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Utilizing Clock-Gating Efficiency To Reduce Power In RTL Designs
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 08 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

With the advent of the consumer era and the popularity of mobile applications, power optimization is the mantra of the day. Designers go through several iterations to optimize power in order to achieve their power budgets. The average Clock-Gating Efficiency for a design is a much better indicator of dynamic power consumption because it is a measure of both how many and how long registers are g... » read more

How Vehicle Electrification Impacts Electrical System Design
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 01 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

Autonomy and electrification are demanding significant changes to electrical and electronic architectures within vehicles. This is due in part to the introduction of high voltages, increased safety considerations and significant weight reductions needed to maximize vehicle range from electrification, and ‘fail operational’ designs, hugely increased data network loading and virtual validatio... » read more

Accelerate Computer Vision Design Using High-Level Synthesis
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 25 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

Computer vision solutions are all around us, in cars, consumer products, security, retail, and agriculture. But, designing these solutions is not easy, mainly because of constant algorithm upgrades and related requirements changes. This means that wherever the team is in the RTL creation and verification flow, they might have to start over, which can cause an unacceptable delay in the productio... » read more

Low Power Coverage
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 16 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

Through real design examples and case studies, this paper demonstrates how to achieve comprehensive low power design verification closure with all possible sources of power states, their transition coverage, and cross-coverage of power domains of interdependent states. As well the paper proposes a mechanism to combine and represent LP and non-LP coverage in a unified and adaptable database with... » read more

Accelerating Test Pattern Bring-Up For Rapid First Silicon Debug
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 12 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

Reducing the time spent on silicon bring-up is critical in getting ICs into the hands of customers and staying competitive. Typically, the silicon bring-up process involves converting the test patterns to a tester-specific format and generating a test program that is executed by Automatic Test Equipment (ATE). This standard silicon bring-up flow is becoming too slow and expensive, especially fo... » read more

Autonomy, Electrification And The Rise Of Model-Based EE Design
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 09 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

Powerful software that automatically transforms input models into deterministic outputs is transforming automotive electrical and electronics (EE) design. Martin O'Brien and Dan Scott set the stage for Mentor's advanced generative engineering approach. To read more, click here. » read more

Comprehensive CDC Verification Using Advanced Hierarchical Data Models
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 27 Jun, 2018 - Comments: 0

In this paper, we describe the hierarchical data model (HDM), which is a performance efficient alternative to the traditional flat CDC verification flow. The HDM is equivalent to an abstract CDC model of the IP that captures the CDC intent of the block along with its integration rules. It is a generic data model that can be seamlessly re-used across releases and across designs wherever the IP i... » read more

The Veloce Strato Platform: Unique Core Components Create High-Value Advantages
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 13 Jun, 2018 - Comments: 0

The Veloce Strato Emulation platform has sufficient execution speed, full visibility capabilities and ease-of-use in model creation and model updates to span the entire range of needs throughout the life of the design development process. To read more, click here. » read more

Putting “Design” Back Into Design For Test In PCB Products
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 11 Jun, 2018 - Comments: 0

Design for manufacturing (DFM) has become a proactive part of the design process, but the same cannot be said for DFT. Whereas “left-shifting” DFM has reduced manufacturing problems, increased yield, reduced scrap levels, and simplified engineering rework, testability-related improvements have stayed flat during that same time. Unfortunately, as assembly costs have come down, and test-relat... » read more

18th Century Technology For Modern Medical IoT
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 06 Jun, 2018 - Comments: 0

Back in 1790, Luigi Galvani was dissecting a frog and noticed that he could cause its leg to move when touching a nerve with two probes. He called this phenomenon “animal electricity.” This concept was soon refined over time to become the voltaic cell, the foundation concept of the potato clock, fondly known by all engineers. Who knew that this cell would be leveraged to create an ingestibl... » read more

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