Implementing nanometer-scale ICs begins and ends with wires. Wires are so dominant that little is known about a design's performance or manufacturability without them. In fact, nanometer design ...

This document describes the issues faced when building hardware and software systems where the success of the project is dependant on requirements being fully supported and tested. Where the cost of ...

As the scaling of silicon technology proceeds, via resistance is becoming a dominant factor in integrated circuit (IC) yield, performance, and reliability. At advanced nodes, interconnects and via ...

Cofer and Harding discuss how to implement DSP functionality, covering when FPGAs are a good fit for DSP algorithm implementation and important design decisions and considerations. Each of these ...

Mixed-signal design isn’t new. But as designs continue to get larger and more complex, with ever increasing amounts of digital and analog content, design implementation is getting more challenging.

The ISA-84 series of standards and technical reports provide detailed guidance for every phase of the safety instrumented system (SIS) lifecycle, to make sure systems are designed, verified and ...

Peter Hadinger, Inmarsat President U.S. Government, recently attended the 33rd AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) in Australia, to present a paper on Inmarsat’s ...

At nanometer technologies, variability is rapidly becoming one of the leading causes for chip failures and delayed schedules. However, there is significant confusion about the term “variability” in ...