Top Stories

Racing To Design Chips Faster
As the market begins shifting toward more vertical solutions, methodologies, tools and goals are changing on a grand scale.

IP Requirements Changing
More accessible data and hooks needed to integrate dozens of complex black boxes.

Masters Of Abstraction
What makes one system designer better than another?

Getting Formal About Debug
Formal technology is playing an increasing role in the debug process, and some fundamental new directions are being explored to make debug more automated.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling observes that big changes are coming, but not in the usual places, in What’s After Smartphones?

Technology Editor Brian Bailey questions whether choices based on economics and ROI are the right moral choices, in Techno-Morality Is Our Concern.

Synopsys’ Pat Sheridan examines how virtual prototyping impacts power management, in Talk Fast and Stop.

Aldec’s Henry Chan digs into the fundamentals of the newest verification standard, in UVM: It’s Organized And Systematic.

NetSpeed’s John Bainbridge argues that we need a synthesis tool set for SoC interconnects, in Advancing SoC Technology.

Mentor Graphics’ James Forsyth shows how to make the perfect breakfast at work, in Can You Really Fry An Egg On A CPU?

eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna finds much has changed at high-school science fairs, in Robotics: Let The Games Begin.

Agnisys’ Anupam Bakshi points to important observations from Einstein and New England’s ice traders, in The Ultimate Shift Left.

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister zeroes in on how to enable the use of connected verification engines, in Education And Communication.