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Choosing A Format For The Portable Stimulus Specification
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 23 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

The Accellera Systems Initiative is currently defining a Portable Stimulus Specification (PSS) standard for verification models that can be used to generate appropriate tests for all levels and platforms automatically. The current draft of the standard includes two alternative input formats for these models. This paper examines the merits and challenges of both formats. To read more, click h... » read more

Alchip Minimizes Dynamic Power For High-Performance Computing ASICs
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 09 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

Alchip, a fabless ASIC provider, focuses on high-performance computing ASICs. They decided to undertake a new project where they would employ the PowerPro RTL Low-Power Platform to reduce dynamic power consumption within their unique fishbone clock tree methodology. Could they achieve better power results using PowerPro and could they integrate the tool within their team and the existing design... » read more

Package Designers Need Assembly-Level LVS For HDAP Verification
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 07 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

While advanced IC packaging is a fast-growing market, comprehensive package verification still has a ways to go. Unique package connectivity issues, such as missing or misplaced interposer/package bumps/pads, pin naming and text labeling issues, and the like, require new and enhanced LVS-like verification techniques that can move across the entire package to ensure proper connectivity and perfo... » read more

Engineering Challenges for Viable Autonomous Vehicles
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 02 May, 2018 - Comments: 0

The rise of autonomous and electric vehicles brings with it a host of engineering implications, including an increase in the number and variety of sensors in the vehicle, increasing software and hardware complexity, massive validation and verification cycles, heightened safety and security requirements, and new demands for digital data continuity. This paper is an overview of how six interdisci... » read more

8 Checks That Every PCB Designer Needs To Achieve Electrical Sign-Off
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 25 Apr, 2018 - Comments: 0

Automate electrical design rule checking (DRC) for fast, cost-effective PCB design verification. These eight rules apply regardless of your PCB layout tool or level of expertise. To read more, click here. » read more

Ultra-Low Power Memory IPs Using Mentor coolSRAM-6T Technology
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 11 Apr, 2018 - Comments: 0

The use of embedded static random access memory (eSRAM) in complex ICs has significantly increased in the past three decades. This trend will continue with the growth of ICs designed for rapidly expanding markets such as automotive, virtual reality (VR) / augmented reality (AR), implantable medical devices, gaming, sensor hub, medical devices, wearable computing, data center, and artificial int... » read more

Functional Safety In AI-Controlled Vehicles
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 09 Apr, 2018 - Comments: 0

Whereas ISO 26262 specifies requirements for eliminating safety hazards in the presence of an E/E system fault, this paper explains why new standards for the AI era must address so-called safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF), which means helping to validate that advanced automotive functionalities are engineered into the vehicle to avoid safety hazards even in the absence of a fault. ... » read more

Preparing For An IoT Edge Project
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 04 Apr, 2018 - Comments: 0

Before starting your IoT edge device development process, it is wise to spend time preparing for your new project. Planning before you start will limit frustration and save you time and money in the long run. Before diving into the task, study the 15 preparation considerations in this white paper. To read more, click here. » read more

The PCB Engineer’s Guide To Successful DDR Bus Design
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 21 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

This paper tackles the critical signal integrity concerns encountered when designing, simulating, and analyzing DDR buses. The first section describes DDR bus design challenges that can be particularly problematic, even intimidating, to designers. Subsequent sections describe how simulation and analysis speed up the design of a functioning DDR system to reduce PCB spins and shorten the time to ... » read more

Mentor TLC NAND Softmodel Soft-Bit Error Injection
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 07 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

Designing SSD controllers targeting NAND flash as the storage media requires some heavy lifting when it comes to dealing with the soft-errors that the flash will eventually produce. This paper will look at a method to simplify the design and verification required. We model these soft-bit behaviors with the Veloce emulator in a virtual setup, which reduces the time to market for an SSD. To r... » read more

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