Top Stories
Have Processor Counts Stalled?
Have chips reached a plateau for the number of processor cores they can effectively make use of? Possibly yes, until you change the programming model.
New Uses For Assertions
Proponents point to applications in system reliability, AI, and data analytics.
Productivity Keeping Pace With Complexity
Without productivity gains, design size and complexity would face huge headwinds. Those gains come from a diverse set of improvements.
Blogs
Technology Editor Brian Bailey examines what benchmarking at the embedded level would look like, in Optimizing What Exactly?
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister sees networks adapting to meet the upcoming explosion of latency-sensitive data, in Hyperscale And Edge Computing: The What, Where And How.
Mentor’s Raghav Katoch points to the importance of avoiding time-consuming and error-filled LVS on early, incomplete designs, in Innovative Strategies Are Improving Early Design Circuit Verification.
Synopsys’ Joe Mallett warns that single-clock design is not always as easy as it seems, in Verification Of Multi-Cycle Paths And False Paths.
Codasip’s Roddy Urquhart digs into how processors can be complex in many different ways, depending on the needs of a project, in Defining Processor Core Complexity.
Valtrix’s Shubhodeep Roy Choudhury argues for using software-driven stimulus to meet the verification demands of complex SoC designs and tight time-to-market constraints, in Importance Of A Functional Verification Methodology.
