category: System-Level Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Evaluating NVMe SSD Multi-Gigabit Performance
By Igor Gorokhov - 30 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

The multi-channel parallelism and low-latency access of NAND flash technology have made Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) based SSDs very popular within the main segments of the data storage market, including not only the consumer electronics sector but also data center processing and acceleration services, where the key role is played by specialized FPGA-based hardware for application-specifi... » read more

Renesas Solves High-Level Verification Challenges Using Formal Equivalence Checking
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 29 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

A team at Renesas Electronics Corporation found that they were significantly reducing the time advantages of their High-Level Synthesis flow due to bugs in their SystemC code and equivalence problems due to design changes. It was taking too much time to find and debug these issues and some bugs were slipping into the generated RTL. To solve these challenges, they added SLEC®, which is the form... » read more

Aligning Automotive Safety Requirements Between IP And SoCs
By Synopsys - 29 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

Today’s SoCs for automotive safety-related systems integrate numerous IP blocks. At the system level, the Hardware Software Interface (HSI) between these IP blocks needs to be verified in simulation and validated in prototype. However, the scaling of the scope and effort to verify or validate is not linear based on the growing complexity of SoCs and their components such as IP. Depending on t... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 29
By Jesse Allen - 29 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Shivani Joshi introduces the basics of PCB layout and the importance of being familiar with a manufacturer's specs. Cadence's Paul McLellan takes a look at why Design Technology Co-Optimization is increasingly necessary as 3nm approaches and new transistor types like CFET and gate-all-around are on the horizon. Synopsys' Sai Karthik Madabhushi recounts an alarming incident that h... » read more

Shining A Light On Ray Tracing
By Imagination Technologies - 29 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

PowerVR Ray Tracing is a revolutionary 3D graphics technology that mimics how light behaves in the real world to create visuals with astonishing realism, while also enabling developers and content creators to simplify their workflow. Click here to read more. » read more

Analog Simulation At 7/5/3nm
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

Hany Elhak, group director of product management at Cadence, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about analog circuit simulation at advanced nodes, why process variation is an increasing problem, the impact of parasitics and finFET stacking, and what happens when gate-all-around FETs are added into the chip. » read more

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

Xilinx filed a patent infringement countersuit against Analog Devices, alleging infringement of eight U.S. patents including technologies involving serializers/deserializers (SerDes), high-speed ADCs and DACs, as well as mixed-signal devices targeting 5G and other markets. The counterclaims are in response to Analog Devices' December lawsuit alleging unauthorized use by Xilinx of eight ADI pate... » read more

Dealing With ECOs In Complex Designs
By Ed Sperling - 22 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

Namsuk Oh, R&D principal engineer at Synopsys, talks about the impact of more corners and engineering change orders, how that needs to be addressed in the flow to close timing, and how dependencies can complicate any changes that are required. » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 22
By Jesse Allen - 22 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Taylor Armerding explains different types of social engineering scams that target everyone from CEOs to gamers to smart appliance users, and what training and tools can better protect people and their organizations. Mentor's Dennis Joseph points to some important things to consider if you're thinking about switching from GDS to OASIS and some tips for converting files. Cadence's... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 17 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

Inphi Corporation and Synopsys finalized the acquisition of eSilicon. Synopsys acquired certain IP assets from eSilicon, including TCAMs and multi-port memory compilers, as well as its Interface IP portfolio with High-Bandwidth Interface (HBI) IP and a team of R&D engineers; it did not disclose terms of the deal. Inphi Corporation bought the rest of the company for approximately $216 millio... » read more

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