category: System-Level Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Running With O-RAN
By Mika Castren - 30 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

5G standards are opening the world of hardware development to anyone that can build the best, cost-effective products. At the heart of many of those products is the system on a chip (SoC) that needs to be verified within the context of the overall system. Many new companies are in 5G chip development now, delivering custom solutions that match the many configurations need for different rural an... » read more

Smarter, Safer Surround-View For Cars
By Mike Barnes - 30 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 1

With modern advancements in automotive safety, we are seeing advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) such as surround-view become the new standard in modern cars. This demonstration shows how this application can be enhanced with the addition of accurate real-time reflections and AI to detect hazards that make cars safer. First, let’s start with the graphics problem. Have you ever l... » read more

Multi-Mode Clock Domain Crossing Verification Enables Analysis Efficiency And Accuracy
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 29 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

This paper shows how automated modal CDC analysis is used to exhaustively verify CDC issues in all test and operational modes of an SoC with multiple IPs. This new approach automatically consolidates all results from each mode, making issues very easy to interpret and debug. What took days and weeks with the prior manual approach now takes only a few hours. To read more, click here. » read more

Navigation Rendering Techniques
By Imagination Technologies - 29 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

Visualization of navigation data is a complex task. The graphics should be appealing, informative, running at a high frame rate, and utilizing low power consumption at the same time. This whitepaper deals with the efficient rendering of navigation maps on the tile-based deferred rendering architecture of the PowerVR chipset families. The navigation demo, which can be found in the PowerVR SDK, i... » read more

Blog Review: July 29
By Jesse Allen - 29 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

Rambus' Scott Best digs into low-cost attacks against security chips that are often used to gauge how resistant and well-designed they are and defensive countermeasures that can be taken. Mentor's Colin Walls urges embedded developers to put a priority on writing clear, maintainable code and considers when using a higher level language like C++ may be helpful. Synopsys' Scott Knowlton fin... » read more

Machine Learning — Everywhere: Enabling Self-Optimizing Design Platforms
By Synopsys - 29 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

Machine-learning offers opportunities to enable self-optimizing design tools. Very much like self-driving cars that observe real-world interactions to improve their responses in different (local) driving conditions, AI-enhanced tools are able to learn and improve in (local) design environments after deployment. These new, ML-driven capabilities can be embedded in different design engines, gi... » read more

Formal Verification Of Floating-Point Hardware With Assertion-Based VIP
By OneSpin Solutions - 29 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 2

Hardware for integer or fixed-point arithmetic is relatively simple to design, at least at the register-transfer level. If the range of values and precision that can be represented with these formats is not sufficient for the target application, floating-point hardware might be required. Unfortunately, floating-point units are complex to design, and notoriously challenging to verify. Since the ... » read more

Challenges For A Post-Moore’s Law World
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss challenges at the edge, the impact of open-source, and how to attract new talent, with Simon Segars, CEO of Arm; Joseph Sawicki, executive vice president of IC EDA at Mentor, a Siemens Business; Raik Brinkmann, CEO of OneSpin Solutions; Babak Taheri, CEO of Silvaco; John Kibarian, CEO of PDF Solutions; and Prakash Narain, CEO of Real Intent. The con... » read more

A Virtual DAC Experience
By Brian Bailey - 24 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

This has been the first virtual conference for me, and I will say I was not sure what to expect. I did moderate a panel for it, but that was pre-recorded because the panelists did not care to be awake and performing live for what would have been 3 a.m. for them. I hosted a virtual happy hour, I conducted many interviews, attended sessions, keynotes and other events, but one thing stands out to ... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 24 Jul, 2020 - Comments: 0

Perforce Software acquired Methodics. Founded in 2006 and based in San Francisco, Methodics' IP lifecycle management and traceability software will join Perforce's larger portfolio of DevOps software that includes version control, Agile planning, and static code analysis. The two companies have had a strategic partnership in place with customers using software from both companies. Terms of the ... » read more

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