Top Stories
What’s Different At 16/14nm?
FinFET-based design is expensive and difficult, with parts of road map still under construction, but progress is being made.
Memory Design At 16/14nm
What you know may no longer be the best information. Such is the case when thinking about memories in a finFET world.
The Interconnect Bottleneck
While interconnect structures promise simplified and optimized SoC design, things do not always go as planned.
Full Coverage Or Full Monty
Experts at the table, part 1: Have coverage metrics kept pace with design changes and are new capabilities being adopted?
Executive Insight: Jack Harding
eSilicon’s president and CEO sounds off on consolidation, new business models, and why there’s still lots of life left in Moore’s Law.
News
Avago Buys Broadcom; NXP Spins Off RF Power Unit
M&A activity heats up across semiconductor industry.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling predicts more acquisitions and deals as the IoT begins to take shape, in M&A Season Now Officially Open.
Technology Editor Brian Bailey contends that patents are no longer useful in industries where development and product lifecycles are shorter than patent filings and litigation times, in Rethinking Patents.
Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter argues it’s time to add automation into automotive design, in Lazy Or Bored: The Outcome Might Be The Same.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister points to three trends that will drive discussions at this year’s DAC, in Toward Smarter Design Automation.
Mentor’s Kurt Takara and Joe Hupcey take on clock domain crossing, metastability and asynchronous clock relationships, in When Things Go Wrong Even When You’re Doing The Right Thing.
Arteris’ Kurt Shuler finds it’s increasingly easy to design a chip that’s impossible to manufacture, in Tear Down The Wall Between Front-End And Back-End Teams.
Sonics’ Randy Smith argues that a methodology used for developing software is now required in hardware, in Get Agile.
eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna notes that given the success of companies like Facebook and Uber, maybe owning physical assets isn’t so important anymore, in It’s Not What You Own, It’s What You Know.
