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Formal and Simulation Covered Together
How do you know when your IC design is done? When can you declare verification victory? These are the questions that coverage is supposed to…
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Do This now! Before the IoT Security Tsunami Hits
“There will be more than 24 billion things connected to the Internet by the year 2020,” said Linda Grindstaff, VP of Content Operations in McAfee’s…
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Microsemi Joins RISC-V Love Fest with SoC FPGA
Processors and FPGAs go together like chocolate and peanut butter, but it took a few years to get the recipe just right. Early turn-of-the-millennium attempts…
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RISC-V: The Groundswell Continues
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s interesting to attend a religious…
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Who Chooses Components and Tools?
Before becoming professional engineers, most of us designed and built things as a hobby. It’s rare to find an engineer who jumped right into engineering…
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Communication Solves Flash Unpredictability
That flash thumb drive you have in your pocket is a beast of a memory. We store so much stuff in so little space; that…
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A Fab for All Reasons
Last week, I discussed the industry’s pursuit of Persistent Memory (PM) as a way to reduce mass storage (SSDs and HDDs) latency. (See “What Will…
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Achronix Accelerates eFPGA
Perhaps when the most important problem is a nail, every solution starts to look like a hammer. With the ramping explosion in AI and machine…
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OneDrive II: The Extended Test Drive
“Familiarity breeds contempt.” – popular proverb December has come. Winter and the Christmas season are approaching, and it’s a time for goodwill, a forgiving attitude,…
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That Buzz in your Pocket
Today we’re going to talk about – um… hang on a sec, my phone is buzzing……… OK, sorry, I’m back. Um, so, yeah, haptics. Generically,…