How Safety Requirements For Autonomous Vehicles Will Reinvent Fuse And Relay Boxes In Automotive Power Distribution


Open up the bonnet of any modern automobile and many of us would be hard-pressed to find anything that we could fix ourselves. With pipes and cables almost artistically integrated into the engine bay, and sleek plastic covers fitted everywhere, there is very little that can still be recognized, yet alone repaired. Perhaps the only location where we feel comfortable is the “fuse box”, or pow... » read more

Veloce Prototyping Solutions Accelerate Verification Of HPC AI-Enabled SoCs


This white paper goes through the journey of understanding how to meet quality requirements and accelerate time-to-market for your company’s latest flagship high performance computing (HPC) artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled system-on-chip (SoC) design. The starting point in the journey explores the use cases for designs illustrating the impact HPC AI-enabled systems and resources have on o... » read more

Simulation Workflow For Efficiency Calculation Of A High-Performance Electric Powertrain


In battery electric vehicles the efficiency of the powertrain has a big impact on driving range and performance. As the overall efficiency of the electric powertrain is typically more than 90%, further optimization is challenging. Especially in high-performance electric vehicles, the efficiency over one or multiple laps on a racing track is crucial. It requires accurate estimation of power loss... » read more

Design Meets EDA: Gaps And Countermeasures In Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Design


Along the path from specification to silicon, the design of analog/mixed-signal chips comprises a variety of challenges. They are of technological, methodological, organizational, communicational, and business nature. Additionally, large gaps are to be managed among the individual challenges. Still up to now, approaches such as the “four eye principle” are used even in industrial practice i... » read more

Arm Neoverse N1 Core: Performance Analysis Methodology


The Arm Neoverse ecosystem is growing substantially with many Arm hardware and software partners developing applications and porting their workloads onto Arm-based cloud instances. With Neoverse N1 based systems becoming widely available, many real-world workloads are showing very competitive performance and significant cost savings when compared to legacy systems. Some recent examples include:... » read more

Big Changes Ahead For Inside Auto Cabins


The space we occupy inside our vehicles is poised to change from mere enclosure to participant in the driving experience. Whether for safety or for comfort, a wide range of sensors are likely to appear that will monitor the “contents” of the vehicle. The overall approach is referred to as an in-cabin monitoring system (ICMS), but the specific applications vary widely. “In-cabin sensing... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 8


Arm's Shidhartha Das introduces a method to achieve fast yet accurate power modelling for both design and runtime power introspection within the same unified framework using machine learning and data science approaches. Synopsys' Mike Borza warns that the semiconductor industry is facing a flood of counterfeit chips and why being aware of different types of semiconductor scams and tackling t... » read more

Scaling Processor Performance And Safety To Meet Requirements For Next-Generation Safety-Critical Automotive Designs


This white paper proposes a state-of-the-art processor architecture targeting automotive safety systems that meets the requirements of such active safety systems delivering the required processing performance, providing the highest automotive safety integrity level (ASIL) while also significantly contributing to a reduction in overall cost of the systems through the use of artificial neural net... » read more

Reconstruction of Bloch wavefunctions of holes in a semiconductor


Summary "A central goal of condensed-matter physics is to understand how the diverse electronic and optical properties of crystalline materials emerge from the wavelike motion of electrons through periodically arranged atoms. However, more than 90 years after Bloch derived the functional forms of electronic waves in crystals [1] (now known as Bloch wavefunctions), rapid scattering processes ha... » read more

Pushing the limits of EUV mask repair: addressing sub-10 nm defects with the next generation e-beam-based mask repair tool


Abstract "Mask repair is an essential step in the manufacturing process of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) masks. Its key challenge is to continuously improve resolution and control to enable the repair of the ever-shrinking feature sizes on mask along the EUV roadmap. The state-of-the-art mask repair method is gas-assisted electron-beam (e-beam) lithography also referred to as focused electron-beam... » read more

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