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Ann Mutschler

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Ann Mutschler is senior executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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Embedded Software Verification Issues Grow
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

Embedded software is becoming more critical in managing the power and performance of complex designs, but so far there is no consensus about the best way to approach it—and that's creating problems. Even with safety-critical standards such as DO-178C for aerospace and [gettech id="31076" comment="ISO 26262"] for automotive, different groups of tool providers approach software from differen... » read more

Analog’s Rising Status
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 1

As more sensors and actuators are added into electronic devices, pressure is growing to more seamlessly move data seamlessly back and forth between analog and digital circuitry. [getkc id="37" kc_name="Analog"] and digital always have fit rather uncomfortably together, and that discomfort has grown as [getkc id="81" kc_name="SoCs"] are built using smaller feature sizes. While digital transis... » read more

System Bits: Dec. 6
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

Teaching computers to read A multidisciplinary team of UCLA researchers has built a computational model that reflects how humans think and communicate, by designing an algorithm that examined nearly two million posts from popular parenting websites, thereby teaching computers to understand structured narratives within the flow of posts on the internet. Managing large-scale data in this way ... » read more

Car Becomes A Living Platform
By Ann Mutschler - 05 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

Future generations of vehicles will age like any other electronic or mechanical devices, but they also will need to adapt, grow, and change in unexpected ways over time to avoid being hacked, rendered obsolete, or otherwise compromised. This adds a whole new set of challenges never seen before in automotive development, and OEMs are working feverishly to bring system architectures up to ... » read more

Can Startups Solve Today’s Automotive Challenges?
By Ann Mutschler - 01 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

When asked about the most pressing concerns today amongst automotive customers, some leading industry suppliers had the following to say: Samer Hijazi, senior design engineering architect, IP Group at Cadence: How fast can I deploy? Ron DiGiuseppe, Senior Strategic Marketing Manager at Synopsys: Our customers are very broadly requiring ISO26262 safety compliance in our products as well a... » read more

Optimizing Multiple IoT Layers
By Ann Mutschler - 01 Dec, 2016 - Comments: 0

As the number of connected devices rises, so do questions about how to optimize them for target markets, how to ensure they play nicely together, and how to bring them to market quickly and inexpensively. [getkc id="76" kc_name="IoT"] is broad term that encompasses a lot of disparate pieces for devices, systems, and connected systems. At the highest levels are hardware and software, but with... » read more

System Bits: Nov. 29
By Ann Mutschler - 29 Nov, 2016 - Comments: 0

Qubit device fabbed in standard CMOS In a major step toward commercialization of quantum computing, Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, along with Inac, a fundamental research division of CEA, and the University of Grenoble Alpes have achieved the first demonstration of a quantum-dot-based spin qubit using a device fabricated on a 300-mm CMOS fab line. Maud Vinet, Leti’s advanced CMOS manager... » read more

System Bits: Nov. 23
By Ann Mutschler - 23 Nov, 2016 - Comments: 0

Entanglement bonanza Quantum computers — or other quantum information devices — powerful enough to be of practical use could be closer than thought, according to researchers at MIT and IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center who have shown that simple systems of quantum particles exhibit exponentially more entanglement than previously believed. They reminded that quantum computers prom... » read more

The Limits Of Parallelism
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Nov, 2016 - Comments: 0

Parallelism used to be the domain of supercomputers working on weather simulations or plutonium decay. It is now part of the architecture of most SoCs. But just how efficient, effective and widespread has parallelism really become? There is no simple answer to that question. Even for a dual-core implementation of a processor on a chip, results can vary greatly by software application, operat... » read more

Teaching Computers To See
By Ann Mutschler - 16 Nov, 2016 - Comments: 0

Vision processing is emerging as a foundation technology for a number of high-growth applications, spurring a wave of intensive research to reduce power, improve performance, and push embedded vision into the mainstream to leverage economies of scale. What began as a relatively modest development effort has turned into an all-out race for a piece of this market, and for good reason. Mark... » read more

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