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Automating test from IP to SoC levels with portable stimulus
This introduction to the new Accellera standard includes a demo of portable stimulus in use to fully verify a DMA engine.-
Hardware emulation gets smarter with save-and-restore for debug
Staging virtual prototype bring-up for faster software development
The basic PCB rules for a successful IoT design
Guides
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Portable stimulus
Accellera’s Portable Stimulus standard aims to improve verification efficiency and the reuse of test IP across the entire design life cycle.
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Dynamic power optimization
FinFETs present a number of problems with respect to dynamic power consumption. Design techniques are being re-evaluated to deal with the issue.
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Monolithic 3DIC for SoC
Monolithic 3DIC integration may provide a viable alternative to conventional 2D scaling for SoCs if manufacturing problems can be overcome.
Expert Insights
Supporting higher-resolution displays without major system redesign
Using VESA's Display Stream Compression (DSC) standard to enable visually lossless performance and low latency for ultra-high-definition displays.
Doc Formal: The evolution of formal verification – Part One
Doc Formal begins a two-part series by describing the solid and well-established foundations of formal verification.
Using CCIX to implement cache coherent heterogeneous multiprocessor systems
CCIX is a cache coherency protocol, based on PCI Express, for interconnecting high-performance heterogenous multiprocessing systems.
EDA
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Expert Insight Introducing Doc Formal: the journey so far
Our new columnist introduces himself and traces the progress of formal verification over the last two decades. Join the discussion.
- Expert Insight The Wally Rhines interview – Part Two: AI, automotive and security
- Expert Insight The Wally Rhines interview – Part One: Mentor as a Siemens business
PCB
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Expert Insight A reliability checklist for the Connected World
Reliability is growing to match security as a key challenge for PCB design. These tools and techniques will help you rise to it.
- Article Noise and manufacturing concerns control design for power-module makers
- Expert Insight Where tools end and best practices begin
IP
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Expert Insight High-resolution visual recognition needs high-performance CNNs
Quadrupling the performance of a dedicated CNN engine within an embedded vision processing core brings more complex graph processing within reach.
- Expert Insight Protecting content transmitted over USB Type-C connections
- Expert Insight Building processors to enable intuitive human-machine interaction
Embedded
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Article Applying sub-threshold circuit techniques to IoT device design
Operating at near-threshold or sub-threshold voltages reduces static and dynamic power consumption, at the cost of design complexity.
- Expert Insight Building faster data centers with 25G Ethernet
- Article Accelerating the development of powertrain ECUs with virtual hardware
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