Top Stories

RISC-V Verification Challenges Spread
Continuous design innovation adds to verification complexity, and pushes more companies to actually do it.

Stretching Engineers
The role of engineers is changing, and they need to be picking up new skills if they are to remain valuable team players. There are several directions they could go in.

Multicore Debug Evolves To The System-Level
Complexity is making this process more difficult, but new and better approaches are being developed.

Blogs

Technology Editor Brian Bailey recounts how getting sound to your ear wirelessly has been a long journey, The Crazy Evolution Of Earbuds.

Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister foresees that early and continuous integration is poised to shift development efforts left and to reduce overall development effort significantly, Industry Transformations In 2021 And Beyond.

Codasip’s Roddy Urquhart explains what IP licensees are really paying for, in Open Source Vs. Commercial RISC-V Licensing Models.

OneSpin’s Rob van Blommestein wants you to put your skills to the test with a new puzzle, in A Tale Of Two Challenges: From Space Exploration To Unlocking Your Vision.

Mentor’s James Paris and Armen Asatryan dig into why the ability to transfer data across the entire design flow is crucial to efficient design methodologies, Optimizing Tool Integration Is Essential To Design Success.

Synopsys’s Arun Venkatachar and Stelios Diamantidis predict architecture-aware design tools, reinforcement learning, and more trends for the next year in AI, in 5 Predictions For AI Innovation In 2021.