Growing Challenges For Increasingly Connected Vehicles


Automobiles will become increasingly connected over the next decade, but that connectivity will come at a price in terms of dollars, security, and constantly changing technology. Connectivity involves all parts of a vehicle. It includes everything from autonomous driving to in-cabin monitoring and connected infotainment. And it encompasses external sensors, IoT, V2X, over-the-air communicati... » read more

Chip Monitoring For Max Performance And Security


In a semiconductor market dominated by SoCs for high-performance computing, AI, automotive and 5G, semiconductor companies face myriad challenges and device requirements. The specific challenges for any given SoC vary but can include issues around performance debug and security against hacking. Top of the list includes the need to ensure quality, enhance safety, optimize performance, and increa... » read more

The Architect’s Dilemma And Closing The Loop With Implementation


Gordon Moore has left a mark on our industry. Moore's Law has shaped decades of development. The EDA industry has been moving up the layers of abstraction to increase the productivity and predictability of design flows in our efforts to address the ever-increasing complexity of semiconductors and electronics developments. I had written about it in "Chasing The Next Level Of Productivity" not lo... » read more

ChatGPT vs Security Analyst


At Riscure, we like to explore new technologies that can help us better help our customers. Undoubtedly, the latest famous new applications are various versions of ChatGPT, a recently accessible chatbot that you can interact with in natural language, and which has been trained on a large section of the knowledge available on the internet. Adversarially-minded people soon published the many f... » read more

Connect To Any Chip With Programmable GPIO


Your MCU/SoC today may have several options for GPIO connections: UART, SPI, I2C. But there are dozens of variations and kinds of GPIO interface protocols: you don’t have enough pins to provide all of them as hardwired options. As a result, a significant number of your customers either can’t use your chip because they need to connect to another with a GPIO interface you don’t support, ... » read more

What’s Required To Secure Chips


Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about how to verify that a semiconductor design will be secure, with Mike Borza, Synopsys scientist; John Hallman, product manager for trust and security at Siemens EDA; Pete Hardee, group director for product management at Cadence; Paul Karazuba, vice president of marketing at Expedera; and Dave Kelf, CEO of Breker Verification. ... » read more

Predicting Hull Resistance Curve Using Marine CFD


In this user case, Marintek uses Fidelity Fine/Marine and Hexpress for resistance curve prediction of a planning hull and its validation against the model test cases. Team involved End User: Eloïse Croonenborghs, Research Scientist at MARINTEK, Maritime division, Trondheim, Norway Team Expert: Sverre Anders Alterskjær, Research Scientist at MARINTEK, Maritime division, Trondheim, Norway... » read more

Navigating The Intersection Of Safety And Security


Automotive ICs can be secure without needing to be safe, but a safety critical IC cannot be safe without also being secure. Addressing the intersection of safety and security in highly complex automotive SoCs is challenging even for veteran project teams. This paper focuses on how these two domains intersect, what to consider when analyzing and implementing both safety and security architect... » read more

Blog Review: April 5


Synopsys's Gordon Cooper argues that AI transformer models, initially developed for natural language processing such as translation and question answering, are starting to make inroads in the computer vision application landscape and changing the direction of deep-learning architectures. Siemens' Patrick Hope shows how to identify opportunities to optimize a PCB design through the creation o... » read more

Startup Funding: March 2023


Funding was broadly spread between sectors in March, with automotive edging ahead thanks to a more than $100 million round for a company manufacturing electric, autonomous heavy commercial trucks for freight logistics. To keep up with the amount of information presented by cars and ADAS, several companies raised funds for head-up displays with increasing levels of detail and expanded fields of ... » read more

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