Top Stories
Partition Lines Growing Fuzzy
What used to be a straightforward progression from board to chipset to chip is no longer so obvious.
Incremental Design Methodologies
Making changes in designs and still hitting narrow market windows with complex chips requires a different approach.
IP Market Booms At Advanced Nodes
Market conditions and business pressures are creating new opportunities for IP subsystem integrators.
Custom Versus Platform Design
From automotive to consumer markets, strategies are all over the map when it comes to future design.
First Time Success And Cost Control
Experts at the table, part 1: Panelists discuss the impact that IoT will have on tools and methodologies and the role of system-level tools.
Processor Use Models Evolving
Understanding demands that application-specific processors put on SoCs can determine success and failure.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling contends that chips are becoming more reliable in critical environments, but the initial design is aging too quickly, in Obsolescence Isn’t Always Good.
Technology Editor Brian Bailey digs into the IEEE’s updated bylaws regarding licensing of standard essential patents and finds objectors who are ready to abandon the standards body, in Feathers Ruffled By IEEE Patent License Changes.
Arteris’ Kurt Shuler examines specialized teams that are finding new ways to stitch individual efforts into the SoC fabric, in Streamlining Interconnect Integration Accelerates Globally Distributed Design.
Mentor Graphics’ Jon McDonald questions what level of accuracy is required to ensure the platforms and models being used accurately represent the characteristics being analyzed, in Defining Functional Accuracy.
Open-Silicon’s Dhananjay Wagh takes a look at how to break through the memory bandwidth wall, in Inside The Hybrid Memory Cube.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister observes that power is limited, and the best way to deal with it is by using early and accurate power analysis, in Getting The Right Return On Invested Power Consumption.
Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter opens a new chapter in how virtual prototypes were used for a multi-function printer SoC, in Better Software. Faster! A Virtual Prototyping Case Study From Kyocera Document Solutions.
