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September 8, 2017

How HLS is giving shape to glasses-free 3DTV

High level synthesis (HLS) was adopted to realize innovative display IP as developed by a small core engineering team.
August 31, 2017
Ashish Darbari is CEO of formal verification consultancy Axiomise.

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.
August 30, 2017
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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.
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August 7, 2017
Pedro Ricardo Miguel

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.
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July 25, 2017
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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.
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July 21, 2017
Ashish Darbari is CEO of formal verification consultancy Axiomise.

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.
July 18, 2017
Richard Solomon, technical marketing manager, Synopsys

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.
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July 11, 2017

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.
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June 29, 2017
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.
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June 16, 2017
Dana Neustadter is a senior manager of product marketing for Synopsys’ Security IP solutions.

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.
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