D&R Industry Articles (January 2018)

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Types of Memories in Computing System-On-Chips

What types of memories are needed for a computing system? Let me try to answer this question with an analogy. Have you ever solved a complex math problem without a paper?

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The Ideal Solution for AI Applications - Speedcore eFPGA

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way the world works, opening up countless opportunities in commercial and industrial systems. These new architectures will perform functions such as load balancing and allocating resources such as wireless channels and network ports based on predictions learned from experience.

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Achieving Low power with Active Clock Gating for IoT in IPs

With the evolution of Internet of Things, the requirement for ultra-low power systems have increased. To design a low power system, we must apply all the possible low power methods at each level of the system implementation. Currently, most of the systems are designed by integrating off-the-shelf Digital and Analog Intellectual Property (IP) blocks. In this paper, we focus on achieving lower power for existing IPs and the importance of architecture level clock gating and EDA Tool inserted clock gating.

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Run by Chips, Secured with Chips - Hardware Security with NeoPUF solutions

eMemory NeoPUF Entropy IP provides a quality PUF entropy up to 64K bits, and NeoPUF Key Manager IP offers a ready-to-use key generator to accelerate time-to-market. The solutions address key issues of existing technologies and can secure the hardware from the very beginning of chip manufacture.

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A Brief History of Process Node Evolution

The semiconductor industry has produced improved Integrated circuits (ICs) year after year by reducing chip area and making ICs more power efficient. In addition to new circuit innovations, a major driver for these improvements has been the advancement of fabrication process or technology nodes that essentially make electronic devices smaller and more power optimized.