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A wave of mergers and acquisitions is reshaping Silicon Valley's semiconductor industry as companies join forces to shoulder the soaring technology costs required to stay competitive.

Debugging the debug process; homing in on UPF; sound digitization schemes; unit testing assertions; occupant aware homes; embedded system-level verification; the unexpected consequences of uninitialized variables; and glow-in-the-dark DDR4.

Big data and verification; reading design specs; all-digital radio; protocols: WiGig and HART; more from the Wilson verification study: FPGAs; the Studebaker plant gets a new lease on life; verification sequence portability; NASA space apps; draw a barn with SystemVerilog constraints; Industrial automation and the IoT; and upcoming events

All's well at TSMC; safety standards impact embedded SW; VIP, buy or build?; software security; debug automation; glow-in-the-dark neurons; and an anniversary in semi-vlogging.

High-level synthesis in design and verification, layering UVM constraints, FORTRAN? still?, parallel algorithms, two new (and free!) VIPs from AMIQ; the NVMe SSD standard; and Apple batteries and the IoT

Xilinx in space; lenssless optics; the AMBA coherent host interface; the downside of silos; vertical companies; gender inequity; PCIe Gen 4; and the de-evolution of the SoC

UVM platform specifics and coding examples; ringing MOSFETs; the capture, care, and upkeep of young engineers; post-DVCon coverage, and building vs. Jaguar

Buffer, and ADC design considerations; all about timing specifications; portable stimulus; Star Trek and the IoT; the Wilson Group's functional verification study; RTOS performance; the Silicon Valley age gap; temperature and humidity sensors; requirements management; and the oft-dreaded question "What do you do for a living?"

Arduinos; software defined networks… and radios!; ARM/AMBA; TLS engines; embedded industrial automation; system-level power modelling; and collaborating more effectively by Hamilton Carter – Senior Editor If you like to play at your engineering, you should know a new version of the Arduino IDE has been released! Interested in software defined networking—SDN? Check out this Xilinx enabled kickstarter. ARM contributes to …

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