Know Your Code: Open Source Security Risks During Development


Exploits of software security vulnerabilities can result in loss of sensitive customer and company information, disruption of business operations, and costly litigation. Organizations are increasingly turning to open source software to save time and money, but few have sufficient visibility into, or control of, open source usage to head off potential open source risks. Read this white paper ... » read more

Accelerating Electrical Systems Design And Analysis With VeSys


Electrical systems are constantly growing, whether in passenger cars, aircraft or heavy machinery. The growing size and complexity of these systems is driving up development costs and the likelihood of errors, potentially leading to even more cost or damaged brand reputation. New electrical systems and wiring harness engineering solutions implement automation, facilitate collaboration and accel... » read more

Securing SOCs With Esecure HRoT From Silex Insight And Tortuga Logic’s Radix-S


In this new whitepaper, you will learn: How Hardware Roots of Trust (HRoTs) are being used to protect systems with a security foundation The use  of Threat modeling to effectively to verify the eSecure HRoT from Silex Insight in surrounding systems A five-step hardware security validation process that leverages hardware CWEs and Tortuga Logic’s Radix-S to detect and prevent securi... » read more

Blog Review: Nov. 4


Arm's Joshua Sowerby points to how to improve machine learning performance on mobile devices by using smart pruning to remove convolution filters from a network, reducing its size, complexity, and memory footprint. Mentor's Neil Johnson checks out how designers can write and verify RTL real-time using formal property checking in the style of test-driven development and why to give it a try. ... » read more

Mixed-Signal Methodologies: Data Management


Software teams have long used version control and data management systems and they have become an integral part of a software development environment. Practically, no significant software project is started without a software data management system and methodology in place. There are a variety of solutions, typically referred to as Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems, to choose from... » read more

Speeding Up AI With Vector Instructions


A search is underway across the industry to find the best way to speed up machine learning applications, and optimizing hardware for vector instructions is gaining traction as a key element in that effort. Vector instructions are a class of instructions that enable parallel processing of data sets. An entire array of integers or floating point numbers is processed in a single operation, elim... » read more

Application Driven Network-on Chip Architecture Exploration & Refinement for a Complex SoC


Peer-reviewed technical journal article from Springer's "Design Automation for Embedded Systems Journal."  Summarizes the various features a NoC is required to implement to be integrated in modern SoCs. Describes a top-down approach, based on the progressive refinement of the NoC description from its functional specification (Sect. 4) to its verification (Sect. 8) Click here to read more. ... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Nov. 3


Zeptosecond measurements A group of researchers have set a new world’s record for the shortest timespan measurement. DESY, Fritz-Haber-Institute and Goethe University Frankfurt have measured how long it takes for a photon to cross a hydrogen molecule. The result? About 247 zeptoseconds. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second (10-21 seconds). This is said to be the sh... » read more

Security Tradeoffs In Chips And AI Systems


Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the cost and effectiveness of security in chip architectures and AI systems with with Vic Kulkarni, vice president and chief strategist at Ansys; Jason Oberg, CTO and co-founder of Tortuga Logic; Pamela Norton, CEO and founder of Borsetta; Ron Perez, fellow and technical lead for security architecture at Intel; and Tim Whitfield, vice president of s... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Nov. 3


Wirelessly charging multiple devices Researchers from ITMO University developed a metamaterial that can be used to turn surfaces into wireless charging areas for multiple devices from different manufacturers with different power transfer standards. "There are various wireless power transfer standards with different frequencies, so you can't just use a charger by any manufacturer," said Poli... » read more

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