The Week In Review: Manufacturing
Fab tools Applied Materials has officially rolled out the Producer Selectra system, a selective etch tool. The system falls under the loosely defined category called atomic layer etch (ALE). Applied’s...
View ArticlePlugging Holes In Machine Learning
The number of companies using machine learning is accelerating, but so far there are no tools to validate, verify and debug these systems. That presents a problem for the chipmakers and systems...
View ArticleBlog Review: Sept. 21
Mentor’s Ricardo Anguiano takes a look at a proposal to prevent auto accidents from becoming pile-ups: the relaying of hazard information to the cloud and on to upcoming vehicles. Why get rid of 3.5mm...
View ArticleBlog Review: Oct. 12
Mentor’s Harry Foster digs into verification technology adoption trends for ASIC/IC. Cadence’s Tom Anderson looks at the goals of the Portable Stimulus Working Group and how they compare to those of...
View ArticleBlog Review: Oct. 26
Synopsys’ Robert Vamosi provides some additional information on last Friday’s massive DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn, which hampered access to many big-name websites. On the same note, Cadence’s...
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Embedded FPGAs Going Mainstream?
Systems on chip have been made with many processing variants ranging from general-purpose CPUs to DSPs, GPUs, and custom processors that are highly optimized for certain tasks. When none of these...
View ArticleThe Battle To Embed The FPGA
There have been many attempts to embed an FPGA into chips in the past, but the market has failed to materialize—or the solutions have failed to inspire. An early example was Triscend Corporation,...
View ArticleBlog Review: Nov. 16
Cadence’s Paul McLellan highlights a talk from the recent Jasper User Group by ARM’s Daryl Stewart on how the company saw the value of formal verification. Synopsys’ Patrick Sheridan looks at the...
View ArticleEmbedded FPGAs Come Of Age
FPGAs increasingly are being viewed as a critical component in heterogeneous designs, ratcheting up their stature and the amount of attention being given to programmable devices. Once relegated to test...
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Whatever Happened To HLS?
A few years ago, High Level Synthesis (HLS) was probably the most talked about emerging technology that was to be the heart of a new Electronic System Level (ESL) flow. Today, we hear much less about...
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The Secret Life Of Accelerators
Accelerator chips increasingly are providing the performance boost that device scaling once provided, changing basic assumptions about how data moves within an electronic system and where it should be...
View ArticlePrototyping Partitioning Problems
Gaps are widening in the prototyping of large, complex chips because the speed and capacity of the FPGA is not keeping pace with rapid rollout pace of advanced ASICs. This is a new twist for a...
View ArticleNew Deep Learning Processors, Embedded FPGA Technologies, SoC Design Solutions
Some of the most valuable events at DAC are the IP Track sessions, which give small and midsize companies a chance to share innovations that might not get much attention elsewhere. The use of IP in...
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FPGAs Becoming More SoC-Like
FPGAs are blinged-out rockstars compared to their former selves. No longer just a collection of look-up tables (LUTs) and registers, FPGAs have moved well beyond into now being architectures for system...
View ArticleEmbedded FPGA Design Considerations
Geoff Tate, CEO of Flex Logix, talks about interconnects, memory, different design approaches, and why foundry processes are critical to eFPGA design.
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FPGAs Drive Deeper Into Cars
FPGAs are reaching deeper and wider inside of automobiles, playing an increasingly important role across more systems within a vehicle as the electronic content continues to grow. The role of FPGAs in...
View ArticleSecurity, Scaling and Power
If anyone has doubts about the slowdown and increasing irrelevance of Moore’s Law, Intel’s official unveiling of its advanced packaging strategy should leave little doubt. Inertia has ended and the...
View ArticleWeek in Review: IoT, Security, Autos
Products/Services Rambus reports completing its acquisition of Northwest Logic, a supplier of memory, PCIe, and MIPI digital controllers. Meanwhile, the company named Sean Fan as chief operating...
View ArticleAMD Wants An FPGA Company, Too
AMD signed a definitive agreement to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion in stock, setting the stage for a head-to-head battle against Intel in nearly all major markets. But there’s more to this acquisition...
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ML Focus Shifting Toward Software
New machine-learning (ML) architectures continue to garner a huge amount of attention as the race continues to provide the most effective acceleration architectures for the cloud and the edge, but...
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