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Low Power Apps: Shaping The Future Of Low Power Verification
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 13 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

This paper describes how verification and design engineers can make use of UPF 3.0 information model-based HDL and Tcl APIs to write useful low-power apps. We present low-power apps that can be used to solve complex verification issues and provide case studies and examples to demonstrate usage. To read more, click here. » read more

Autonomous Drive Requires Smart Sensor Systems
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 06 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

While exotic technology for autonomous drive cars draw wonder all around the world, individual smart sensor systems with “simple” jobs to do are equally important. LiDAR sensors with specialized AI chips for object identification are fascinating. But “simple” smart sensor systems, like passenger airbag deployment systems, are also key to autonomous drive vehicles. A typical trait of a s... » read more

Chips&Media: Design and Verification of Deep Learning Object Detection IP
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 30 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Chips&Media, a leading provider of high-performance video IP for SoC design, took a unique approach to designing their latest IP for detecting objects in real time. They decided to adopt a new High-Level Synthesis (HLS) flow to implement their deep learning algorithm. But, they would have an RTL team create this algorithm, using traditional tools and another team would employ the Catapult H... » read more

Computer Vision Sees a Bright Future
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 16 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Computer vision is powering advances in automotive, medical, consumer, and agriculture markets. Because the world of computer vision coupled with machine learning evolves so quickly, teams need a way to design and verify an algorithm while the specifications and requirements evolve without starting over every time there is a change. The only way to successfully develop these systems is to use h... » read more

Generative Design for Autonomous Vehicle Electrical Systems
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 09 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

The massive complexity inherent in autonomous vehicle design will push the tools and methodologies used by automotive engineers to their limits. This is especially true in the electrical and electronic systems domains as they come to dominate the operation of a vehicle’s safety-critical systems and amenities. To compete, autonomous car manufacturers will need a new design methodology that ena... » read more

Improving Library Characterization with Machine Learning
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 19 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Efficient and accurate library characterization is a critical step in full-chip or block-level design flows because it ensures that all library elements perform to specification under all intended operating conditions. However, traditional library characterization and validation have become increasingly expensive in terms of computation and engineering effort, due to complexity and the amount o... » read more

Accurate, fast P2P resistance extraction for unconventional geometries
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 12 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Accurately measuring interconnect resistance is fundamental to ensuring circuit reliability. Applications that use unconventional metal structures and multiple probe points require enhanced fracturing techniques to extract P2P resistance quickly and accurately. To read more, click here. » read more

Collaborative IC Design Mandates Integrated Data Management
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 05 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Due to complexity and multi-domain expertise, custom IC design typically requires a team to successfully design and verify the project. Often, specific blocks are assigned to team members based on analog, digital, MEMS, RF expertise, across multiple geographies, and separate verification team members focus on block and system validation. This means that unstructured design files with multiple c... » read more

Simplifying Mixed-Signal Verification With The Symphony Platform
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 28 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

As complexity of mixed-signal SoCs grows, verification engineers cannot rely on the “divide and conquer” approach of verifying digital and analog blocks individually and then stitching them together for full-chip verification. Verification teams need to run an increasing number of mixed-signal simulations at the top level as well as at the subsystem to make sure there are no functional erro... » read more

Straight Talk On Design Tools And ISO 26262
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 07 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Understanding evolving functional safety goals is difficult. The good news is there are some first principles that apply for safety-minded engineers, including when it comes to evaluating software design tools used to create everything from the systems to the IC components, software and networks and that are so critical in automotive design today. The best advice is a twist on the “think glob... » read more

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