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Keeping up with the bandwidth demands of embedded displays

Increasing resolutions and rising frame rates are making it more challenging than ever to drive embedded displays effectively.

Guides

  • Portable stimulus

    EDA - Standards, Technologies

    Accellera’s Portable Stimulus standard aims to improve verification efficiency and the reuse of test IP across the entire design life cycle.

  • Dynamic power optimization

    EDA - Techniques

    FinFETs present a number of problems with respect to dynamic power consumption. Design techniques are being re-evaluated to deal with the issue.

  • Monolithic 3DIC for SoC

    EDA - Technologies

    Monolithic 3DIC integration may provide a viable alternative to conventional 2D scaling for SoCs if manufacturing problems can be overcome.

Expert Insights

Guido Groeseneken

Reliability research helps to create new technologies

Guido Groeseneken is an Imec fellow, researching advanced devices and the reliability physics of sub-10nm CMOS technologies.

Insights from research into reliability at Imec led to self-learning chips, security technologies, and finFET biosensors.

Ashish Darbari

Doc Formal: My 10 golden rules

Ashish Darbari sets out the fundamental qualities of a successful formal verification project.

Lauro Rizzatti

How hardware emulation helps drones take flight

In an exclusive interview, Lauro Rizzatti discusses the increasing verification challenges for drone SoCs with Bo Shen, founder of fabless specialist Artosyn.

EDA

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    Article 3DIC technology provides performance boosts

    3D integration technology has split into a number of different approaches, each of which brings a different combination of benefits in terms of performance.

  2. Expert Insight A better way to merge design files for physical verification
  3. Expert Insight Optimizing power and performance trade-offs in CNN implementations for embedded vision

PCB

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    Article How Channel Operating Margin helps Gigabit Ethernet PCB analysis

    The COM methodology is being extended and more widely adopted across high-speed designs thanks to deeper tool integration.

  2. Expert Insight The Wally Rhines interview – Part Two: AI, automotive and security
  3. Article The basic PCB rules for a successful IoT design

IP

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    Article Driving 4K smartphone and AR/VR device displays

    How to combine a display processing unit from one company and a MIPI Display Serial Interface solution from another to build 4K embedded displays for smartphones and AR/VR devices.

  2. Expert Insight Bringing AI into our lives
  3. Article Using hardware secure modules to protect SoCs

Embedded

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    Article Choosing between DDR4 and HBM in memory-intensive applications

    Exploring the tradeoffs between implementing DDR4 and HBM for high-bandwidth memory subsystems.

  2. Expert Insight Fighting the war of escalation in embedded systems security
  3. Article Case study: Verifying and optimizing software for power on SoCs

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