Power Exploration: MLB World Series, Bumgarner, And Box Scores


The San Francisco Giants are fresh off their third Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series win in the last 5 years. That's notable in itself, but then consider Madison Bumgarner, the starting pitcher for the Giants who was named the 2014 World Series MVP. Bumgarner finished this year’s series with a 2-0 record, one five-inning save (game seven) and 0.43 ERA in three appearances, highlighting... » read more

Tech Talk: Power Optimization II


Solaiman Rahim, senior director of engineering at Atrenta, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about where to put your efforts to reap the greatest rewards in power reduction and optimization. This is the second of two parts. [youtube vid=OWyzIyEH_pQ] Part one can be viewed here. » read more

Tech Talk: Power Optimization


Solaiman Rahim, senior director of engineering at Atrenta, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about where to put your efforts to reap the greatest rewards in power reduction and optimization. [youtube vid=czK60j65JLo] » read more

Reducing And Optimizing Power


While power optimization/reduction techniques such as clock gating do help engineering teams improve designs from a power perspective, more can be done. In fact, there are tools and methodologies under development to incorporate power in a more meaningful way. Part of that involves accurately pinpointing what designers should be looking for. “If you look at academia or research that has... » read more

With Low-Power Comes Great Responsibility


Recent trends in the consumer electronics market show a demand for short, slim, and light-weight but powerful devices (with the only exception being displays, which are getting larger). Therefore area, timing, and power have all become “critical” to design; whereas in the past, one was prioritized over the others depending on design requirements. However, power is the dominant factor tod... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 11


Synopsys’ Brent Gregory has developed a career growth checklist for computer science majors. They should hang this in the hallway at universities. Cadence’s Brian Fuller interviews Saar Drimer, a UK hardware engineer who has been experimenting with odd-shaped PCBs. According to Drimer, 45-degree angles aren’t always optimal. But what happens to all the expensive tools everyone has bee... » read more

Door Busters In Low Power Optimization


The holiday season is upon us, notably a shortened gift buying season at that, which for some only adds to the anxiety felt at this time of year. Many shoppers are out there searching for a door buster deal on that “hot item,” but choices must be made on where to allocate one’s time. Should one stop with the door buster deals or take the time to look further for more practical or traditio... » read more

Power Optimization Considered


The explosive emergence of hand-held computing and entertainment devices fuels an ever-increasing demand for longer battery life. In fact, 70% of all new hardware development is targeted toward mobile devices. Ancillary to this phenomenon, technology scaling has increased the number of transistors that can be packed per unit area. More and more functionality can be put into electronic devices. ... » read more

Lightening The Information Overload


We live in an age where it’s very easy to suffer from information overload — even when that information leads to better designs. Power optimization tools have been very well received in the market, with almost every major electronics company using these tools and seeing the benefits. Yet, if a power optimization tool shows you everything you can do to improve your design, it’s too much... » read more

Power Optimization Requires Higher-Level Thinking


By Ann Steffora Mutschler With consumer demand—much of it for power sensitive mobile devices—driving the bulk of semiconductor design activity, it would seem obvious that the way chips are designed would have changed to reflect that. But have they? From an EDA perspective, the term ‘system level’ is used to mean ‘product level’ but this may not be enough, especially when it come... » read more

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