Special Report
An Inside Look At The GlobalFoundries-IBM Deal
Who gets what, why it’s so important, and what questions remain unanswered.
Top Stories
The Internet Of Cores
Plug and play compatibility is back on the table, but will it work? It depends who you ask.
Conflicting Needs For IoT Edge Designs
Custom designs are needed for power, but economies of scale are required to control costs.
Making Models Interoperable
Behavioral modeling remains in limbo as confusion about making levels of abstraction interoperate continues, but there is still room for automation.
Measuring Verification Accuracy
When is enough verification good enough to tape out?
Hybrid Verification: The Only Way Forward
Experts at the table, part 1: Combining virtual prototypes with emulation and FPGAs is the only way to perform SoC verification—and they have to be in a single environment.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling argues that as older process technologies become more useful, it’s time to clean them up, in Something Old, Something New.
Technology Editor Brian Bailey observes that time can be too accurate, or not accurate enough, but it is rarely right, in Standard Time And The Day Of Two Noons.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister contends that the requirements for the next era of verification have been set, making for an interesting 2015, in The Next Big Shift In Verification.
Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter unveils survey results showing that software complexity is the top software development challenge, followed closely by late availability of hardware, in 3,000 Reasons To Look Into Virtual Prototyping.
Open-Silicon’s Manohar Ayyagiri compares HMC 2.0 bandwidth and power to DDR4, in Hybrid Memory Cube — Ready For Prime Time.
eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna contends that online quoting is a game changer because it allows any size company to be taken seriously by the supply chain, in The People Have Spoken, The Future Is Now.
