Special Report
Time To Market Concerns Worsen
Perpetual changes throughout design cycles have turned a manageable problem into an unpredictable one.
Top Stories
How To Cut Verification Costs For IoT
The verification problem needs to be looked at differently for IoT devices, but not everyone agrees on where to start or how it should be done.
Challenges Increase for IP At Advanced Nodes
Advanced process nodes bring a number of technical challenges for IP design and reuse.
IoT Demands Correct By Construction Assembly
Three months for an IoT design may not be aggressive enough. Think one and two months.
Productivity And The IoT
Chips have to get to work quickly and cheaply for the IoT to work. How do we get there?
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling contends that IC flows and business both need to be re-architected, but it’s not clear what the order should be, in Which Comes First?
Technology Editor Brian Bailey points out that education is the main limiting factor for growth of EDA, in Conferences, Education And The Press.
Mentor’s Jon McDonald observes that hardware and software engineers often lack visibility into the impact of their decisions on system power consumption, in Designing In The Dark.
Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter finds three primary use cases where hybrid approaches provide significant benefits in Leveraging Virtual Prototypes For Hybrid Emulation.
Sonics’ Randy Smith argues that hardware designers need to look at Agile software development to see what can be applied, in Is IC Design Methodology At The Breaking Point?
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister notes that lots of innovation will be required across multiple ecosystems, keeping us busy (and employed) for years to come, in New Tools Enabling The Internet Of Things.
eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna reports that schedule and time to market topped the business challenges in a new survey, while complexity and performance topped the technical challenges, in I Have Seen The Future.
Open-Silicon’s Swamy Irrinki writes that new methodologies and approaches are needed to speed up the process, in Evaluation Platforms Key To Complex IP Integration.
