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Blog Review: May 31
By Jesse Allen - 31 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Michael White predicts that 10nm will come on the scene in a big way this year with a leap to an estimated 9% foundry market share. At the recent RISC-V Workshop, Cadence's Paul McLellan considers whether fully open-source silicon is really viable. Synopsys' Robert Vamosi investigates the security risks posed by the proliferation of connected aftermarket automotive products and a... » read more

RISC-V Pros And Cons
By Ann Mutschler - 29 May, 2017 - Comments: 7

Simpler, faster, lower-power hardware with a free, open, simple instruction set architecture? While it sounds too good to be true, efforts are underway to do just that with RISC-V, the instruction-set architecture (ISA) developed by UC Berkeley engineers and now administered by a foundation. It has been known for some time that with [getkc id="74" comment="Moore's Law"] not offering the same... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 26 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Analysis Whither Intel’s Internet of Things efforts? “While Intel's IoT business certainly won't solve its ongoing troubles in the PC and data center markets anytime soon, staying invested in that market will ensure that the chipmaker doesn't miss another major technological shift, as it did with mobile devices about a decade ago,” Leo Sun writes in this analysis. Products Cisco Sys... » read more

Toward Continuous HW-SW Integration
By Ann Mutschler - 25 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Hardware is only as good as the software that runs on it, and as system complexity grows that software is lagging behind. The way to close that gap is to improve the [getkc id="100" kc_name="methodology"] for developing that software in the first place. That includes making sure updates are verified and tested before being pushed out to devices, adding the same kinds of detailed checks that ... » read more

It’s Show Time
By Henry Chan - 25 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

It’s been a busy season. The weather has warmed here in the desert and as the trees and greenery enliven in spring, The whole industry is bursting with activity. From DVCon to the International Symposium on FPGAs in the United States to Embedded World and CTIC in Europe, there have been a number of important developments in verification, embedded systems, and DO-254. The DVCon U.S. Confere... » read more

Capturing The Future, Frame By Frame
By Stephen Barton - 25 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

A lot has changed over the past year, and more changes are on the way. Consider what's happening in API tracing. All of the functions from the Vulkan specification can be traced correctly in MGD. This means that you will be able to see exactly what Vulkan calls your application makes and in what order. You will also be able to see what threads each of these function calls occur in. Figu... » read more

Blog Review: May 24
By Jesse Allen - 24 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Andrew Patterson questions who should have control over who sees the vast amounts of data generated by automobiles and how it is used. In a series of posts, Cadence's Meera Collier considers philosophical questions from the angle of computer science. Synopsys' Eric Huang has a lighthearted look at today's world of robots. Rambus' Aharon Etengoff points to Director of National ... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 19 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Conferences It’s been an action-packed week at Internet of Things World. The show was co-located at the Santa Clara Convention Center with the Connected & Autonomous Vehicles conference. There were lots of deals announced and many products or services debuted at IoT World, which has grown enormously in four years, from 700 attendees at its first event in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2014 to some 14... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 19 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

M&A Consultancy Sondrel acquired IMGworks, formerly the design services unit of Imagination. Sondrel says it plans to focus on design services for ADAS systems, AI, and machine vision and learning devices. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tools Cadence expanded its formal verification platform, JasperGold, adding linting and clock domain crossing apps that address RTL signoff ... » read more

Notes From The Chip Beat
By Mark LaPedus - 18 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Over the last several months, I’ve attended a number of conferences, such as IEDM, SPIE, the FD-SOI Summit and others. At each conference, there is a dizzying amount of information and data. Eventually, some information turns into an article, while most ends up buried in a reporter’s notebook. In any case, here are five observations I’ve made, based on those and other events in the pa... » read more

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