D&R Industry Articles (March 2025)

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RISC-V in 2025: Progress, Challenges,and What's Next for Automotive & OpenHardware

RISC-V has been a hot topic in the semiconductor industry for several years now, and for good reason. As an open standard ISA alternative to traditional processor architectures like ARM and x86, it carries a huge weight of expectation, but also significant hurdles to widespread adoption. It’s clear that RISC-V is making progress, but the road ahead isn’t smooth.

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Understanding MACsec and Its Integration

MACsec, as defined by the IEEE 802.1AE standard, provides protection for traffic passing over Layer 1 and Layer 2 links. It is designed to prevent a range of security threats, including man-in-the-middle attacks, pasive wiretapping, impersonation, and replay attacks. By applying protection at the data link layer, MACsec ensures that all communication between devices on the same network segment is secure.

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Density Management in Analog Layout Design: Addressing Issues and Ensuring Consistency

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of density issues, and the methodologies used to perform effective density checks in VLSI layout design.

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How the Ability to Manage Register Specifications Helps You Create More Competitive Products

The semiconductors business is incredibly competitive, with dynamic end markets and constant shifts in leading products and vendors. It takes excellence on many fronts to succeed, far more than I can cover in a single blog post. Thus, I’m going to focus on one particular aspect of developing competitive IP and system-on-chip (SoC) products: the ability to manage your register specifications and automate the process of turning them into silicon.