Top Stories

Will Hypervisors Protect Us?
They may not be a silver bullet, but they are a good first step when it comes to securing cars and the Internet of Things. Problems start when people believe the job is complete.

Can Analog And Digital Get Along Better?
Combining both in a mixed-signal design brings challenges in a different realm. Expertise is the key to success.

Putting Design Back Into DFT
Structured test solutions have had a profound impact on test time, cost and product quality, but the industry is starting to look at some alternatives.

FPGA Prototyping Gains Ground
The popular design methodology enables more sophisticated hardware/software verification before first silicon becomes available.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling finds semiconductor companies crossing lines in ways no one ever would have expected, in Surprises At Hot Chips 2016.

OneSpin’s Dave Kelf points to problems of the past as a way to build versatile formal apps, in Customizable Apps – Avoiding The Pitfalls Of EDA Frameworks.

Cadence’s Frank Schirmeister contends that designers need to look beyond just power, performance and cost, in How The Internet Of Things Drives More Diverse Design Considerations.

Arteris’ Kurt Shuler argues that ‘fixing it in software’ adds bloat and that transistor scaling slows things down, in All You Need Is Cache (Coherency) To Scale Next-Gen SoC Performance.

ARM’s Nigel Stephens explains what vector processing has to do with big data and why it’s so important, in New Ways To Scale Performance.

NetSpeed Systems’ Rajesh Ramanujam drills into the value of last level cache, in Got System Cache?

Synopsys’ Malte Doerper observes that keeping the right focus maximizes virtual prototyping ROI, in The Forest And The Trees.

eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna contends that when it comes to automation, things are just getting started, in Automation: When Should We Stop?

Mentor Graphics’ Kathy Tufto finds debug approaches are changing to handle the amount of data produced by multicore systems, in The Rise Of Complex Debug On Heterogeneous Multicore SoCs.

Aldec intern Zach Nelson provides a student’s view on utilizing FPGA boards in education, in It’s Time To Get Your University In Sync With Zynq.