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Eight Steps For Ensuring PCB Assembly Success
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 11 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

So, you have invented and designed the next hit product, poised to wreak havoc with the competition and ensure continued financial success for the company for a long time into the future. Guess what though; the job is not done until the product hits the street. In between design and sales is printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing and assembly. All critical business metrics, including, cos... » read more

Top-down Design Of Distributed Embedded Systems In Light Of Timing Considerations
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 09 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

Proper safeguarding of safety-critical systems in an automotive environment cannot be ensured sufficiently without taking timing into consideration. The failure to observe timing constraints can lead to malfunctions and, in a worst-case scenario, can cause vehicle damage and personal injury. AUTOSAR 4.0 now supports timing constraints, but the standard, although very powerful, still is not able... » read more

Debugging Performance Issues With Qt-based UI Applications
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 03 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

Interactive user interfaces (UI) are fast becoming a basic requirement in many embedded applications and Qt is a popular cross-platform application and framework to help develop such compelling UIs. As with any software application, embedded UI development also requires numerous debugging iterations to achieve the level of desired performance (e.g. non-laggy response etc.) This whitepaper walks... » read more

Migrating Consumer Electronics To The Automotive Market With Calibre PERC
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 19 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Tough reliability standards for electronic automotive safety systems ensure that integrated circuits (ICs) for these systems comply with demanding performance and reliability requirements. However, companies seeking to leverage their consumer-based intellectual property (IP) for use in automotive “infotainment” and “connected car” applications are finding that many of these performance ... » read more

Divide And Conquer: Hierarchical DFT For SoC Designs
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 13 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

Large System on Chip (SoC) designs present many challenges to all design disciplines, including design-for-test (DFT). By taking a divide-and-conquer approach to test, significant savings in tool runtime and memory consumption can be realized. This whitepaper describes the basic components of a hierarchical DFT methodology, the benefits that it provides, and the tool automation that is availabl... » read more

Three Challenges Impacting The Efficiency Of PCB Engineering Teams
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 05 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

We live in an era of rapidly accelerating design complexity, with designs often doubling in performance and/or capacity between board revisions. At the same time, we’re seeing a shift in the workforce, particularly in the older design markets of the United States and Europe. Finally, we live in an era where everything’s a system—the days of standalone, single-board projects are gone. Cons... » read more

When To Use Simulation, When To Use Emulation
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 22 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Should you emulate or simulate? In this brief historical review, Dr. Lauro Rizzatti compares the two and reveals when to use which and explains why only emulation can verify embedded SW in an SoC design. To read more, click here. » read more

The Impact Of 14nm Photomask Uncertainties On Computational Lithography Solutions
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 16 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Computational lithography solutions rely upon accurate process models to faithfully represent the imaging system output for a defined set of process and design inputs. These models, in turn, rely upon the accurate representation of multiple parameters associated with the scanner and the photomask. While certain system input variables, such as scanner numerical aperture, can be empirically tuned... » read more

Single Kernel Electro-Thermal IC Simulator
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 08 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

This paper investigates a new, highly-accurate and high-performing electro-thermal effects simulation method and tools. It describes the extension of an analog electrical simulator to handle the electrical network and the thermal network simultaneously. These innovations remove the constraint on the time constants and allow accurate validation of the electro-thermal behavior for even the most a... » read more

The Future Of Medical Device Certification: Greater Scrutiny And More Validation
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 02 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Given the critical nature of the functions performed by today’s medical devices, greater scrutiny along with the need for more certifiable software is on this rise. There is more interest today in government standards such as FDA 510K and IEC 62304 for medical device software. Enhanced scrutiny from government agencies can introduce unexpected delays – or even jeopardize the commercial rele... » read more

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