Special Report
The Secret Life Of Accelerators
Unique machine learning algorithms, diminished benefits from scaling, and a need for more granularity are creating a boom for accelerators.
Top Stories
Designing For The IoT
Each day of DAC started with an IoT-related keynote. Sometimes they agreed, sometimes not, but the implications are enormous.
How Much Verification Is Necessary?
Sorting out issues about which tool to use when is a necessary first step—and something of an art.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that the saturation in the mobile market is just the beginning of the next big things, in Explosive Growth Ahead.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister argues that verifying entire systems will require organizational changes, not just mixed abstraction levels, in Emulating Systems Of Systems.
Mentor’s Dan Driscoll examines the different hardware mechanisms used for subsystem isolation in Xilinx MPSoC, in Achieving Separation On Multiprocessor SoCs For Enhanced Safety And Security.
Aldec guest blogger Jim Lewis, chair of IEEE’s 1076 VHDL working group, explains why you don’t need to learn SystemVerilog, in Improving VHDL.
OneSpin’s Sergio Marchese reveals how many ways there are to solve a problem, in And The Winners Are… 10 Formal Solutions To Einstein’s Riddle.
ArterisIP’s Kurt Shuler shows how interconnect IP enables a new side view mirror technology, in Reducing Latency In ADAS SoC Design Enhances QoS For Digital Mirroring.
NetSpeed Systems’ Rajesh Ramanujam recounts a story of physical design and a successful customer relationshiop, in The Perfect (Silicon) Marriage…Yes, It Exists.
Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter finds that as SoC designs grow larger, Chinese and Taiwanese companies are adopting integrated prototyping solutions, in When A Lot May Not Be Enough.
ARM’s Jason Andrews digs into how to work with the latest models for software development and performance analysis, in Fast Models, Cycle Models.
