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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.

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

Richard Solomon

Using CCIX to implement cache coherent heterogeneous multiprocessor systems

Richard Solomon, technical marketing manager, Synopsys

CCIX is a cache coherency protocol, based on PCI Express, for interconnecting high-performance heterogenous multiprocessing systems.

Gordon Cooper

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.

Dana Neustadter

Protecting content transmitted over USB Type-C connections

SoC developers who want to use USB Type-C in their designs will have to implement HDCP 2.2 content protection so that the target devices will be able to play protected content.

EDA

  1. Ashish Darbari is director of product management at OneSpin Solutions.
    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.

  2. Expert Insight The Wally Rhines interview – Part Two: AI, automotive and security
  3. Expert Insight The Wally Rhines interview – Part One: Mentor as a Siemens business

PCB

  1. Danit Atar is a senior marketing programs specialist at Mentor Graphics
    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.

  2. Article Noise and manufacturing concerns control design for power-module makers
  3. Expert Insight Where tools end and best practices begin

IP

  1. Michael Thompson is the senior manager of product marketing for the DesignWare ARC processors at Synopsys
    Expert Insight Building processors to enable intuitive human-machine interaction

    The increasing complexity of human-machine interfaces is challenging processor designers to produce the necessary performance within a limited power budget

  2. Expert Insight Building faster data centers with 25G Ethernet
  3. Article Teaching computers to recognize a smile (or frown, or grimace or…)

Embedded

  1. Visual: cars speeding along a road
    Article Accelerating the development of powertrain ECUs with virtual hardware

    How virtual hardware can speed up many aspects of automotive system development, including architectural analysis, software development and verification

  2. Expert Insight An accelerated approach to achieving automotive safety with ASIL D
  3. Article Reducing the power consumption of USB Type-C digital headsets

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