Here we are, back in New Orleans for another Design Automation Conference. Most DAC visitors arrive in “tool-browsing” mode, casually looking for a faster simulator, more accurate timing extractor or ...
Last week, I wrote several blog entries that discussed old and obsolete ideas contained in the popular and successful Reuse Methodology Manual (the RMM), which ushered in the SOC era back in 1997. I ...
Today platform-FPGAs are fabricated in nanometer technologies with multi-million gate densities; hard/soft macros such as embedded processors, RAMs, multipliers, DSP blocks, analog cells and high ...
The International Standards Organization (ISO) has created a set of quality standards known as ISO 9000, created to apply to a broad range of industries, including but not limited to embedded hardware ...
Nowadays, System Engineers are placed in the centre of two antagonist flows: microelectronic systems are increasingly complex whilst the time budget for development is constantly shrinking. Even if ...
A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...