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Transforming Silicon Bring-Up
The role of silicon for verification and validation is changing. While there is the desire to Shift Left, silicon also has become a valuable verification engine.

Thoroughly Verifying Complex SoCs
With so many variables, verifying complex, heterogenous designs is a task with many tentacles.

Optimizing Hardware Faster
Silexica’s CEO talks about why high-level synthesis has become so important in cars, financial trading, robotics and aerospace.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling argues that chip architectures need to span time as well as space, in Designing In 4D.

Technology Editor Brian Bailey sees little point in creating the best possible device if slightly better is good enough, in Better, Not Best.

Synopsys’ Himanshu Bhatt explains the stages of a modern low-power development and verification flow, in Static Verification Of Low Power Designs.

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister contends that the importance of data is changing traditional value creation in electronics and forcing recalculations of return on investment, in Verification In The Era Of Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning.

Aldec’s Alex Gnusin makes the case for revealing finite state machine design bugs at the earliest stages of code development, in Developing Robust Finite State Machines Code With Lint Tools.

Mentor’s Abdellah Bakhali describes why integrating disparate I/O ring rules from various IPs creates a design with robust reliability, in A Reliable I/O Ring For A Reliable SoC.