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What Makes A Good Accelerator
Optimizing processor architectures requires a broader understanding of data flow, latency, power and performance.
EDA Cloud Adoption Hits Speed Bumps
What problems are prohibiting semiconductor design moving into the Cloud? Steps are being taken to overcome them.
From Physics To Applications
eSilicon’s CEO zeroes in on the impact of AI and advanced packaging on ASIC design.
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Building AI SoCs
How to develop AI chips when algorithms are changing so quickly.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling observes that the chip industry is finally getting a chance to prove itself on a much bigger scale, in The Race To Design Larger Systems.
Technology Editor Brian Bailey examines the balance between containing verification costs and success rates, in Reduction In First Silicon Success.
Consultant Neil Johnson questions the value of the new Portable Stimulus Standard, in Make-Or-Break Time For Portable Stimulus.
OneSpin’s Tom Anderson looks at what a unified project-level view of verification status brings to the table, in Integrating Results And Coverage From Simulation And Formal.
Synopsys’ John Swanson digs into the value of offloading neural network operations from the processor with optimized hardware functions, in Implementing Mathematical Algorithms In Hardware For Artificial Intelligence.
Mentor’s Megan Marsh and Wei-Lii Tan find that increasingly specialized process technologies mean it’s time to look at new library characterization flows, in Improving Library Characterization Quality And Runtime With Machine Learning.
eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna shows why cables help open a new dimension of backplane design for data center and 5G infrastructure, in High-Speed Serial Comms: Getting There Is Half The Fun.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister contends that collaboration is the way forward for IoT, as evidenced by major partnership announcements, in The Power Of Ecosystems At Arm TechCon 2018.
