Embracing the Challenges Of Cybersecurity In Automotive Applications


The growth of electronics in cars is exposing a new vector for cyberattacks on car owners and automotive companies’ reputations. The potential human cost of an attack on the car’s electronics is driving urgency in the adoption of cybersecurity-aware practices, from OEMs and Tier 1s to every component supplier in the automotive industry. The standard “ISO/SAE 21434:2021 Road vehicles — C... » read more

Indoor Gas Sensors Proliferate With Better Standards


The gas sensor market is rapidly expanding, driven by increased concerns about indoor air quality and better technology for detecting and measuring it. Indoor air quality sensing targets gases and concentrations that differ — with some overlap — from outside. But until the pandemic, which largely coincided with a flood of new research about what is toxic to people and animals, this has b... » read more

When Does My SoC Design Need A NoC?


By Michael Frank and Frank Schirrmeister Excluding the simplest offerings, almost every modern system-on-chip (SoC) device will implement its on-chip communications utilizing a network-on-chip (NoC). Some people question whether it is necessary to use a NoC or whether a more basic approach would suffice. What is in an SoC? An SoC is an integrated circuit (IC) that incorporates most or all ... » read more

Smart Manufacturing: What’s Needed For The Industrial Intelligence Revolution?


Smart manufacturing – the use of nascent technology within the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) to address traditional manufacturing challenges – is leading a supply chain revolution, resulting in smart, connected, and intelligent environments, capable of self-operation and self-healing. While factory automation has been around for decades, smart manufacturing goes a great deal furth... » read more

Creating Comprehensive And Verifiable Hardware Security Requirements


Developing effective hardware security requirements is one of the trickiest aspects of building trustworthy electronic products. Even highly skilled and experienced teams don’t always get it right. Why? First, it’s very difficult to anticipate every security risk – much less cover every possible scenario with a specific security requirement. Instead, hardware security requirements o... » read more

Why Better Mapping Technology Is Critical To Autonomous Vehicles


Autonomous cars find the way to their destination using a number of critical technologies, including some version of a global position system and a central brain to interpret that and other data. But many of those technologies are not reliable or accurate enough today, and may not be for years to come. There are numerous reports of vehicles missing their stop, or trucks being guided into all... » read more

A Solar Solution For Every Situation


Regardless of where they are used, energy conversion efficiency is paramount in solar power applications (if you are interested in their technical details, here is a blog post for you). Even small improvements reduce energy waste, decrease operating costs, lower spatial and cooling systems requirements, and much more. The semiconductor switches used in energy conversion in photovoltaic (... » read more

Using Sparseloop in Hardware Accelerator Design Flows (MIT)


A technical paper titled "Sparseloop: An Analytical Approach To Sparse Tensor Accelerator Modeling" was published by researchers at MIT and NVIDIA.  The paper won "Distinguished Artifact Award" at the MICRO 2022 conference. Find the technical paper here.  Published 2022.  Project website is here and github here. Abstract: "In recent years, many accelerators have been proposed to effici... » read more

Optimizing Hardware Capacity, Utilizing Automatic Differentiation to Efficiently Compute Derivatives in Parallel Programming Models


A technical paper titled "Scalable Automatic Differentiation of Multiple Parallel Paradigms through Compiler Augmentation" was published by researchers at MIT (CSAIL), Argonne National Lab, and TU Munich. The paper was a Best Paper Finalist and a Best Student Paper winner at SuperComputing 2022. Find the technical paper here. Published November 2022. The work "demonstrates how Enzyme opti... » read more

Connecting Quantum Devices With Sound


A new technical paper titled "On-chip distribution of quantum information using traveling phonons" was published by researchers at TU Delft, Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF, and Eindhoven University of Technology. "Physicists from the Gröblacher lab at TU Delft have built a device that can link different quantum devices and qubits to each other. This device, a silicon chip with vibrations t... » read more

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