The value of design thinking has been well documented in the past. This value can range from increased adoption to more revenue. With some minor modifications to already common software development ...

Seldom does a design team receive carte blanche—at whatever the cost—to meet performance or power specifications. But given the partitioning and segmentation of many IC design flows, it’s not uncommon ...

As chips move to ever-finer geometries, the active region (diffusion) shapes of neighboring cells can impact timing analysis and power calculations for the entire design. The LLE (Local Layout Effect) ...

Undertaking the design of a system-on-a-chip (SoC) is complex enough on its own merits. As is ever more the case, when power consumption is the primary design constraint, it becomes a task of enormous ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

The conceptual design stage is a key step in aircraft development, laying the foundation for performance, efficiency and innovation. Traditionally, this process relies heavily on experienced designers ...