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Verification Planning And Requirement Tracking For Analog Design
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 24 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Verifying designs to meet all specifications across all process corners has become an intractable problem from the perspective of debugging, managing, tracking, and meeting verification goals. Implementing a CDV methodology for analog designs can evolve analog design and verification to a standard process-based method that can be tracked and its progress measured. This paper aims to extend comm... » read more

Improve Failure Analysis Success Rate With Layout-Aware Diagnosis
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 18 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

In this whitepaper, we explore how a layout-aware diagnosis is a powerful tool for both failure analysis engineers, who find the root cause of a particular failing die, and for yield engineers, who need sets of diagnosis data to find the systematic yield limiters across the life of the product. Logic-based scan test diagnosis is an established software-based methodology for finding the defec... » read more

Smart Grid Security
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 10 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Smart energy is an all-inclusive term that refers to upgrading the energy grid so it can support bi-directional flow of energy and data. Such an endeavor involves adding connectivity, communication, and security features not only to the smart grid but to the many devices connected to a smart grid. But how do you ensure all devices on the network are secure? This paper looks into two key softwar... » read more

A Novel Approach To Dummy Fill For Analog Designs
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 21 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

With small geometry silicon processes, additional nonfunctional geometric structures are required to maintain layer planarity during the chemical/mechanical polishing (CMP) phase of processing. The automated layout flows to generate such geometries tend to be designed primarily for large system on chip (SOC) digital designs. When applied to mixed-signal layouts, these flows have been seen to ha... » read more

Pattern Matching: Blueprints For Further Success
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 14 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Design patterns have a wide variety of applications in the design, verification and test flows of IC development. From significantly reducing rule deck complexity to simplifying the task of avoiding known yield detractors to enhancing workflows such as design rule waiver recognition, pattern matching has become a useful tool throughout design, verification, and test process. Learn how Calibre P... » read more

Selecting An Operating System For Embedded Applications
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 06 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

It seems these days, just about every embedded system has some type of operating system. And there are more options today as to which OS to choose. Is open source your best choice? What about a free RTOS? In this paper, learn the pros and cons of the many OS options available today and how to select the right OS for your next embedded project. To read more, click here. » read more

Internet Of Things Design Considerations For Embedded Connected Devices
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 04 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Embedded connectivity has been around since the early days of M2M. But what is new are the many complexities and emerging standards embedded system developers need to know if they are to design the latest IoT device. This paper delves into many of the key considerations developers need to know and discusses the critical areas of IoT security and connectivity along with the importance of a prove... » read more

Interpreting UPF For A Mixed-Signal Design Under Test
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 23 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

This paper describes a methodology (as implemented in the Mentor Graphics Questa ADMS mixed-signal simulator) for interpreting the Unified Power Format (UPF) for analog mixed-signal designs coded in Verilog-AMS, VHDL-AMS, or SPICE. No changes to the UPF syntax or file are required. A complete implementation and a demonstration of its use in a sample case are provided as proof of concept. To ... » read more

Manage Supply Chains To Enhance ERP And MRP Operations
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 17 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 1

The key for success in mass production is consistency and control of variables. One key variable that is difficult to control is the integrity of accounting for materials. Not all materials are used in the way that MRP intended and they are often used for products other than those intended. In addition to simple materials issues, demand patterns to the factory have changed significantly in r... » read more

How Effective Power Management Increases The Lifetime Operation Of Portable Medical Devices
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 09 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

To enable remote patient care and provide increased mobility in hospital settings portable medical devices, Personal Area Networks (PANs), and home health systems are seeing a significant increase in investment spending. When designing a portable medical device, decisions on processor and component selection are dependent on a range of variables which include performance, price, quality, and re... » read more

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