domain-specific architecture

At the recent VLSI Symposium, Google vice president Parthasarathy Ranganathan described the importance of co-design and the software stack in its data-center designs.

As the project that funded OpenRoad draws to a close, experts pondered its wider future at the 59th DAC.

In the first of a weekly series on China's evolving design sector, we look at how the Mentor President and CEO identifies some of the key drivers.