Building Energy-Efficient ICs From The Ground Up
Power consumption has moved to the forefront of digital IC development as component sizes shrink and insulating layers on gates become thinner. To enable today’s advanced low-power techniques, the...
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Managing Electrical Communications Better
By Ann Steffora Mutschler Managing the electrical components of signal paths between IC, package, board and system is no small task, and it’s only growing in complexity. Understanding how to correctly...
View ArticleExperts At The Table: The Trouble With Low-Power Verification
By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss low-power verification with Leah Clark, associate technical director at Broadcom; Erich Marschner, product marketing manager at...
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A Balancing Act
By Ann Steffora Mutschler If you stay current on data center trends, you are well-versed on the fact that Intel reported last June energy proportionality has effectively doubled server efficiency and...
View ArticleSprint To The Finish Line
By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss future challenges, pain points, and how the supply chain is being reconfigured with Chi-Ping Hsu, senior vice president for...
View ArticleLessons Learned In 4G LTE
By Ann Steffora Mutschler While 4G LTE has moved into the mainstream, there are lessons to be learned about these very complex modems, especially from the perspective of balancing power and...
View ArticleRTL Signoff
Piyush Sancheti, Atrenta’s vice president of product marketing, talks with Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering about where the pain points are in design and why RTL signoff has become so important....
View ArticleRethinking Big Iron
By Ann Steffora Mutschler One size does not fit all when it comes to the server market, and that may be the best option for low-power processor makers to gain a toehold in a world that until now has...
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Automotive Power Concerns
By Ann Steffora Mutschler With advanced semiconductor technologies infiltrating the automotive market in ever new and exciting ways, there are also challenges to implementation involving power. In...
View ArticleWatching And Waiting For DFP
By Ann Steffora Mutschler Although the semiconductor industry has been talking about the need to optimize SoC designs for power for many years, it is safe to say it’s still in the very early stages of...
View ArticlePower/Performance Bits: July 9
All-optical transistor Optical computing uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations and is expected to potentially pay dividends for both conventional computers and quantum computers,...
View ArticleTrading Off Power And Performance
By Ann Steffora Mutschler There is no shortage of opinions when it comes to the topic of performance and power tradeoffs. From abstracting the task from engineers to process considerations, engineering...
View ArticleToo Big To Handle?
By Ann Steffora Mutschler With the insatiable demand for power efficiency today, the power management tasks have been pushed up into the realm of the software engineer due to the sheer complexity of...
View ArticleHardware Accelerators Earn Their Keep
By Ann Steffora Mutschler Hardware accelerators have been used for years, but with the proliferation of multicore chips and SoCs their use is evolving. Multicore processors have reduced the reliance on...
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Power/Performance Bits: August 13
Graphene-based device enables next-gen energy storage Monash University researchers have brought next generation energy storage closer with an engineering first – a graphene-based device that is...
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Power/Performance Bits: August 20
Rechargeable flow battery for cheaper, large-scale energy storage In a creation that may eventually enable cheaper, large-scale energy storage, MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow...
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