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Technology Editor Brian Bailey explains why it’s never easy to make sure that everyone is speaking the same language, especially when it comes to models. But without a clear understanding of needs, nothing else makes sense, in The Federation Needs A Taxonomy.
Synopsys’ Yuval Shay illustrates how to use AI-driven automation to quickly reimplement analog designs in a new technology node, in Accelerating Analog Design Migration.
Arteris’ Frank Schirrmeister lays out what goes on between the sensor and the data center, in Network-on-Chips Enabling Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Everywhere.
Codasip’s Laurent Arditi shows how to distinguish between escapable and unescapable deadlocks, in Formal Verification Best Practices: Investigating A Deadlock.
Movellus’ Barry Pangrle dives into a new architecture with no central or off-chip memory, and no von Neumann bottleneck, in IBM’s Energy-Efficient NorthPole AI Unit.
Keysight’s Anda Ioana Enescu Buyruk and Catalin Tudor examine how the introduction of neural networks has paved the way for greater autonomy in AI systems, in Thoughts On AI Consciousness.
Cadence’s Qingyu Lin talks about why it’s not always practical to save all signals during simulation, in Use Tcl To Save Signals More Efficiently In AMS Simulations.
Siemens EDA’s David Abercrombie digs into the practicalities of shifting sign-off verification flows into the design and implementation phases, in A Shift Left Strategy Is One Part Of A Holistic Approach To IC Design Verification.
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