Wreaking Havoc
By Ann Steffora Mutschler With PCB circuits running at very fast speeds today, the layout becomes part of the circuit. In designs such as DDR3 and PCIe, the fastest memory and high-speed serial...
View ArticleThe Week In Review: Sept. 7
By Ed Sperling Mentor Graphics won a deal with Fujitsu Semiconductor, which has adopted its SerDes integrity analysis tools for USB 3.0. Just imagine what you can do with speeds of up to 5Gbps....
View ArticleBlog Review: Sept. 19
Mentor’s Andrew Patterson attended Freescale Technology Forums in Bangalore and Beijing—each with about 1,500 designers in attendance and very strong interest in automotive electronics. Things should...
View ArticleMemory Architectures Undergo Changes
By Ed Sperling Memory architectures are taking some new twists. Fueled by multi-core and multiple processors, as well as some speed bumps using existing technology, SoC makers are beginning to rethink...
View ArticleEDA Industry Predictions for 2014 – Part 1
Gabe Moretti, Contributing Editor I always ask for predictions for the coming year, and generally get good response. But this year the volume of responses was so high that I could not possibly cover...
View ArticleBlog Review – Monday December 22 2014
Women in engineering; Santa’s CFD plan; VIP list; Cadence focus at CES 2015; Microsoft Band teardown; DDR 4 disruption; celebrate energy efficiency A daughter’s enjoyment in toy trains and train tracks...
View ArticleBlog Review – Monday, August 31, 2015
HPC for cancer analysis; body power: game on for animation; DDR challenges; aviation fascination; packaging checks; Arrow explains USB3.1; IDF meets IoT It would take 5.6Exabytes to synchronize the...
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