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Blog Review: Nov. 12
By Ed Sperling - 12 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

ARM's Eoin McCann provides a primer to software-defined networking, which uses a higher level of abstraction to create a centralized controller. This is a new twist on networking—with a bit of deja vu thrown in. Mentor's Matthew Ballance points to a perfect storm for verification—shrinking features, more layers and more embedded processors. He has some tips for how to deal with all of t... » read more

More Things Are Critical Systems
By Ed Sperling - 10 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Defining a critical system used to be pretty obvious. It was something that could affect the health and safety of people, such as the chip inside a pacemaker or insulin pump, a car's braking system or an airplane's guidance system. But as more devices are connected together, that definition is changing and expanding. More devices are now considered critical, such as a connected baby monitor ... » read more

Designing For Energy Efficiency
By Ed Sperling - 06 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Swiss watchmakers have nothing to worry about for the moment. As top-name companies crowd into the wearable market with full-featured watches, limits on battery life and frequent charges undoubtedly will limit their popularity. Smart watches look cool or clunky, depending upon your perspective, but none of them lasts long enough between charges to be a serious market contender. That's certai... » read more

Are More Processor Cores Better?
By Brian Bailey - 06 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Up until the early 2000s, each generation of processor was faster, used more exotic architectures, had deeper pipelines, used more transistors, ran at higher clock frequencies and consumed more power. In fact power was rising faster than performance and led to the extrapolation that within a few generations, processors would run as hot as nuclear reactors. Something had to change, and that c... » read more

Keeping Up With The Productivity Challenge
By Brian Bailey - 06 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 3

Until recently, EDA software rode the coattails of increasing processor performance as part of its drive to continue providing faster and more powerful development software to the people designing, among other things, the next generation of faster processors. It was a fortuitous ring. Around the turn of the century, with the migration to multi-core computing systems, all of that changed. In ord... » read more

Tech Talk: Power Sign-Off
By Ed Sperling - 06 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Calvin Chow, area technical manager at Ansys, talks about power sign-off for complex SoCs at advanced nodes, including early stage prototyping, the importance of context, accurate power modeling of sub-blocks, and simulation of power-delivery networks. [youtube vid=MN4TjZ3dHVk] » read more

IP Design Essentials For Power Integrity
By Annapoorna Krishnaswamy - 06 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Smart connectivity is the new mantra of today – the ability to connect to anything, anywhere and at any time. With such technology enablement, low power is not a choice but an expectation. Whether it is a connected device, or a system that is part of the infrastructure, they are driven to integrate various functionality such as high speed computing, high-speed memory, memory interfaces, radio... » read more

Power And Noise Integrity For Analog / Mixed-Signal Designs
By Ansys - 05 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

The convergence of advance process technology, increasing levels of integration, and higher operating frequencies pose considerable challenge to IP designers whose circuits are required to function in variety of conditions. Full-custom and mixed signal circuit designers ensure that their circuits will function by simulating for various operating conditions (PVT, input stimuli, etc). One key asp... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 5
By Ed Sperling - 05 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Brian Fuller zeroes in on ISO 26262, the automotive safety standard that's supposed to guard against nightmare failures in your car. Hopefully it works. They won't protect against cyber terrorism, though. Rambus' Aharon Etengoff takes a look at the challenges of connected vehicles. Mentor's J. Van Domelen looks at NASA's increased reliance on commercial partners, which has not b... » read more

Blog Review: Oct. 29
By Ed Sperling - 29 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Ansys' Bill Vandermark uncovers the top engineering articles for the week. Check out the tractor beam in Australia that can push and pull objects and Naim's soundbar that may act like a gateway drug to bankruptcy. It may sound counterintuitive, but ARM's Jakub Lamik draws a direct link between bandwidth consumption and power consumption and explains that's the case. Samsung's Farhad Tab... » read more

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