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What hardware designers can learn from software verification techniques such as agile, behaviour-driven development, code coverage and zero known defect strategies

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

Software for energy-harvesting designs needs to cope with sudden power failures. FRAM storage can reduce the power and performance penalties of full resets.

ARM has revealed a number of details of the microarchitecture that underpins its flagship Cortex-A72 as the processor moves towards its production release.

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

We are moving towards a "continuum of compute", ARM CEO Simon Segars said at CDNLive Silicon Valley, a trend that will reshape design.

Understanding design trade-offs can help achieve the correct balance of functionality, cost, and time to market, says design consultancy chief

Combining assertion-based verification techniques with emulation makes for easier debug, better coverage and greater functional efficiency.

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

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