Top Stories
Uneven Circuit Aging Becoming A Bigger Problem
The industry is gaining ground in understanding how aging affects reliability, but more variables make it harder to fix.
What Makes RISC-V Verification Unique?
The verification of a processor is a lot more complex than a comparably-sized ASIC, and RISC-V processors take this to another layer of complexity.
MIPI’s Focus Widens
Why a standard developed for mobile phones has become so important for other markets.
Cooling The Data Center
There’s no perfect solution to data center cooling, but multiple approaches are being developed.
Self-Heating Issues Spread
Advances in devices, materials, and packaging technologies all contribute to power problems. But do you need to be concerned about each transistor and wire?
Round Table
Do Necessary Tools Exist For RISC-V Verification?
Existing tools can be used for RISC-V, but they may not be the most effective or efficient. What else is needed?
Video
Impact Of Increased IC Performance On Memory
Factors that need to be considered to improve reliability at higher speeds.
Blogs
Rambus’ Lou Ternullo looks at sharing memory resources across CPUs and accelerators, in Enabling New Server Architectures With The CXL Interconnect.
Synopsys’ Jerry Lotto advises finding the speed sweet spot to keep the price point of edge deployments manageable, in 100G Ethernet IP For Edge Computing.
Cadence’s Paul McLellan explores separating the power delivery network from signal wiring to leverage benefits ranging from reduced IR drop to chip area scaling, in IEDM: Backside Power Delivery.
Siemens’ Janet Attar digs into how a little timing sacrifice can reclaim power metrics, in Low-Power IC Design Without Compromise.
Fraunhofer’s Dirk Mayer talks about how to ensure sensors work as expected, in Trusted Sensor Technology For The Internet Of Things.
Arm’s Masoud Koleini proposes tuning parameters to achieve the required performance while optimally using available resources, in Spark On AWS Graviton2 Best Practices: K-Means Clustering Case Study.
Ansys’ Graziella Alves shows how IIoT and operational data enable simulation on a much larger scale, in Digital Twin Initiative Reaches Across The Cloud To The Edge.
Quadric’s Jon Bunting looks at how inference-focused benchmarks can distract SoC designers from optimizing performance for end-to-end AI applications, in AI Benchmarks Are Broken.
Sponsor White Papers
A Hierarchical And Tractable Mixed-Signal Verification Methodology For First-Generation Analog AI Processors
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What’s At Stake In System Design?
Power and signal integrity, electromagnetic analysis, RF/microwave design, and thermal analysis are key to system design.
How Low Can You Go? Pushing The Limits Of Transistors
How memory compilers and logic libraries have been enhanced to support deep low voltages.
Learn The Architecture — Memory System Resource Partitioning And Monitoring (MPAM) Overview
An intro to Memory System Resource Partitioning and Monitoring (MPAM), an optional addition to the Arm architecture for memory system partitioning.
17 Equations That Changed The World
Formulas used for validating the results of an automated design analysis (ADA).
eBook (Premium Content)
China Chip Industry Startup Funding Annual Report & Analysis: 2022
As export rules tighten, China is racing to stay competitive in chips. In 2022, that included at least $19 billion in investments, 821 funding rounds, and 700 startups.
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