Top Stories

Optimization Driving Changes In Microarchitectures
New approaches emerge as demand for improved power and performance overwhelm design tools.

Containing The Explosion In Data
Designs are getting bigger, verification runs longer, and every stage of development and deployment provides valuable data — if you can find it.

Building Complex Chips That Last Longer
Experts at the Table: Using multiphysics and lots of computation to improve reliability and resiliency in advanced nodes and packages.

Blogs

Technology Editor Brian Bailey looks at what can we expect to see come down the wearables runway, and what does it really represent, in Wearables Disconnect.

Siemens EDA’s Dina Medhat explains how to determine appropriate electrostatic discharge robustness requirements, in Can We Efficiently Automate 2.5/3D IC ESD Protection Verification?

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister asks if there is an industry domain leading the adoption of AI, in Microelectronics And The AI Revolution.

Synopsys’ Yudhan Rajoo explores why the artful balancing act of designing SoCs can no longer be accomplished with traditional RTL-to-GDSII flows, in Hyper-Convergence Is The New Normal For Digital Implementation.

Codasip’s Rupert Baines sees industry momentum and interest in RISC-V continue to grow, in Why It’s The Perfect Time To Be Part Of The RISC-V Revolution.