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A Passel of Processors
Picture this architecture – a high speed application processor doing control coupled to an accelerator comprised of a mass of processing elements ready to power-parallelize…
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Executive Profile
You never know with CEOs these days. There was a time when there was a certain order to things, a level of formality. CEOs would…
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Engineering or Craft
This article has been in production for some time. It was going to be so simple: chat to two of the leading pundits on system…
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ZeBu™: A Unified Verification Approach for Hardware Designers and Embedded Software Developers
Introduction Moore’s law continues to drive both chip complexity and performance to new highs every year, and continues to stress and periodically “break” existing design…
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Climbing the Pyramid
When most of us went to engineering school, we planned to immerse ourselves in the ocean of technology. Our education started with foundations of mathematics…
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Skew This!
The concept of clocking a register is pretty simple. It’s Logic Design 101 stuff. Having an entire system controlled by a uniform clock makes accessible…
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What the Hell Were They Thinking?!
Some things were just made to go together (peanut butter and jelly) and some just weren’t, (those two teenagers in the Classmates.com pop-up ads). Now…
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New Toys
When you are exposed to around 40 companies presenting their latest and greatest products or philosophy, it is sometimes a little difficult to keep the…
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Visibility Enhancement Technology Confronts the Visibility Issue with Full-Chip Simulation
When it comes to system-on-chip verification, two trends have become painfully obvious: it is expensive and it takes too long. Consider, for example, that the…
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Dueling DFMs
Design For Manufacturing (DFM) was a headline darling for a while and somehow disappeared off the radar, even as debates continued as to whether all…