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July 19, 2021

Chiplet design raises big questions

Building products using chiplets involves more than treating them as hard IP cores. Many open questions surround the field, explored by panelists in a MEPTEC conference online.
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July 16, 2021

How to meet formal embedded software guidance for medical devices

Vulnerabilities in connected healthcare products have led medical requlators to issue further security recommendations for their design and maintenance.
July 15, 2021

Chiplets to need digital twins for reliability

The added complexity of managing reliability as chiplet-based designs become more common will need to be managed using digital-twin techniques, says a professor working in the field.
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July 14, 2021

Accellera approves IP security-documentation standard

Accellera has approved version 1.0 of the SA-EDI standard, intended to provide a consistent way of describing security concerns for IP cores.
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June 21, 2021

From iterative to in-design DRC and debug for place and route

Learn how Calibre RealTime Digital allows you to identify, explore and fix DRC violations as you go.
June 17, 2021

Standard arrives for thermal simulation data

A de facto standard for exchanging thermal information about designs has become JEDEC standard JEP181.
June 16, 2021

Samsung moves further into 3D for denser flash

Samsung described at VLSI Symposia how it has used two further forms of stacking to increase flash capacity.
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June 15, 2021

Imec cuts transistor gap to less than 20nm with forksheets

Imec showed at VLSI Symposia a process flow that can cut the gap between complementary transistors to less than 20nm.
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June 14, 2021

AI’s design speedups, with and without machine learning

At the VLSI Symposia, researchers described how AI hardware could help dramatically accelerate analog and digital design and not all of it directly through machine learning.
June 9, 2021

Xilinx retools Versal for high-end edge AI

Xilinx has reworked its Versal FPGA for edge-AI applications.
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