At 10nm and beyond, the breakdown of some historic trends tied to Moore’s Law is making it harder to fully harvest the benefits of scaling semiconductor technologies. Underlying the power, performance ...

For many years, power systems could be easily boiled down to a discussion of volts and amps. But for the past decade, the move to higher operating frequencies has brought another wrinkle to the power ...

Signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) are two distinct but related realms of analysis concerned with proper operation of digital circuits. In signal integrity, the main concern is making sure ...

Keysight has recently added to their website a recent new video done by Steve Sandler, Founder, Managing Director, and CTO of PICOTEST. Sandler manages a website called Picotest which develops and ...

Power analysis is shifting much earlier in the chip design process, with power emerging as the top design constraint at advanced process nodes. As engineering teams pack more functionality and content ...

A decade ago, the call of the times was for solutions to address the “Power Wall†, at least at leading microprocessor institutions. Conferences discussed looming challenges with supply currents ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the new Cadence ® Voltus ™-XFi Custom Power Integrity Solution, a custom electromigration and IR drop (EM ...

One of the biggest challenges for analog designers has been the lack of targeted tools for their needs. There are simply not enough tools addressing analog design, especially on the analysis side.