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Moving Beyond Geometries: Context-Aware Verification Improves Design Quality And Reliability
By Sherif Hany - 25 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

Context-aware checks integrate physical and electrical information to evaluate a wide range of design conditions, from advanced design rule compliance, to circuit and reliability verification, to design optimization and finishing. Automated context-aware checking provides designers with actionable results that improve both debugging efficiency and verification precision. Introduction Many p... » read more

Hardware Trojans And The Problem Of Trust In Integrated Circuits
By Sergio Marchese - 25 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

Electronic systems are at the core of an ever-increasing number of products and services. From power plants to automobiles, from medical devices to airplanes, from smartphones to home appliances, complex electronic systems enable an unprecedented level of automation, performance, safety, and security. Integrated circuits (ICs) are the backbone of these systems. It is of paramount importance tha... » read more

Where Are We On The Road To Artificial Intelligence In Chip Design?
By Thomas Andersen - 25 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

It’s hard to find an article today that doesn’t talk about how Artificial Intelligence is going to solve every possible problem in the world. From self-driving cars, to robots running an entire hotel (in Japan), to voice assistants answering your every question, it appears that every problem can be solved with AI. As so often in life, the true answer is: it depends. It depends on the nature... » read more

Finding And Avoiding Concurrency Bugs
By Luis Murillo - 25 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

Understanding the intended and unintended interactions between hardware and software components is changing as architectures become more heterogeneous and interconnect topologies get more complicated. This affects performance, power consumption and cost of the project. Lots of universities are researching this from a software perspective, while a small number are looking at the implications fro... » read more

CDNLive 2019: The Verification Ecosystem Is Growing Stronger And Stronger
By Frank Schirrmeister - 25 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

Ecosystems are not only fascinating when it comes to processors like Arm, MIPS, x86, and RISC-V (as I have written before) or for semiconductor technologies like TSMC, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and Samsung; they are key for success in verification as well. CDNLive Silicon Valley was, again, a great example of the verification ecosystem in action. It showcased the different engines verification tools run... » read more

All Security Issues Are Safety Issues
By Aileen Ryan - 25 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

Last month I spoke at the IQPC Safety and Security week event in Munich. It became clear to me that our semiconductor community is really paying attention to these issues now, not just to comply with standards, and not just because of the potential liability – but because it simply makes good business sense. The cost of recalling a single vehicle is estimated to be between $400 and $900 ... » read more

Memory Architectures In AI: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
By Kurt Shuler - 04 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

In the world of regular computing, we are used to certain ways of architecting for memory access to meet latency, bandwidth and power goals. These have evolved over many years to give us the multiple layers of caching and hardware cache-coherency management schemes which are now so familiar. Machine learning (ML) has introduced new complications in this area for multiple reasons. AI/ML chips ca... » read more

Fibonacci And Honey Bees Have Something In Common: A Sweet Spot For Formal
By Sergio Marchese - 28 Mar, 2019 - Comments: 0

Time flies and the OneSpin’s Holiday Puzzle tradition has reached its third year. In December 2016, OneSpin challenged engineers everywhere to solve the Einstein riddle using assertions and a formal verification tool. In December 2017, the challenge was to model the hardest Sudoku in the world using assertions and find a solution with a formal tool. In addition, participants had to prove that... » read more

Digital Twins For Hardware/Software Co-Development
By Frank Schirrmeister - 28 Mar, 2019 - Comments: 0

These days it seems like we could play business bingo when watching presentations at conferences, checking off the most keywords mentioned. Hitting the terms AI, ML, IoT, 5G, and edge computing all together almost guarantees your presentation to be a hit. In recent years, the term “digital twin” has gotten a lot of attention. Recent discussions with Brian Bailey and a paper I wrote for GOMA... » read more

Building Bridges: A New DFT Paradigm
By Robert Ruiz - 28 Mar, 2019 - Comments: 0

Over the last twenty years, structural testing with scan chains has become pervasive in chip design methodology. Indeed, it’s remarkable to think that most electronic devices we interact with today (think smartphones, laptops, televisions, etc.) contain hundreds to thousands of interconnected scan chains used to verify that the semiconductors were manufactured without defects. Because the imp... » read more

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