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Customizing Processors
How custom a processor needs to be depends upon many factors, but selecting the appropriate tool chain may be the right place to start.
Bespoke Silicon Redefines Custom ASICs
A fundamental shift in the economics of processing and new use cases are making ASICs cool again.
Distilling The Essence Of Four DAC Keynotes
Common themes emerge, but so do different ways of looking at a problem, from business opportunity to concern for the environment.
Blogs
Technology Editor Brian Bailey observes that metrics for determining completeness are both incomplete and biased, in ML And UVM Share Same Flaws.
Synopsys’ Ian Land and Ricardo Borges look at how to ensure semiconductor components will survive while orbiting our planet or traveling through deep space, in TCAD-Based Radiation Modeling Technique For Reliable Aerospace Chips.
Renesas’ Marta Martínez Vázquez lays out advances in radar technology that enable more sophisticated analysis, detection, and tracking, in Radar For Automotive: Basics Of FMCW Radar.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister summarizes the rapid changes happening in the aerospace/defense ecosystem, in Digital Transformation At The Farnborough Airshow 2022.
Codasip’s Brett Cline finds enthusiastic support for the RISC-V ISA as architectural innovation takes over from traditional scaling, in DAC 2022: Is It Too Risky Not To Adopt RISC-V?
Synopsys’ Ricardo Borges and Anand Thiruvengadam explain why optimizing memory at advanced nodes requires it to be designed in the context of other technology, in Memory Evolution Drives Requirements For Design Technology Co-Optimization.
Movellus’ Aakash Jani warns that the clock distribution network consumes a sizable portion of the physical design and verification budget, in Cutting Clock Costs On The Bleeding Edge Of Process Nodes.
Keysight’s Don Dingee offers techniques for smoothing out friction in a connected RF workflow, in A Look Inside RF Design.
Siemens EDA’s Dina Medhat uses a systematic methodology to verify latch-up prevention and ESD protection of 2.5D and 3D ICs, in 2.5/3D IC Reliability Verification Has Come A Long Way.
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Microstrip Antenna Design
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Custom Compiler Technology Highlights From 2022.06 Release
Key technologies in Custom Compiler’s latest release, and innovative solutions for design closure and layout automation.
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