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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.-
Yield is money – and other truths of diagnosis-driven yield analysis
Silicon photonics moves out of the shadows
How HLS is giving shape to glasses-free 3DTV
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
Making security a profit center for silicon
The assumption has been that extra security eats into profit margins. But with some lateral thinking it can actually improve the bottom line.
Doc Formal: The evolution of formal verification – Part Two
Doc Formal concludes his introduction to formal verification with a practitioner's view of the technology.
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.
EDA
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Article Your next node: find lithography issues early with DTCO
Pattern-based design/technology co-optimization (DTCO) estimates lithographic difficulty during the early stages of a new process technology node.
- Article Automating test from IP to SoC levels with portable stimulus
- Expert Insight Doc Formal: The evolution of formal verification – Part One
PCB
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Expert Insight The Wally Rhines interview – Part Two: AI, automotive and security
This second part looks at Mentor’s views on flow neutrality, how DRS360 was born, machine learning and the threat from embedded Trojans.
- Article The basic PCB rules for a successful IoT design
- Expert Insight A reliability checklist for the Connected World
IP
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Article Combining USB Type-C and DisplayPort support in portable implementations
Using USB Type-C connectors to combine both USB-C 3.1 and DisplayPort data streams, to support data, audio, video and power connections on a single port
- Expert Insight Using CCIX to implement cache coherent heterogeneous multiprocessor systems
- Expert Insight High-resolution visual recognition needs high-performance CNNs
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.
- Article Staging virtual prototype bring-up for faster software development
- Expert Insight Building faster data centers with 25G Ethernet
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