Self-Driving Cars?
By Ed Sperling - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

The dream of hopping in your car and lounging on a bench seat that faces sideways or backward while it delivers you to your destination is a really nice idea. It's akin to upgrading from economy class seat on an airline to your own private jet. But this idea also faces some huge hurdles. First and foremost is liability. If an autonomous vehicle gets into an accident, who's responsible? If it... » read more

Challenges For IC Security
By Ernest Worthman - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

Keeping chips secure is really a foot race between the good guys and the bad guys. Going forward, expect heavily funded, grouped efforts to place tremendous pressure on security envelopes. This includes everything from simple home devices, such as routers, to the most critical infrastructures, such as power, telecom, transportation, and soon, the IoT. Fig. 1: Courtesy of Blade Genexis I... » read more

FD-SOI Meets The IoT
By Ann Mutschler - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 1

Silicon-on-insulator manufacturing technology has been discussed for many years. IBM has used the partially depleted variation of SOI in its server products, but the fully depleted version has yet to find widespread adoption outside of mil/aero and automotive markets. That may change soon as applications in the Internet of Things ramp, given the requirements for ultra low power and low cost.... » read more

BLE For The IoT
By Ernest Worthman - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) is one of the emerging disruptive technologies for the IoT. Also referred to as Bluetooth low-power and Bluetooth smart, as the Bluetooth SIG is calling it, this technology will enable the next level of IoT vertical devices, such as medical devices, home automation, retail, wearables, and much more. For consumers, it comes down to the Internet of Your Things (Io... » read more

IoT Will Force New Memory Paradigm
By Ernest Worthman - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 1

There are two things in life that have always been true: One is that you can never be too rich, and second—at least since the dawn of the technological age—you can never have too much memory. But the memory truism is changing with the onset of the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"]. The next generation of memory for the IoT must meet a different set of metrics – smaller, smar... » read more

CoreSight SoC
By Arm - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

To address the challenge of increasing development cost and complexity faced by the semiconductor industry, SoC designers need to think ahead and provide the right hardware platform to help software developers create optimized software in a timely manner. The goal of this paper is to show, through high level steps, how to create a custom debug and trace subsystem for a design quickly and easily... » read more

IoT Requires New Internet Protocol
By Ernest Worthman - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

It is no secret that the 4 billion-plus Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses are just about used up. According, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), “phase 4” of its IPv4 countdown plan kicked in last June. There are now fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining, which for all practical purposes means the pool is depleted. That should hasten the move to IPv6, b... » read more

Round-Trip Engineering Key To AUTOSAR-based Development
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

This paper discusses how round-trip engineering can be used as an iterative development process and describes interoperability between tools from Mentor and MathWorks. Model-based design has become an important component in vehicle manufacturer and supplier development processes. Electronic control units are complex in terms of functionality, connectivity, and variants; therefore automotive ... » read more

Use IoT Security Concerns To Your Benefit
By Ann Mutschler - 05 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

Did you know data scientists can now link Instagram posts and other meta-data to credit card purchases? Indeed, MIT researchers said recently that just four fairly vague pieces of information — the dates and locations of four purchases — are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card transactions by 1.1 million users. They stresse... » read more

Signal Integrity Issues
By Ed Sperling - 04 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss signal integrity with Rob Aitken, research fellow at [getentity id="22186" comment="ARM"]; PV Srinivas, senior director of engineering for the Place & Route Division of [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; and Bernard Murphy, chief technology officer at [getentity id="22026" e_name="Atrenta"]. What follows are excerpts of that conver... » read more

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