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Virtual Prototyping For Electric Vehicles: From System To Software


Road vehicles have long been considered one of the most challenging types of development projects. The tight interaction between electrical and mechanical components and the inherent safety requirements of high-speed/high-power operation are just the baseline issues. Layered on top of that are the many challenges of the physical environment: wide temperature and humidity range, noise, vibration... » read more

USB4: User Expectations Drive Design Complexity


This white paper outlines the capabilities of USB4 Hosts, Hubs, Docks, and Devices with an emphasis on how end-user expectations drive the complexity of USB4 products. USB4 is the most complex USB specification so far and requires designers to understand the USB4, USB 3.2, USB 2.0, USB Type-C, and the USB Power Delivery specifications. Designers must also understand PCIe and DisplayPort specifi... » read more

Machine Learning — Everywhere: Enabling Self-Optimizing Design Platforms


Machine-learning offers opportunities to enable self-optimizing design tools. Very much like self-driving cars that observe real-world interactions to improve their responses in different (local) driving conditions, AI-enhanced tools are able to learn and improve in (local) design environments after deployment. These new, ML-driven capabilities can be embedded in different design engines, gi... » read more

Shift Left Verification With Comprehensive Lint Signoff


With soaring complexity and continuously increasing chip sizes, achieving efficient and predictable design closure has become a prominent challenge among designers today. Demand for a faster time to market is forcing designers to find ways to shorten design cycles with accurate, efficient, one-time RTL to silicon. To meet these requirements designers are looking to implement early ”shift left... » read more

Managing Web Application Security With Coverity


While security practitioners can and should play an active role in web application security, only developers are familiar enough with the code to fix software vulnerabilities. For this reason, security teams can most effectively prevent software vulnerabilities from entering production by equipping their development teams with the tools to fix security issues as they’re building applications.... » read more

Eliminate Silicon Respins With Netlist CDC Verification


Clock domain crossing (CDC) verification has been an integral part of modern chip design flow for quite sometime. Traditionally CDC verification has been done during the RTL stage. However, for advanced designs and complex flows, there is significant logic optimization during RTL synthesis as well as backend flows at the netlist stage. This mandates clock domain crossing verification a must for... » read more

Neuromorphic Computing Drives The Landscape Of Emerging Memories For Artificial Intelligence SoCs


The pace of deep machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world of computing at all levels of hardware architecture, software, chip manufacturing, and system packaging. Two major developments have opened the doors to implementing new techniques in machine learning. First, vast amounts of data, i.e., “Big Data,” are available for systems to process. Second, advanced ... » read more

RTL Architect: Simply Better RTL


Electronic devices play a key role in society. They connect us to one another through voice, video and chat. They entertain, educate, protect and heal us in new and ever-expanding ways. They have changed the way we work, live and play. Silicon chips are the fast beating heart (2 to 3 billion beats per second) of these devices. For decades, the relentless advancements in semiconductor process te... » read more

DDR5: The Next-Generation Technology For High Performance Computing


The rapid growth in real-time data requirements for cloud services, IoT, high-performance servers and workstations, hyperscale data centers and big data has increased pressure on memory suppliers to improve memory density and speed. This pressure has resulted in a need for new memory technology that goes beyond the current DDR4 limit of 16 Gb single die capacity and speed of 3200MT/s. Click ... » read more

A New Co-Simulation Approach for Tolerance Analysis on Vehicle Propulsion Subsystem


An increasing demand for reducing cost and time effort of the design process via improved CAE (ComputerAided Engineer) tools and methods has characterized the automotive industry over the past two decades. One of the main challenges involves the effective simulation of a vehicle’s propulsion system dealing with different physical domains: several examples have been proposed in the literature ... » read more

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