Expert Insights

The wearables market is booming. Successful development depends on assembling the right software and hardware tools. Here's a primer on what to look for.

A look at some of the quality and safety requirements that must be met when developing and applying semiconductor IP to the automotive sector.

How agile methodologies can be applied to personal and team practice in IC design, including for developing cloud accelerators at Microsoft

Dedicated processors using convolutional neural networking techniques bring advanced vision techniques such as object recognition to embedded systems.

A look at the challenges of designing chips for the Internet of Things, or IoT, and some of the responses to those challenges

FInFET memories have different defects than those based on planar transistors. Here's how to test and repair them.

Moving to a finFET process means considering process readiness, cost and yield, as well as the traditional power, performance and area advantages

Altera uses standardized design flows to help integrate Intel foundry rules, cut time to tape-out - and speed the evolution of its design flows.

The encryption chain for today's highly collaborative designs needs to be managed with care.

Lithography is only just beginning to play a role in cell IP selection but early analysis already matters.