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What’s So Important About Processor Extensibility?
Designers must carefully weigh the gains against the costs, many of which are not immediately obvious.
FPGA Prototyping Complexity Rising
Partitioning of blocks into manageable pieces is becoming harder, but new tools and approaches are showing promise.
What Will The Next-Gen Verification Flow Look Like?
Experts at the Table: Machine learning is an essential element for dealing with complexity and shorter design cycles, but it may require a different mindset for engineers.
Blogs
EDA Technology Editor Brian Bailey asks what’s really holding back fundamental changes to the way we design chips, in Constrained Innovation.
Imagination’s Marc Canel advocates building security into the very foundation of new automotive platforms, in Why Cyberattacks Will Be No Match For Autonomous Vehicles.
Aldec’s Krzysztof Szczur explains why the extra effort in connecting an emulator with an external environment pays off over the long run, in Connecting Emulated Designs To Real PCIe Devices.
Codasip’s Roddy Urquhart explains how to get better performance by creating a processor core with custom instructions targeted to address bottlenecks, in Domain-Specific Processors Enable More Than Moore.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister explores what the new generation of mobile device users would like to see in upcoming technologies, in Digital Immersion: The Next Step Towards The Future Of Mobile Devices And Connectivity.
OneSpin’s Rob van Blommestein examines the challenges and solutions when the consequences of a faulty chip can be deadly, in FPGA Equivalence Checking For A Nuclear Safety Controller.
Mentor’s Fady Fouad, Esraa Swillam, and Jeff Wilson propose an automated flow to insert correct-by-construction vias as needed to reduce IR drop and EM issues, in Lower Resistance Protects Against Failure In IC Design.
Synopsys’ Iain Singleton lays out the critical considerations for achieving a quantifiable measure of functional verification completeness, in The Seven Steps Of Formal Signoff.
