Real Intent tries to shift left on DFT
Real Intent has launched a DFT tool intended to relax the bottlenecks that occur as an SoC project moves into its final phase ahead of tapeout.
Tech Design Forum Briefing
Briefing Authors
Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey has been a technology journalist for 20 years. His work has also appeared in EETimes, Red Herring and specialist journals published by the Financial Times.
Luke Collins
Luke Collins is a freelance technology journalist with 22 years’ experience. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Times in the UK, and co-founded the IP9x series of conferences.
Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards has spent two decades covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology.
Coverage without tears
A technical paper originally presented at DVCon USA 2020 simplifies the creation of coverage strategies using manual, automated and verification IP components.
IEDM plans for San Francisco in December
The IEEE plans to stage the 66th International Electron Device Meeting as a physical event in mid-December.
DVCon 2020 to repeat sessions online
DVCon US is to repeat sessions online from today until the middle of August, with exclusive access to registered attendees through early June.
Nanometer scaling puts focus on power at VLSI in June
Adaptive power-aware clocking and buried rails are among the techniques to be explored at the 2020 VLSI Symposia.
Parasitic extraction to guide capacitor usage in RF SoCs
A white paper details the parasitic extraction technology needed to help design high-performance RF SoCs.
Coronavirus Resources: Mentor
Live and on-demand videos as well as You Tube ‘tips and techniques’ clips form part of a wide ‘work at home’ support package from Mentor.
The price of reliability is constant vigilance
Papers presented at the recent IRPS conference showed the growing importance of lifetime monitoring to the problem of handling components as they age.
Ultrawide neural engine fills a hole
Centaur opted for a superwide SIMD engine in an accelerator for a multicore x86 aimed at edge server applications that could take full advantage of spare die area.
Coronavirus: DAC 2020 goes virtual
Leading electronic system design conference confirms move online this July with Covid-19 restrictions and concerns expected to persist.