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The Long And Painful Path To Power Optimization

Building a mobile Internet device requires a focus on power at every level, from the initial vision for the end product to the tools used to build the components

LTE Heightens Power-Consumption Concerns

Interface promises fast access to streaming media, but complexity of designs increases with the need to solve power issues.

Experts At The Table: Low-Power Management And Verification

First of two parts: The problems, the myriad solutions, and the reality of getting a complex chip to tapeout.

Grappling With Graphene

Industry tries to figure out when the newest “it” material will ride to low power design’s rescue?

Energy Star Meets Data Security

Devices still need to be on all the time, but that doesn’t mean they have to consume lots of power.

Expert Shootout: Parasitic Extraction

Last of three parts: What happens after 22nm, the impact of 3D IC designs, FinFETs, stress, and thermal issues.

The Growing Problem With Parasitic Extraction

Why advanced nodes are making parasitic extraction more difficult and forcing changes in design flows; flaunting the laws of physics.

Rethinking Test

Low-power designs can create false failures with existing test approaches, unnecessarily lowering yields.

Cutting The Power

Exclusive Research: Design starts expected to rebound to historic levels with major focus on power savings.

Partitioning For Power

Just when you thought you had a handle on power management, interfacing with power management gets even more complex.

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Power To The People

The power grid that connects users to their devices is becoming a major concern for the global chip industry.

The Week In Review: March 5

Actel changes the rules; Mentor up, recovery underway; Synopsys boosts simulation capabilities; Taiwanese earthquake impact, Marvell’s marvel, Intel’s dual-core Atom.

Power Bits

Research pushes deeper into more efficient chips; Synopsys’ adds software capabilities; Broadcom ups the ante in smart phones.

Make Way For LPTV

The programming is the same as before, but at least it won’t cost as much to watch.

Power Bits

New products emphasize power consumption and battery life; performance still important, but not always the competitive edge.

New Enterprise Memory To Use Less Power

EnergyStar ratings on servers drives new standards for conserving power in memory; chips to hit market starting in Q1

The Week In Review: Nov. 20

Faster time to market, lower-power devices and playing catch-up after a long recession.

Power Bits

Making life better: Paper batteries, universal voltage plugs and battery chargers with a pull cord.

The Week In Review: Nov. 6

Test and yield together; changes in the IP market; beefing up the indirect channel.

Blog Review: Nov. 4

Mid-life crises, heat stroke, and the mother of all invention. Just an average week in the engineering world.

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Round Tables

Expert Shootout: Parasitic Extraction

First of three parts: Accuracy vs. speed, advanced device parasitics, counting attofarads, plotting contact capacitance.

Expert Shootout: Parasitic Extraction

Second of three parts: The effects of multicore designs, lowering the voltage and workarounds; smarter techniques needed.

Expert Shootout: Parasitic Extraction

Last of three parts: What happens after 22nm, the impact of 3D IC designs, FinFETs, stress, and thermal issues.

Experts At The Table: The Reliability Factor

First of three parts: Density and radiation; the effect of multiple power islands and complexity; more rules.

Experts At The Table: The Reliability Factor

Second of three parts: The effects of new process nodes; end of life considerations, and special circumstances for breaking the rules.

Experts At The Table: The Reliability Factor

Last of three parts: The effects of disaggregation, restrictive design rules and economic considerations.

Experts At The Table: Rising Complexity Meets Verification

First of three parts: Power becomes major factor at advanced nodes; questions surface about whether verification is reliable enough.

Experts At The Table: Rising Complexity Meets Verification

Second of three parts: Heated arguments over strategy, accuracy and effectiveness; problems rise as power islands are added in.

Experts At The Table: Rising Complexity Meets Verification

Last of three parts: The myriad effects of low power, the differences between OVM and VMM, and establishing good coverage models.

Experts At The Table: What’s Next?

First of three parts: Difficulties are myriad at 28nm and 22nm, but at least power is part of the discussion with area, performance and manufacturability.

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Podcasts/Videos/Webcasts

2×4: Low Power, Complexity And Reliability

Four executives from Virage Logic, Actel, Forte and Magma sound off on the effects of Moore’s Law and what it means to semiconductors.

The View From Intel

Power optimization and its effect on embedded and multicore software

Handcrafted Designs

What tools are available when you get to ultra-low power designs? Answer: Not many.

Challenges At 32nm And Beyond

Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, talks about what’s changing in design, the effect of low power, and who’s going to be doing the most advanced designs.

Saving Power By The Milliwatt

Power budgets may look small, but the amount of power that can be saved with different design approaches will surprise you.

Tesla: The Ultimate Low-Power Design

Every power-saving trick turns into more mileage, and less time with a plug in the wall.

The In’s And Out’s Of Parasitic Extraction

Low-Power Engineering sat down with two of the top experts—Robert Hoogenstryd, director of marketing for design analysis and signoff at Synopsys, and Carey Robertson, Calibre product marketing director at Mentor Graphics—to talk about what changes at 28nm and 22nm and why parasitic extraction is becoming so important.

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