New Approaches For Hardware Security


Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss a wide range of hardware security issues and possible solutions with Norman Chang, chief technologist for the Semiconductor Business Unit at ANSYS; Helena Handschuh, fellow at Rambus, and Mike Borza, principal security technologist at Synopsys. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. (L-R) Norman Chang, Helena Handschuh, Mike Borza. Pho... » read more

Why Integrated SIM Will Unleash The Secure, Mobile IoT


Connected IoT devices such as sensors, object trackers, security cameras, intelligent traffic lights, wearables and smart meters are proliferating at a rapid pace. A significant number of connected IoT devices use cellular technology for communication. 5G is setting the stage for the next wave of devices to enable rapid IoT connectivity at an even greater scale. NB-IoT and LTE-M, which are low ... » read more

AI/ML’s Role In ADAS


Self-driving cars are headed this way, but not for a while. And that’s not a bad thing. As I discuss in my article, “Where Should Auto Sensor Data Be Processed?” there is still much to be worked out just on the technology side, such as how and where to process the significant amount of data coming into the vehicle from the outside world. [caption id="attachment_24152605" align="al... » read more

PurpleAir: IoT Sensor Soars To 13,000 feet


Startup PurpleAir makes a living counting dust. Its consumer-level sensors measure particles of dust in air—airborne particulate matter (PM)—using laser particle counters that can count particle sizes 0.3µm up to 10µm. Add power, WiFi, the Internet, and PurpleAir pulls all the data from the devices into an online map showing extremely local air quality around the world, wherever devices a... » read more

Using Compression For High-Bandwidth Video


Malte Doerper, senior manager for product management at Synopsys, explains how to improve bandwidth and reduce latency in video without changing out the existing infrastructure through compression, but unlike previous versions of compression there is no significant loss of quality. This approach reduces power, area and heat, as well. » read more

High-Level Synthesis For Autonomous Drive


The sensors in autonomous vehicles continuously generate a high volume of data in real time about the environment surrounding the car. The vehicles need new hardware architectures to be able to process this data quickly and make decisions that enable self driving. Catapult, the industry’s leading High-Level Synthesis (HLS) platform, provides a new paradigm of designing silicon at a higher lev... » read more

Four Steps For Static Verification Of Low Power Designs Using UPF With VC LP


Low power consumption has always been a key requirement for portable electrical and electronic devices. In recent years, this requirement has been extended to many more categories of end products. The electronics industry has developed a wide range of techniques for power management and has defined the Unified Power Format (UPF) to describe design intent for some of the most common methods. Suc... » read more

Mitigating DDoS Attacks With Secure IoT Endpoints


IoT life-cycle management should be implemented via a hardware root-of-trust to ensure secure updates of firmware and cryptographic keys. A hardware root-of-trust with a cryptographic identifier also allows each IoT device to be uniquely and cryptographically verified to determine if it is authorized to connect to a specific cloud service. Spoofed or unauthorized devices are easily identified b... » read more

Blog Review: July 31


Cadence's Meera Collier checks out a study that uses AI and natural language processing techniques to infer new discoveries in materials science from published academic literature and considers how it could be used in the future. Synopsys' Taylor Armerding considers whether the NIST Secure Software Development Framework, the latest standard aimed at improving software security, can succeed. ... » read more

Using SOS7 Design Management Platform In Cloud


With increasing complexity of ICs, most companies need a better way to handle peak processing loads during the chip design process. Read the white paper to see how you can leverage SOS7 to manage your design data on cloud efficiently. Click here to read more. » read more

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