With consumer demand—much of it for power sensitive mobile devices—driving the bulk of semiconductor design activity, it would seem obvious that the way chips are designed would have changed to ...

RiverWare optimization can simultaneously solve over multiple reservoirs and multiple time periods with objectives such as maximizing hydropower value and balancing reservoir operations and impacts.

As I was researching some new low power capabilities, I asked this question of nearly every designer I met: “How important is low power optimization?” It turns out that it’s a pretty useless question ...