The SoC design crisis: is big data the answer?

Ed Sperling’s recent excellent article about the challenges of gathering and processing data for system-level design really got me thinking. Ed summarizes some very relevant and pithy thoughts coming from a number of different parts of our industry – including EDA...

Systems-on-a-chip need a system-level view

No-one really knows what is going on inside SoCs; no-one really knows how systems-on-chip operate as a system There’s a crisis going on in the chip industry. SoC architects, developers and EDA companies will deny it, but it’s a crisis nevertheless. The fact is that...