During the last two decades, CMOS technologists have used scaling to deal with ever-increasing system complexity and performance requirements. Digital abstraction allowed process technology to evolve ...

Cadence’s dual announcements with NVIDIA and Google mark pragmatic steps in the industry’s transition toward intelligent, ...

In April 1991 Business Week ran a cover story entitled, “I Can’t Work This ?#!!@ Thing,” about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. Today, more than ...

Virtual system integration and test using Model-Based Design uncovers errors introduced in the requirements and design phases of embedded system development, well before the physical testing phase. As ...

Designing electronic systems has become measurably more complex during the past decade. Many of the products that are developed today are in-fact complex interconnected systems. Using the automotive ...

Why does anything have to change? A manufacturing company’s most critical product decisions are made every day in design reviews. And if you assess the state of what a design review looks like today, ...

Optical design has been a topic of considerable importance in advancing how humans explore the unknown world. In the past, optical design was tedious ‘manual’ work. Now, with the rapid development in ...

Recently, I was part of a larger discussion, and it struck me that when most people hear the word "design," they still think only about how things look. I used a simple analogy of a beautifully ...

In this chapter, we report our broad conclusions related to each of the themes we introduced at the start of the report. These conclusions reflect detailed consideration of (1) our research into ...