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Papers presented at the recent IRPS conference showed the growing importance of lifetime monitoring to the problem of handling components as they age.

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.

Leading electronic system design conference confirms move online this July with Covid-19 restrictions and concerns expected to persist.

Keynotes at this year’s IRPS conference focused on the way in which scaling is forcing changes to the way that the reliability aspects of semiconductors are examined.

High-level synthesis is playing another important role in the matching of AI algorithms to necessarily application-specific designs.

The PCB and wire harness design specialist has posted an online blog with tips and advice on using and licensing its tools for home use.

The verification specialist is adding more online resources to help engineers working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Updates to existing designs are often error-prone, though safety tolerances are necessarily tightening. This four-step strategy can help.

Traditional approaches to via insertion to meet reliability and yield at advanced nodes are giving way to necessary automation.

Intel describes active countermeasures for physical attacks at CICC as part of a trend towards more adaptive IoT silicon.