sharma observes that the cost of debug is now $312 billion per year, in Building A Better Customized Debug And Trace Solution For Multi-Core SoCs.
