Special Report
Chiplets, Faster Interconnects, More Efficiency
Why Intel, AMD, Arm, and IBM are focusing on architectures, microarchitectures, and functional changes.
Top Stories
Synthesizing Hardware From Software
Can a software engineer create hardware? It may be possible, but not in the way that existing high-level synthesis tools do it.
What Is A Custom Processor?
The definition has changed, and so has the impact on the design process.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling explains why large chip companies are embracing third-party accelerators, and trying to steal each other’s experts, in Surround And Conquer.
Technology Editor Brian Bailey implores device manufacturers to be transparent with users about how secure their devices really are, in Making Security User Friendly.
Mentor’s Wael ElManhawy and Joe Kwan examine the impact of systematic process variation on layouts for improving yield and product robustness, in Fast LFD Flows With Pattern Matching And Machine Learning Can Deliver Higher-Yielding Designs Faster.
Synopsys’ Sudeep Mondal and Sean O’Donohue present a coverage-driven hybrid approach of static and dynamic verification for functional CDC verification closure, in Clock Domain Crossing Signoff Through Static-Formal-Simulation.
UltraSoC’s Aileen Ryan argues that it’s time for the automotive industry to come together to define security best practices, in Responsibility And Automotive Security.
OneSpin’s Nicolae Tusinschi digs into why successful projects entail more than core compliance to the ISA, in A Holistic View Of RISC-V Verification.
