Top Stories
Is PPA Relevant Today?
Power, performance, and area/cost have been the three optimization targets for decades, but are they pertinent for today’s complex systems?
Higher Density, More Data Create New Bottlenecks In AI Chips
More options are available, but each comes with tradeoffs and adds to complexity.
The Challenges Of Upgrading Lithium Batteries
Safety and energy density are prime motivators as researchers seek to improve lithium batteries.
Striking A Balance On Efficiency, Performance, And Cost
More efficient designs can save a lot of power, but in the past those savings have been co-opted for higher performance.
CXL Thriving As Memory Link
Adoption of Compute Express Link protocol spreads as way to connect memories.
Blogs
Siemens’ Farhad Ahmed explains how a proper reset domain crossing sign-off methodology helps avoid metastability and other problems, in Elimination Of Functional False Path During RDC Analysis.
Synopsys’ Robert Ruiz offers simulation tips for partial designs, debugging a UVM testbench, AIP validation, ATPG test vectors, and incorporating outside IP, in Simulation Replay Tackles Key Verification Challenges.
Fraunhofer IIS/EAS’ Jens Michael Warmuth outlines why ADAS makes it necessary to adopt new approaches for overcurrent protection, in eFuses: Use Cases, Benefits, And Design In The System Context.
Quadric’s Steve Roddy digs into AI acceleration IP selection, and why companies need to port one or more new ML networks using the vendor toolsets, in Can You Rely Upon Your NPU Vendor To Be Your Customers’ Data Science Team?
Rambus’ Nidish Kamath delves into HBM4 and why increased bandwidth, board space savings, and power efficiency make up for higher implementation and manufacturing costs, in HBM4 Feeds Generative AI’s Hunger For More Memory Bandwidth.
Cadence’s Kos Gitchev shows how next-gen memory module technology doubles the DRAM data rate and maintains the RAS capabilities of RDIMM modules, in DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM IP: Powering The Future Of AI, HPC, And Data Centers.
Ansys’ Wim Slagter runs the numbers and finds the initial purchase cost typically accounts for about 50% of total expenses incurred over a system’s useful life, in Understanding The Total Cost Of Ownership In HPC And AI Systems.
Arm Research’s Alexandre Peixoto Ferreira contends that reference cores and hybrid runtime deployments could play a useful role in mitigating complexity, in Evolving Edge Computing And Harnessing Heterogeneity.
Power architect Barry Pangrle suggests that adopting liquid cooling technology could significantly reduce electricity costs, in Liquid Cooling, Meeting The Demands Of AI Data Centers.
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