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Got Energy?
By Grant Pierce - 10 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

Energy is a finite resource, which means it’s not someone else’s problem. It’s everyone’s problem. This isn’t just another doom and gloom prediction. Energy consumption has been rising steadily for decades. Unfortunately, it has been increasing at a faster rate than energy production. A Semiconductor Industry Association report entitled, “Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Ac... » read more

Meeting Reliability For Automotive Applications With PCI Express
By Richard Solomon - 14 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

Automotive electronics such as powertrain and braking controls, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and other vehicle operations platforms, where reliability is of utmost importance must meet stringent reliability standards. Even an automotive infotainment system is expected to perform flawlessly even under a variety of temperatures, humidity, and vibrations. Reliability is a key compone... » read more

Accuracy, Waveforms, And Power
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

The entire topic of power analysis, estimation, and exploration never ceases to amaze me given that opinions on how to approach this are so varied. It is that diversity of opinions that makes it that much more intriguing. I’ve been particularly interested in how I now regularly hear that users are increasingly interested in taking activity from simulation and emulation and using that to dr... » read more

The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study
By Harry Foster - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

I am writing a series of blogs that presents the findings from our new 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study. Similar to my previous 2014 Wilson Research Group functional verification study blogs, I plan to begin this set of blogs with an exclusive focus on FPGA trends. Why? For the following reasons: Some of the more interesting trends in our 2016 study are related to F... » read more

What You Need To Know About Functional Safety Requirements
By Andrew Hopkins - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

Driver safety technologies, traffic congestion, environmental concern, and the fundamental premise of how we use our cars are influencing the design of next-generation vehicles. As a sign of the times, Euro NCAP (New Car Assessment Programme) continues to push the vehicle manufacturers by regularly evolving the five star rating to include more and more safety assist features. These include: ... » read more

Managing Power Without Impacting Design Intent
By Christine Young - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

The good news is that there are many techniques available to optimize power in your design. The not-so-good news? Many of these power management techniques also create new complexities in the physical and functional behavior of electronic designs. Fortunately, there’s more good news: implementing a power-aware verification methodology can help you verify power optimization without detracti... » read more

Hitting The Power Integrity Wall At 10nm
By Tobias Bjerregaard - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

At 10nm and beyond, the breakdown of some historic trends tied to Moore's Law is making it harder to fully harvest the benefits of scaling semiconductor technologies. Underlying the power, performance and area benefits of scaling are technological challenges that must be solved in order to make the semiconductor products a profitable business. Power-related challenges are among the most pres... » read more

Implementing ESD Protection In Today’s SoCs
By Karthik Srinivasan - 08 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

As the semiconductor industry transitions to FinFETs, reliability challenges are increasing. ESD designers are challenged with new issues that would require significant rethinking and redesign of their existing ESD protection strategy. With significant complexity embedded in the silicon, failure analysis and silicon debug is challenging and time consuming even to the ESD experts. Technology ... » read more

MediaTek Grabs Another Gear
By Barry Pangrle - 26 Aug, 2016 - Comments: 1

Today, it seems to be all the rage for automotive manufacturers to try to continuously one up the competition by announcing a new transmission that has more gears or “speeds." (Popular Mechanics did a nice article about why you would want more gears.) Basically, transmission designers want to keep the engine operating at or near its peak operating efficiency point and extend the operating ran... » read more

How To Achieve Faster Design Convergence And A Better Design
By Muhammad Zakir - 15 Aug, 2016 - Comments: 0

We find ourselves at an interesting point in the evolution of semiconductor technologies electronic systems as a whole. As Moore’s Law continues to charge forward, tools and workflows continue to adapt to major trends, including: Increasing system design complexity; The increasing digital footprint of both design databases and simulation output data, and New architectures/More-than-Mo... » read more

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