Special Reports
IC Architectures Shift As OEMs Narrow Their Focus
As chip companies customize designs, the number of possible pitfalls is growing. Tighter partnerships and acquisitions may help.
Toward Domain-Specific EDA
Is the tools market really changing, or has this always been the case?
Top Stories
Strengthening The Global Semi Supply Chain
Robust partnerships and multi-party innovation will be essential to manage complexity and cost.
Can ML Help Verification? Maybe
A lot of engineers are trying to use machine learning to improve the functional verification process, but the industry is struggling to make headway.
Progress In Quantum Computing
Commercial viability appears complicated, but feasible; timing still unknown.
Blogs
Technology Editor Brian Bailey explains why, at a time when many pieces of an EDA flow are being fused together, pressure is mounting to make it a lot more open and amenable to external extension and enhancement, in The End Of Closed EDA.
Siemens’ WeiLii Tan advises catching IP correctness problems early in the design flow, in Why Every Design IP Needs A Complete QA Methodology.
Synopsys’ Manoj Chacko discusses timing convergence with fewer iterations and faster turnaround time, in Golden Signoff ECO For Last-Mile Electronic Design Closure.
Renesas’ Andrew Cowell examines a single architecture to manage the power demands of the many different types of processors in a data center, in Digital Power Sets The Direction For Data Center Growth In The AI Era.
Codasip’s Mike Eftimakis explores different configurations and combinations of IP in a single environment, in Collaboration Leading The Way For Broad RISC-V Adoption.
Cadence’s Ben Gu argues that electromagnetic analysis is essential for interposer designs, in Holistic 3D-IC Interposer Analysis In Product Designs.
Siemens’s Tom Fitzpatrick and Accellera’s Peter Grove look at bringing reusable verification components and stimuli to analog and mixed-signal designs, in Extending The Benefits Of UVM To Include AMS: An Update On Accellera’s UVM-AMS Standard Development.
Keysight’s Don Dingee finds that workflows are changing, and design can no longer be an isolated activity, in What Is The Definition Of Design For Context?
Sponsor White Paper
Interactive Symmetry Checking Provides Faster, Easier Symmetry Verification For Analog And Custom IC Designs
Why 1D axis and 2D common centroid device symmetry verification are so critical for performance.
Efficient Verification Of Mixed-Signal Series IP Using UVM
Universal Verification Methodology tackles mixed-signal verification with this robust technique.
Faster & Smarter LVS For The SoC Era
Modern SoCs pose significant challenges to traditional LVS methods, and in recent years there has been considerable innovation in LVS tools.
DDR Memory Test Challenges From DDR3 To DDR5
From DDR3, DDR4, and DDR5, learn the progression of the technology, how tests have evolved, and the test equipment that can help combat challenges.
64-Bit RISC-V Microprocessor Delivers New Options For IoT Edge Development
A microprocessor equipped with a 64-bit RISC-V CPU with expanded options and superior performance within its class.
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