During product development, design engineers make a wide variety of choices. It is motivating to chase options that might produce a high level of performance. However, what is the likelihood of those ...

There is a saying that I learned when I was growing up, “Measure twice, cut once.” It was sage advice that I often heard when building something with my dad or when I was under the tutorage of a ...

High-quality RISC-V implementations are becoming more numerous, but it is the extensibility of the architecture that is driving a lot of design activity. The challenge is designing and implementing ...

Unfortunately, the current design-verification process is hampering attempts to address these challenges. Because design verification occurs late in the design process, there's a high risk of design ...

Software engineering leaders face the challenge of efficiently designing, building and delivering high-value software that customers value. Achieving these goals requires a deep understanding of both ...

New approaches are being devised and tested to address the talent shortage. Leveraging AI in design tools will help engineers become more efficient, and potentially could reduce the time it takes to ...

I remember the moment I first realized that the EDA industry was on the dawn of a major transition, in my case from gates to RTL. My colleague Robert was cursing, because he was convinced this new ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...