Top Stories
More Data, Different Approaches
As the amount of data in designs explodes, Big Data tools and techniques are being added into EDA and manufacturing.
EDA’s Clouded Future
EDA and the cloud mix slightly better than oil and water, but could the combination provide a better business model for both sides of the equation?
What Is A System Now?
As designs become part of connected networks, so do the requirements for what’s needed to make it work properly.
Wrong Verification Revolution Offered
The industry says the focus of new verification efforts is misguided and that only the easy problems are being tackled.
Asynchronous’ Impact On Tools
In the proper context, asynchronous logic in SoC design today can provide benefits. But what about impact on design tools and flows?
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling points out why one M&A deal in particular is worth watching with a powerful magnifying glass, in Intel Plus Altera.
Technology Editor Brian Bailey finds several programs in the military and commercial worlds aimed at stamping out counterfeiting, in DoD Scratches Its Head Over Foundry Security.
Mentor’s Mathew Clark contends that current methodologies are inadequate to address increasingly complex thermal issues, in Thermal Interface Materials: The Unknown Entity?
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister argues that having real comparisons for verification engines will go a long way in allowing chipmakers to understand what they’re buying and why, in Towards A Metric To Measure Verification Computing Efficiency.
Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter observes that early software development is now being used to accelerate hardware verification and hardware-software integration, in Shift Left: Software Or Hardware?
eSilicon’s Jens Andersen looks at why analytics are critical to the future of semiconductor design, in Big Data, Big Opportunities.
Arteris’ Kurt Shuler notes that it’s easier today than ever before to design a chip that cannot be manufactured, in Tear Down The Wall Between Front-End And Back-End Teams.
