Virtual Prototyping For Electric Vehicles: From System To Software


Road vehicles have long been considered one of the most challenging types of development projects. The tight interaction between electrical and mechanical components and the inherent safety requirements of high-speed/high-power operation are just the baseline issues. Layered on top of that are the many challenges of the physical environment: wide temperature and humidity range, noise, vibration... » read more

AAA’s Evaluation Of Active Driving Assistance Systems


Source: AAA (American Automobile Association) AAA conducted closed-course testing and naturalistic driving on 2019 BMW X7 with “Active Driving Assistant Professional”, 2019 Cadillac CT6 with “Super Cruise™”, 2019 Ford Edge with “Ford Co-Pilot360™”, 2020 Kia Telluride with “Highway Driving Assist” and 2020 Subaru Outback with “EyeSight®”. For technical pa... » read more

PCIe Simulation Speed-Up Using Mentor QVIP With PLDA PCIe Controller For DMA Applications


In this case study, PLDA explains how verification engineers can use Mentor’s Questa Verification IP (QVIP) to improve productivity during the functional verification of PCIe designs with DMA engines. The flexibility of Questa VIP was key to creating custom testbenches from scratch that can dynamically adapt to different IP topologies and configurations, mixing PCIe interfaces with multiple A... » read more

Chiplet Reliability Challenges Ahead


Assembling chips using LEGO-like hard IP is finally beginning to take root, more than two decades after it was first proposed, holding the promise of faster time to market with predictable results and higher yield. But as these systems of chips begin showing up in mission-critical and safety-critical applications, ensuring reliability is proving to be stubbornly difficult. The main driver fo... » read more

Secure Networking Basics: MACsec, IPsec, And SSL/TLS/DTLS


The MACsec, IPsec and SSL/TLS/DTLS protocols are the primary means of securing data in motion (communicated between connected devices). These protocols can be anchored in hardware or implemented in software as part of an end-to-end security architecture. This white paper provides fundamental information on each of these protocols including their interrelationships and use cases. ... » read more

Run Simulations at Top Speed


The Ansys Fluent solver can be so computationally demanding that complex simulations can take hours to complete. Ansys and Intel worked together to build a new smoother and optimize it for Intel Xeon Scalable processors to help reduce those long simulation times. This whitepaper reviews the results of performance testing conducted with Ansys Fluent 2020 R1 when making use of the Intel MKL sp... » read more

An Introduction To The ARMv8-M Architecture


The ARMv8-M architecture is used for the next-generation ARMv8-M processor family of real-time deterministic embedded processors. It is aimed at low cost deeply embedded systems, where low-latency interrupt processing is vital. The ARMv8-M architecture reduces the complexity of developing secure embedded solutions that scale all the way from the smallest IoT device to complex SoCs. ARM uses ... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 12


Arm's Greg Yeric takes a look at what semiconductor manufacturing might look like in 2030 as the price of equipment rises and possibilities for when the next upgrade to EUV, high numerical aperture, eventually runs out of steam. Synopsys' Taylor Armerding explains the difference between bugs and security flaws and why it's so important to pay attention to potential problems in a design's spe... » read more

A 10.5 μW Programmable SAR ADC Frontend With SC Preamplifier For Low-Power IoT Sensor Nodes


Massive deployment of wireless autonomous sensor nodes requires their lifetime extension and cost reduction. The analog frontend (AFE) plays a key role in this context. This paper presents a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) with a switched-capacitor programmable gain switched preamplifier (SC PGSA), as a basic component of an integrated ultra-low power AFE... » read more

The Very Long Road To Autonomous Vehicles


It may be a long wait before fully autonomous vehicles hit the road. Even semi-autonomous vehicles aren't doing so well. The American Automobile Association drove 4,000 miles in cars equipped with active driver assistance, averaging problems every 8 miles. AAA cited a host of problems, including driving too close to other cars or guardrails, aggressive braking, and automated steering that wo... » read more

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