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TSMC Explains the Fourth Era of Semiconductor – It’s All About Collaboration

TSMC Explains the Fourth Era of Semiconductor – It’s All About Collaboration
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-13-2021 at 6:00 am

TSMC Explains the Fourth Era of Semiconductor – Its All About Collaboration

The 32nd VLSI Design/CAD Symposium  just occurred in a virtual setting. The theme of the event this year was “ICs Powering Smart Life Innovation”. There were many excellent presentations across analog & RF, EDA & testing, digital & system, and emerging technology. There were also some excellent keynotes, and this… Read More


Synopsys’ Complete 800G Ethernet Solutions

Synopsys’ Complete 800G Ethernet Solutions
by Kalar Rajendiran on 08-12-2021 at 10:00 am

Evolution of Ethernet Speeds

If I ask the question, “What has grown 4,000x over the last twenty-five years?”, most people will start throwing names of some stocks. Although various stock markets have had crazy run ups and yes, there is a stock that has grown 2,500x over that period of time, the answer to the 4,000x question is not a stock. What if I modify the question… Read More


AI Acceleration: Autonomous is Driving

AI Acceleration: Autonomous is Driving
by Manouchehr Rafie on 08-12-2021 at 6:00 am

Figure 5 1

Large numbers of sensors, massive amounts of data, ever-increasing computing power, real-time operation and security concerns required for autonomous vehicles are driving the core of computation from the cloud to the edge of the network. Autonomous vehicles are constantly sensing and sending data on road conditions, location… Read More


Musk’s Massive Mobile Gambit

Musk’s Massive Mobile Gambit
by Roger C. Lanctot on 08-11-2021 at 10:00 am

Musks Massive Mobile Gambit

A few weeks ago Mobile World Congress included among its keynotes a live interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk moderated by Mobile World Live Publisher Justin Springham. The subject was Starlink, the low earth orbit (LEO) constellation intended to deliver global Internet access.

Mobile World Congress Musk keynote interview

Tongue-in-cheek… Read More


Debugging Embedded Software on Veloce

Debugging Embedded Software on Veloce
by Bernard Murphy on 08-11-2021 at 6:00 am

Debugging Embedded Software on Veloce min

Arm provides great support for debugging embedded software in its CoreSight tools, but what support do you have if you’re debugging hardware and software together in a pre-implementation design? In a hardware debugger you have lots of support for hardware views like waveforms and register states. But these aren’t well connected… Read More


The Quest for Bugs: “Shift-Left, Right?”

The Quest for Bugs: “Shift-Left, Right?”
by Bryan Dickman on 08-10-2021 at 10:00 am

Quest for Bugs Shift Left EDA

Shift-left, why?

Shift-left testing is an approach to software and system testing which is performed earlier in the lifecycle (that is, moved left on the project timeline). It is the first half of the “Test early and often” maxim that was coined by Larry Smith in 2001.

It’s now an established idea, much talked about … Read More


On-the-Fly Code Checking Catches Bugs Earlier

On-the-Fly Code Checking Catches Bugs Earlier
by Synopsys on 08-10-2021 at 6:00 am

Euclide GUI

There’s no question that chip designs are getting more complex, driven by the power, performance, and area (PPA) demands of applications like artificial intelligence (AI), automotive, and cloud computing. This complexity, of course, trickles down to the design and testbench code. When engineers can find and fix bugs before… Read More


Executable Specifications Shorten Embedded System Development

Executable Specifications Shorten Embedded System Development
by Tom Simon on 08-09-2021 at 10:00 am

CATIA STIMULUS for Specifications

Even though AI is being used to replace procedural coding for many embedded applications, there is still, and will be for a long time, code that is written manually to deal with complicated inputs to control connected systems. Even in AI based systems there are programmer coded steps for responses to AI identified inputs. All of … Read More


Quantum Computing and Threats to Secure Communication

Quantum Computing and Threats to Secure Communication
by Kalar Rajendiran on 08-09-2021 at 6:00 am

Our Panelists

There is never a dearth of new terms, discoveries and inventions in the technological world. And sometimes existing terms get reinvigorated. And debates ensue. The debaters argue about the plusses and minuses and make some predictions. Such is the case with “Quantum Computing.” I recently watched and listened to a webinar that… Read More


Podcast EP32: Improving the Security of Hardware Designs

Podcast EP32: Improving the Security of Hardware Designs
by Daniel Nenni on 08-06-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Alric Altoff, senior hardware security engineer at Tortuga Logic. The security risks associated with speculative execution are discussed along with scalable methods to address these risks.

Dr. Alric Altoff has over 15 years of experience in hardware security, hardware/software co-design, and applied … Read More