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International Symposium on Physical Design 2019

By Kira Jones | 24 Jun 2019

The ISPD contest is a well-known competition in the EDA field, where the main idea is to have EDA companies share the industrial problems they are facing with the academic community to drive practical research. At the beginning of the contest, the ho...

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Intel and PSS...and Simics, a Blast from My Past

By Paul McLellan | 24 Jun 2019

One of the newest standards in verification is PSS, the Portable Stimulus Standard. Whereas UVM is focused on verification of blocks and chips, PSS addresses how to do verification at the system level, where there are multiple processors, with multip...

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Intel | DAC | Perspec | pss | portable stimulus standard
Tales from DAC: A Meeting of Security's Heroes at the Accellera Luncheon (Part 1 of 2)

By XTeam | 24 Jun 2019

Figure 1: The panel and crowd Citizens—the tech world is in trouble. With the ever-expanding size and complexity of chip designs, security hasn’t kept up. Old techniques for securing a design are no longer sufficient—and with IoT devices expanding into every facet of a person’s life, security is...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 23rd June 2019

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jun 2019

https://youtu.be/6GUoDQkSoLY Made at Paris Air Show (camera Simon Fielding) Monday: Designing a Wi-Fi HaLow Baseband in Less than Six Months Tuesday: DAC: The View from Wall Street Wednesday: Assessing Bias in Computer Vision Systems Thursday: W...

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Why Is 5G Such a Big Deal?

By Paul McLellan | 21 Jun 2019

Yesterday was my post What is 5G? which is the first half of my introductory look at what 5G really is, based on Ian Dennison's DAC presentation 5G Intelligent System Design. Today we pick up where that post left off. As a reminder, a 5...

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5G | mmwave | mobile