Special Report
Optimizing IC Designs For Real-World Use Cases
Vector-driven approach comes at expense of secondary tasks.
Top Stories
AI, Rising Chip Complexity Complicate Prototyping
Constant updates, more variables, and new demands for performance per watt are driving changes at the front end of design.
Preparing For Commercial Chiplets
What’s missing, what changes are underway, and why chiplets are increasingly necessary.
Why It’s So Difficult To Ensure System Safety Over Time
Gaps in tools and uncertainties in methodologies leave the door open for unexpected failures.
Tradeoffs Between On-Premise And On-Cloud Design
Which companies are using the cloud and why, and where are the hidden pitfalls.
Videos
Challenges In Ramping New Manufacturing Processes
Speeding the rollout of new process technology.
Speeding Up Design Closure
What factors can impact time-to-market for advanced nodes and packages.
Blogs
Technology Editor Brian Bailey explains why things that did not work in the past may be the new way forward, and suggests companies innovate with help from universities, in Predicting The Future For Semiconductors.
Movellus’ Aakash Jani shows how recent technological trends have introduced uncertainties that are driving the need for a more flexible approach for mitigating on-die voltage droop, in Balancing IR Drop Unpredictability With Post-Silicon Flexibility.
Arteris’ Frank Schirrmeister looks at relevant source data and develops some new visualizations for SoC integration and networks-on-chip (NoCs), in Design Complexity In The Golden Age Of Semiconductors.
Expedera’s Paul Karazuba shows why the parallel nature of transformers makes them a good fit for resource-constrained edge devices, in Generative AI: Transforming Inference At The Edge.
Keysight’s Emily Yan explores the growing impact of GaN, emerging challenges in device modeling, and how engineers could reconcile high costs with the pursuit of model accuracy, in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors: What Modeling Challenges Must We Overcome.
Codasip’s Mike Eftimakis examines the facts and debunks the myths spun by RISC-V competitors about the risk of fragmentation as a weak point of the architecture, in RISC-V Customization Gets A Standing Ovation.
Siemens’ Michael White explains how finding and resolving targeted issues during design and implementation helps design teams gain productivity improvements and reduce time to tapeout, in Why Shift Left?
Cadence’s Reela Samuel provides an excerpt of Nimish Modi’s keynote presentation at CadenceLIVE India, on The Power Of Computational Software: From Revolutionizing Chips To Cancer Research.
Sponsor White Papers
Accelerating Monte Carlo Simulations For Faster Statistical Variation Analysis, Debugging, And Signoff Of Circuit Functionality
Why it’s so critical to incorporate manufacturing variations in the early stages of IC design.
Stop-For-Top IP Model To Replace One-Stop-Shop By 2025…And Support The Creation Of Successful Chiplet Business
An updated IP model for data-centric and high-performance applications.
Power Supply Noise Effects On Jitter In Clock Synchronous Systems With Emphasis On Memory Interfaces
A look at the impact on LPDDR5X, DDR5, and HBM3.
A Design Flow For Critical Embedded Systems
How IP encapsulation/packaging and interoperability using IP-XACT helped in automating a complex verification & validation flow.
An Ideal Architecture For Always-On Camera Subsystems
A dedicated always-sensing subsystem that can handle the security, privacy, and power rigors of always-on systems.
The Four Foundational Pillars Of Calibre Shift Left Solutions For IC Design And Implementation Flows
Optimizing design through verification, execution, debug, and correction.
New Research eBook
Chiplets: Deep Dive Into Designing, Manufacturing, And Testing
Chiplets may be the semiconductor industry’s hardest challenge yet, but they are the best path forward.
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