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Rigid-Flex PCB Design Guidelines
By Siemens EDA - 17 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

This white paper is designed to guide you through the intricacies of rigid-flex printed circuit board (PCB) design. In today's electronics industry, there has never been more demand for compact, efficient, and versatile PCBs. Rigid-flex technology has emerged as a game-changer, offering engineers the flexibility to design boards that can bend and flex without sacrificing performance or reliabil... » read more

Techniques To Identify Reset Metastability Due To Soft Resets
By Siemens EDA - 05 Jun, 2024 - Comments: 0

Modern SoCs are equipped with complex reset architectures to meet the requirements of high-speed interfaces with increased functionality. These complex reset architectures with multiple reset domains, ensure functional recovery from hardware failures and unexpected electronic faults. But the transmission of data across sequential elements that are reset by different asynchronous and soft reset ... » read more

Distribution of Currents In Via Arrays
By Siemens EDA - 29 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

It has become increasingly difficult in recent years to provide adequate PDNs on a PCB. The sheer number of different voltages, combined with increased current demands, makes distributing current around the board a substantial layout challenge. This paper demonstrates that by using appropriate and accurate simulations, combined with the improved intuition that such simulations bring, it is a ch... » read more

High-Level Synthesis Enables The Next Generation Of Edge AI Accelerators
By Siemens EDA - 15 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

AI is becoming pervasive. But the ever increasing complexity is a challenge for IoT systems. Achieving the highest levels of performance and efficiency in edge AI means going beyond software and off the shelf hardware. Bespoke hardware accelerators in FPGA or ASICs can deliver much higher performance while consuming less energy. Building these accelerators with High-Level Synthesis slashes desi... » read more

Advancing Automotive Functional Safety Through Analog & Mixed-Signal Fault Simulation
By Siemens EDA - 09 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

The automotive industry is undergoing a major transformation, driven by the rise of electric vehicles, ADAS, connected cars, and autonomous vehicles. Due to the safety-critical nature of automotive applications, the reliability and tolerance to faults in semiconductor designs becomes paramount. This white paper delves into the role of analog fault simulation in the context of automotive functio... » read more

Reduce 3D-IC Design Complexity: Early Package Assembly Verification
By Siemens EDA - 24 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

Uncover the unique challenges, along with the latest Calibre verification solutions, for 3D-IC design in this new technical paper. As 2.5D and 3D-ICs redefine the possibilities of semiconductor design, discover how Siemens is leading the way in verifying complex multi-dimensional systems, while shifting verification left to do so earlier in the design process. What you'll learn: Overcom... » read more

Hybrid Methodology To Extract Kinetic And Magnetic Inductances For Superconductor Technologies
By Siemens EDA - 10 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

Integrated circuits (ICs) using superconductors have emerged as the technology of choice for artificial intelligence (AI), data centers, and cloud computing. However, innovative technology requires equally innovative physical verification solutions to ensure that these superconductor ICs deliver the performance and reliability they promise. We introduce an innovative hybrid methodology to extra... » read more

Paradigms Of Large Language Model Applications In Functional Verification
By Siemens EDA - 03 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

This paper presents a comprehensive literature review for applying large language models (LLM) in multiple aspects of functional verification. Despite the promising advancements offered by this new technology, it is essential to be aware of the inherent limitations of LLMs, especially hallucination that may lead to incorrect predictions. To ensure the quality of LLM outputs, four safeguarding p... » read more

Navigating Design Challenges
By Siemens EDA - 28 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

Explore the future of IC design with the Calibre Shift left initiative. In this paper, author David Abercrombie reveals how Siemens is changing the game for block/chip design-stage verification by moving Calibre verification and reliability analysis solutions further left in the design flow, including directly inside your P&R tool cockpit. Discover how you can reduce traditional long-loop v... » read more

Complex Safety Mechanisms Require Interoperability And Automation For Validation And Metric Closure
By Siemens EDA - 06 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

The race to autonomous mobility among the automobile manufacturers is driving the evolution of the underlying semiconductors. As a result, semiconductor technologies are moving towards higher densities and lower operating voltages, and this migration is introducing increasing sensitivity to random hardware failures – the failures which occur unpredictably over a semiconductor’s lifetime. Mo... » read more

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