Top Stories

Bridging Hardware And Software
Part 1: Different goals and methodologies have long divided hardware and software engineering teams. Some companies have solved these issues, others are working on them.

Verification Grows Up
Making sure a chip will work properly is the fastest-growing aspect of the entire design flow. What do experts expect to see going forward?

Why Test Is Changing
As IC vendors push into new markets, test is becoming much more important.

Reflections On 2015
Part 2: Who got it right, who was wrong, and what really happened in between.

Blogs

Editor in Chief Ed Sperling finds acquisitions and the leading edge of design defined 2015, but other changes are ahead, in The Biggest Stories.

Technology Editor Brian Bailey observes that every year, smart people come up with new and inventive ways to celebrate the holidays, in Inventing Christmas.

Mentor Graphics’ Warren Kurisu looks at the challenges in architecting new IoT devices, in The Latest Power Management Techniques For Wearable Devices.

Synopsys’ Tom De Schutter uncorks poll results about software and virtual prototyping, in The “Virtual” Year Recap.

Aldec’s Henry Chan digs into why the Universal Verification Methodology is so important, in U.V.M. Spells Relief.

Arteris’ Kurt Shuler zeroes in on why physically aware NoC IP is critical in complex designs, in How To Reduce Timing Closure Headaches.

Agnisys’ Anupam Bakshi identifies the challenges in moving from a static spec to a live one, in The Beginning.

eSilicon’s Mike Gianfagna examines how the basic high school science project has changed, in Science Fair—Redefined.

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister predicts a key breakthrough next year in the ability to seamlessly glide through abstraction, in Outlook 2016 — The Year Of The Horizontal And Vertical Flow Integration.

XtremeEDA’s Neil Johnson questions whether a competition is brewing between shift left and agile, both of which are amorphous strategies, in A History Of (Premature) Optimization.