EDA Edition
Eight requirements for 3D-IC design
Many design teams are looking at ways in which they can make use of 3D integration. Here are eight requirements for an effective 3D-IC design flow.Recent EDA Articles
EDA Expert Blog Posts
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Building an RTL sign-off flow
RTL sign-off strategies ease SoC design and IP integration by enabling early analysis and optimization of CDC, power, X propagation, timing, and resetability issues.
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Better analysis helps improve design quality
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IP-to-SoC prototyping demands consistency
Guides
Real-valued or wreal modelling
Real-valued modelling provides a way of speeding up the simulation of SoCs with significant analog content through the use of discrete-event solvers.
System virtual prototyping
The technique enables early software development and hardware/software co-design strategies before a project is more rigidly defined in RTL.
Updated: 2.5D-IC, 3D-IC, and 5.5D-IC – integration in the third dimension
A guide to emerging 3D integration techniques for ICs, including a look at various approaches, and some of the tools and standards issues involved.
PCB Edition
Keeping high-speed designs clean with ERC
Electrical rule checks (ERC) are now available to deal with increasing PCB design complexity, speed project delivery and protect the intellectual property within them.Recent PCB Articles
PCB Expert Blog Posts
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Focus on product creation for effective design
An increasingly important concept in design is that of product creation. An approach based on product creation looks beyond chip or board design.
Guides
Side-channel attacks
A side-channel attack is a form of reverse engineering that takes advantage of the information leakage from electronic circuitry. And it is a major risk to design security.
Mechanical CAD integration
MCAD integration provides the means for designers to test the mechanical compatibility of a PCB design – for cooling performance as well as whether the layout will fit into an enclosure without problems.
Embedded Edition
Knock down the wall to SoC integration
SoC integration can be accelerated by using virtualization to make the benefits of emulation more accessible to both hardware and software engineers.Recent Embedded Articles
Embedded Expert Blog Posts
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The rush to open source tools
Mind how you go. The only truly free thing about open source tools is the download itself. There is, however, a ‘third way’, matching professional support to these often useful options.
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Dev kits bring virtual prototyping to everyone
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Embedded systems are evolving, but where are the tools?
Guides
The Yocto Project
Yocto is a project that aims to provide the open source building blocks necessary for custom embedded Linux implementations
Sleep modes
For a growing number of applications, leakage is a major component of the lifetime energy consumption of an MCU, making it essential to shut the processor core down when it is not needed. Sleep modes help control that.