Top Stories
The Mightier Microcontroller
MCUs will play an increasingly critical role in cars and IoT devices, but they’re also becoming much more difficult to design.
Do Single-Vendor Flows Make Sense Yet?
Design tool providers may want to lock customers into a complete tool flow, but is that best for users or the industry?
Ray Zinn Reflects On 37 Years As CEO Of Micrel
What managing a company for nearly four decades taught him could fill a book, but he’s far from done.
Formal Confusion
Experts at the Table: part one. What is the best way to apply formal verification? Some of the industry’s top users have a difference of opinion.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that IC M&A activity hangs in the balance between the yuan devaluation and U.S. interest rate hikes, in What Will China Do Next?
Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter examines how to maximize utilization of FPGA-based prototyping by letting it be far away, in Prototyping Server Farms.
Agnisys’s Anupam Bakshi argues that whether dealing with SoCs or a disaster in space, determining the correct set of steps is vital, in It’s All In The Sequence.
OneSpin Systems’ Dave Kelf digs into how to make standards creation a less biased process, in Going Open Source.
Aldec’s Louie De Luna observes that to successfully implement DO-254, organizations must be prepared to make a big change, in The Hardest Part Of DO-254 Is…
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister points to verification engines, portable stimulus and ecosystems, in The Top Five Trends In Verification To Watch For At DAC 2016.
Mentor Graphics’ Yousaf Mohammad uses computational fluid dynamics to design and select the ideal heatsink, in What I Learned About Heatsinks Using Thermal Simulation.
