Special Report
Data Centers On Wheels
Automakers shifting to HPC chips for improved performance and lower system cost.
Top Stories
Debug: The Schedule Killer
Time spent in debug is unpredictable. It consumes a large portion of the development cycle and can disrupt schedules, but good practices can minimize it.
Rocky Road To Designing Chips In The Cloud
The EDA ecosystem is in the early stages of pivoting to the cloud, but not everything will move there.
Architectural Considerations For AI
What will it take to be successful with a custom chip for processing a neural network targeting the data center or the edge? A lot of money is looking for that answer.
CEO Outlook: More Data, More Integration, Same Deadlines
How design is changing with the shift from homogeneous ICs to heterogeneous, multi-chip packages.
Blogs
Technology Editor Brian Bailey observes that feedback is one of the oldest forms of data, but today data controls almost everything that we do, in Pitching To Your Audience.
Siemens EDA’s Per Viklund recommends creating an early package prototype to drive multi-physics analysis and help guide partitioning, in Shifting Left: Early Multi Physics Analysis For STCO.
Synopsys’ Taruna Reddy explains why correct specification of FPs and MCPs is critical for proper synthesis results, in Early Simulation Of Multi-Cycle Paths And False Paths.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister examines whether several wireless protocols competing to connect home-automation devices can work together, in Smart Home Device Communication In The Era Of Hyperconnectivity.
Codasip’s Roddy Urquhart outlines why domain-specific accelerators are the most promising answer to the failure of semiconductor scaling laws, in An Introduction To Domain-Specific Accelerators.
Whitepapers
Verilog HDL And Its Ancestors And Descendants
Using A System Technology Co-Optimization (STCO) Approach For 2.5/3D Heterogeneous Semiconductor Integration
IP Solutions For A Data-Centric World
Debugging Point-To-Point Resistance Using Contribution By Layer In IC Validator PERC
An Advanced Infrastructure To Enable Secure, Cloud-Aware Design And Processed Data EDA Tool Interoperability
