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Articles for the Week of September 27, 2021

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High Bit-Rate Controllers for MIPI CSI2

The imbalance between I/O speed and internal logic speed in integrated circuits has shifted in recent years in favor of the I/O. While in the past, the performance of integrated circuits was often limited by the I/O rate, today, in both ASICs and FPGAs, internal logic struggles to keep up with the I/O performance.

• Differentiation Through the Chip Design and Verification Flow

Articles for the Week of September 20, 2021

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PUFiot: An Essential Secure Coprocessor for RISC-V

While the security guidelines of RISC-V are still under development, providing RISC-V users with an effective plug-and-play solution to strengthen the security of SoCs and beyond is critical. What kind of designs are needed to secure IoT applications?

Articles for the Week of September 13, 2021

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How PUF-based RoT Can Solve IoT Security Issues

The security issues surrounding the internet of things (IoT) devices range from tiny semiconductors to global supply chains.

• How NoCs ace power management and functional safety in SoCs
• Out of the Verification Crisis: Improving RTL Quality

Articles for the Week of August 30, 2021

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eNVM towards 40nm and beyond

As the semiconductor industry is prominently marching into the nanometer era, fundamental elements face their physical limits significantly, such as electric field across gate dielectric layers, leakage from an ultra-short channel or steep doping profile, newly incorporated leakage/current models, etc.

• Securing UART communication interface in embedded IoT devices

Articles for the Week of August 23, 2021

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EDA in the Cloud Will be Key to Rapid Innovative SoC Design

In the electronic design automation (EDA) space, until recently, traditional concerns about security, protecting intellectual property (IP) and data outweighed the significant advantages offered by computing in the cloud — such as flexibility, scalability and productivity.

Articles for the Week of August 16, 2021

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FPGAs - The Logical Solution to the Microcontroller Shortage

Today’s marketplace is getting heavily disrupted by the current semiconductor chip shortage that has hampered our manufacturing production lines. This is evident by the limited supply of products available.

Articles for the Week of August 2, 2021

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The Elements of Traceability

Europe is an interesting place to observe complex systems’ development activity. It may not have hyperscalers or smartphone leaders, but on the world stage, it has one of the two dominant commercial aircraft manufacturers, an active space agency, several premium car brands and leading Tier 1s with supporting automotive semiconductor companies.

Articles for the Week of June 28, 2021

• TOPS: The Truth Behind a Deep Learning Lie