Do websites dream of electric designers? Can web content know itself? The Grid, a San Francisco startup, is changing the way websites are designed by radically changing the role of the designer. This ...

While doing research on the web for this column, I came across a professor’s handout on design fundamentals. The lead paragraph talks about applying basic design principles every time you design a ...

A number of technical challenges have come together to make power grid design one of the most challenging design issues today. Creating the right power grid is a growing problem in leading-edge chips.

To the extent that the popular media understands the Smart Grid at all, it’s seen in terms of “smart meters” that are going to, say, let the utilities turn off consumers’ clothes dryers. Yet it really ...

Power supply noise and related issues have become critical for designs at 90nm and below due to the combination of several factors. Timing slowdown and functional failures are becoming common in these ...

The current power infrastructure is in need of an update for better efficiency, reliability, and safety. Standards organizations and engineers have risen to the challenge, promising to solve many ...

Set-Top-Box(STB) SoC designs are extremely complex with multi-million standard cells, higher core utilization of around 70-80 %, and multiple clock domains including high and low frequencies. An ...