Special Report
Chiplets Still A Challenge With UCIe 2.0
New connectivity standard brings performance improvements and a bunch of new features, but it may take years before they are adopted — and still may not result in an open chiplet market.
Top Stories
Chip Architectures Becoming Much More Complex With Chiplets
Options for how to build systems increase, but so do integration issues.
Design Customization Puts Heavy Burden On Verification
Configurability causes an explosion in verification complexity, but the upside is verification engineers are gaining in stature.
Startup Challenges In A Changing EDA World
Without innovation, it may not be possible to fully utilize technological advances.
Tech Talk Video
Livelocks And Deadlocks In NoCs
How to prevent complex systems from freezing up.
Opinion
Technology Editor Brian Bailey contends that predictions should be based on pain, not reflect innovation or breakthroughs, in What’s Missing From Predictions.
Sponsor Blogs
Synopsys’ Almitra Pradhan explains how symbolic simulation can help avoid power leaks, power-ground DC paths, and missing level shifters, in Complete Transistor Level Electrical Checks With Formal Analysis.
Arteris’ Andy Nightingale digs into packet-based data transfer mechanisms and how they enable higher bandwidth, better routing optimization, and reduced congestion, in From DIY To Advanced NoC Solutions: The Future Of MCU Design.
Keysight’s Jenn Mullen details ways to future-proof AI data center designs now that computational power has become the modern world’s most precious resource, in Gold In The Machine: Scaling Infrastructure For The Age Of AI.
Eliyan’s Ramin Farjadrad and Syrus Ziai zero in on efficiency gains versus the scale of personalization, in AI Infrastructure At A Crossroads.
Siemens’ John Ferguson and Lei Ling show how to identify and run only the design rules that are local in scope to reduce runtime and hardware requirements, in Accelerate IC Design With Shift-Left DRC.
Cadence’s Vinod Khera explores how to accurately estimate yields and identify worst-case scenarios with fewer simulations and less time, in Fast Monte Carlo Simulations For Timing Variation Analysis.
Keysight’s Brad Jolly find the growing internet of medical things (IoMT) has unique definitions and testing requirements, in What IoMT Really Stands For.
Sponsor White Papers
The Digital Twin Technology Applied to 6G Communication
6G digital twin: evolution, applications and architectural integration.
Microsoft Accelerates DRC With Shift-Left Verification
Maximizing check coverage with minimum compute hardware.
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