Top Stories

Is Verification Falling Behind?
It’s becoming harder for tools and methodologies to keep up with increasing design complexity. How to prevent your design from being compromised.

Mixing Interface Protocols
Making sure a device can interface with a variety of protocols is becoming a major headache.

Custom Vs. Non-Custom Design
Experts at the table, part 1: Decisions about whether to customize vary by market, the size of companies, and in some cases whether off-the-shelf parts are even available.

Blogs

Editor in Chief Ed Sperling contends that a fundamental shift is underway in system-level design, in Preparing For Bigger Changes Ahead.

Technology Editor Brian Bailey looks back at which subjects garnered the most reader interest in 2017, in And The Winner Is…

Mentor’s Ron Press and Vidya Neerkundar show how to improve the rate of success in the DFT flow, in Smarter DFT Infrastructure And Automation Emerge As Keys To Managing DFT Design Scaling.

Synopsys’ Malte Doerper examines ways to improve model quality with Agile methods and code analysis, in Bulletproofing Virtual Prototypes.

eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna predicts that in 2018 there will be a lot more advanced ASICs targeting high-performance computing, deep learning and 5G infrastructure, in What’s Next?

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister points to smarter ways to use verification, in Design Chains Will Drive The Top 5 EDA Trends In 2018.

OneSpin’s Saša Stamenković identifies a different kind of challenge for formal engineers, in Using Formal To Solve The World’s Hardest Sudoku.

Arm’s Ronan Synnott explains how to use the built-in performance analyzer in DS-5, in Using Streamline With Fast Models And Fixed Virtual Platforms.

Aldec’s Henry Chan digs into FPGA prototyping and how to get them up and running more quickly, in Partitioning With Ease.

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