Top Stories

Embedded Software Verification Issues Grow
Inconsistent results, integration issues, and lack of financial incentives to solve these problems point to continued problems for chipmakers.

Tuning Heterogeneous SoCs
Just adding more cores doesn’t guarantee better performance or lower power.

Analog’s Rising Status
Uptick in demand low power and power-sensitive designs brings new challenges and opportunities.

Reflecting Back On 2016: Markets
How last year’s predictions panned out over the past 12 months.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling examines the potential fallout from a biotech case and why it could have huge implications for semiconductor IP, in IP Liability Changes Ahead?

Teklatech’s Tobias Bjerregaard digs into optimizing for dynamic voltage drop at the beginning of physical implementation, in Dynamic Peak Power As A Proxy For DVD? Really?

Mentor Graphics’ Saurabh Sharma contends that knowing where trouble spots lie is vital in creating a verification plan to avoid them, in Five Pitfalls In PCIe-Based NVMe Controller Verification.

Rambus’ Steven Woo shows how FPGAs are helping to shape computing platforms of the future, in What Comes After Moore’s Law And Dennard Scaling?

Ansys’ Scott Johnson explains why margin-driven methodology results in sub-optimal designs, while looking at design data holistically can help, in Design Convergence For 7nm Chips Needs Big Data-Driven Multi-Physics Optimization.

Cadence’s Tom Anderson looks into combining power domain manipulation on top of system-level tests for low-power verification, in Verification Of Low-Power Designs With Portable Stimulus.

ARM’s Rob Coombs provides security tips for IoT designs that extend beyond the processor, in Five Ways To Avoid Being the Next IoT Security Headline.

Synopsys’ Derek Bouius points to changes on the horizon for validation of cryptographic algorithms, in Ensure Robust Encryption With CAVP Validation For FIPS 140-2 Conformance.