D&R Industry Articles (April 2015)

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Rethinking the Internet of Things

As the Internet of Things (IoT) cements itself into place as the mandatory next big thing for 2015, more systems architects are taking a hard look at its underlying concepts. As they look, these experts are asking some hard questions about simplistic views of the IoT structure: the clouds of sensors and actuators attached to simple, low-power wireless hubs, linked through the Internet to massive cloud data centers.

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Is Agile coming to Hardware Development?

Agile was a strong theme at Verification Futures in Reading in February 2015, with a number of speakers discussing how they have introduced continuous integration. In 2012 at IP-SOC, I asked “Are we too hard for agile?” and in this article we consider how things have moved on in the past two years. We start with a short introduction to agile (which can be skipped if you know it),

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IP and system design lower data centre power consumption

With mobility, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things becoming increasingly pervasive, businesses are under pressure to increase the energy efficiency of their data centres, warn Arif Khan and Osman Javed, Cadence.

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CSoC Platform / Digital Subsystem IP for IoT

This paper describes a CSoC platform and configurable digital subsystem IP which can be deployed for development of IOT edge devices. The paper encompasses the different attributes of IOT edge device that can cater multiple industry segments, key features and benefits of CSoC platform, components of the digital subsystem IP that enables rapid prototyping of SoCs for IOT applications.