Special Report

Are Chips Getting More Reliable?
Maybe, but metrics are murky for new designs and new technology, and there are more unknowns than ever.

Top Stories

Heterogeneous Multi-Core Headaches
Using different processors in a system makes sense for power and performance, but it’s making cache coherency much more difficult.

Using Agile Methods For Hardware
What used to work in design and verification no longer applies. An Agile development approach is one place to start.

Predictions For 2016: Tools and Flows
Why EDA will be the cornerstone of the IoT, and where the biggest changes will be.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling argues that taking advantage of new markets requires some fundamental changes throughout the EDA industry, in Time For Change.

Technology Editor Brian Bailey contends that 2016 could be a boring year because the industry and the products it produces have all become adequate, despite the fact that there is a way out, in Device Adequateness.

Mentor Graphics’ Ellie Burns explores why UPF needs to be an integral part of a design rather than an afterthought, in Three Steps To Complete Power-Aware Debug.

Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter digs into self-driving and almost self-driving cars and how to improve them, in Prototyping In The Driver’s Seat For ADAS Development.

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister looks back to the Cell processor and solid-state drives and forward to the driverless car, in Enablement For A Decade Of Innovation.

XtremeEDA’s Neil Johnson finds peer pressure is causing verification teams to adopt UVM, but questions whether it’s time to talk about alternatives, in Still Time To Blow Up UVM.

eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna observes that EDA is at the center of the IoT, and the IoT is at the center of DAC, in DAC Finds A New Voice.

FirstEDA’s Alex Grove sings the praises of FPGAs, in Reprogrammable, Reprogrammable, Reprogrammable.