Top Stories

Hidden Costs Of Shifting Left
How much time and effort can be saved by doing certain tasks earlier, and where are the pain points.

More Nodes, New Problems
Acceleration of advanced processes, skyrocketing complexity and cost, and concerns about IP availability are raising some difficult questions.

EDA In The Cloud
Experts at the Table, part 1: While the Cloud may be ready for EDA, it is not clear how ready EDA is for the Cloud. What needs to change?

Videos

Tech Talk: FPGA RTL Checking
How to make sure the RTL in an FPGA matches what you developed.

Tech Talk: HW-Assisted Development
How to verify different use cases.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling argues that it’s too early to predict who will win and why, but there are big opportunities emerging everywhere, in The Great Chip Shakeup.

Mentor’s James Paris shows why it’s so important to validate chip-level interconnects and block interfaces early, in Interface DRC Can Streamline Chip-Level Interface Physical Verification.

Arteris IP’s Kurt Shuler explains why interconnects are vital when incorporating deep learning into automotive designs, in Neural Nets In ADAS And Autonomous Driving SoC Designs.

UltraSoC’s Gajinder Panesar digs into the world of servers and high-performance computing, where the smallest inefficiencies can build into big problems, in Bugs With Long Tails Can Be Costly Pests.

Aldec’s Vatsal Choksi examines the different phases that UVM follows, in Inside UVM, Take Three.

OneSpin’s Tom Anderson observes that equivalence checking was key to making logic synthesis mainstream, but it’s more complex when it comes to FPGAs, in Why Your FPGA Synthesis Flow Requires Verification.

eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna looks at why great strides in artificial intelligence and deep learning are happening now, in Deep Learning And The Future.

Synopsys’ Mark Richards views simple flows as the vestige of a bygone era, in Design Flows At 5nm And Beyond.

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister contends that tradeoffs can be a good thing when you have the flexibility to choose what’s important, in Different Shades Of Prototyping And Ecosystems: System Development At CDNLive 2018.