category: System-Level Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Blog Review: Oct. 30
By Jesse Allen - 30 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out the future of the automotive industry, the options for making the transition to autonomous driving, and how experience with electric vehicles influences perception of them. In a video, Mentor's Colin Walls digs into the challenges of testing memory in an embedded system. A Synopsys writer looks at doubling bandwidth in PCIe 5.0, the PHY logical changes a... » read more

Visually Assisted Layout In Custom Design
By Ed Sperling - 29 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Avina Verma, group director for R&D in Synopsys’ Design Group, explains why visual feedback and graphical guidance are so critical in complex layouts, particularly for mixed-signal environments. » read more

Rapid Evolution For Verification Plans
By Brian Bailey - 28 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Verification plans are rapidly evolving from mechanisms to track verification progress into multi-faceted coordination vehicles for several teams with disparate goals, using complex resource management spread across multiple abstractions and tools. New system demands from industries such as automotive are forcing tighter integration of those plans with requirements management and product lif... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 25 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

ANSYS will acquire Dynardo, a provider of simulation process integration and design optimization (PIDO) technology. Dynardo's tools include algorithms for optimization, uncertainty quantification, robustness, scenario variation, sensitivity analysis, simulation workflow building and data mining. Based in Weimar, Germany, Dynardo was founded in 2001 and has been an ANSYS software partner; the ac... » read more

A Glossary For Chip And Semiconductor IP Security And Trust
By Sergio Marchese - 25 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 1

A significant portion of electronic system vulnerabilities involves hardware. In 2015 the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE-MITRE) database recorded 6,488 vulnerabilities. A considerable proportion (43%) can be classified as software-assisted hardware vulnerabilities (see Fig. 1). The discovery of Meltdown and Spectre in January 2018 has sparked a series of investigations into hardware ... » read more

Disaggregation Of The SoC
By Ed Sperling - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

The rise of edge computing could do to the cloud what the PC did to the minicomputer and the mainframe. In the end, all of those co-existed (despite the fact that the minicomputer morphed into commodity servers from companies like Dell and HP). What's different this time around is that the computing done inside of those boxes is moving. It is being distributed in ways never considered feasi... » read more

Abstract Verification
By Brian Bailey - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 1

Verification relies on a separation of concerns. Otherwise the task has no end. Sometimes we do it without thinking, but as an industry, we have never managed to fully define it such that it can become an accepted and trusted methodology. This becomes particularly true when we bring abstraction into the picture. A virtual prototype is meant to be true to behavior, but there could be timing d... » read more

Does System Design Still Need Abstraction?
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

About 15 years ago, the assumption in the EDA industry was that system design would be inevitable. The transition from gate-level design to a new entry point at the register transfer level (RTL) seemed complete with logic synthesis becoming well-adopted. The next step seemed to be so obvious at the time: High-level synthesis (HLS) and transaction-based development beyond RTL—also taking into ... » read more

5G Needs Cohesive Pre- And Post-Silicon Verification
By Jean-Marie Brunet - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 1

While 5G doesn’t start from a clean slate, it does make significant changes to the 4G architecture. These changes mean that the ecosystem from chips to operators is evolving, giving opportunities to more companies to engage in this growing market. Realignment in fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul In particular, the radio access network (RAN) has been redefined as Cloud RAN (sometimes called ... » read more

Utilizing Computational Memory
By Brian Bailey - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

For systems to become faster and consume less power, they must stop wasting the power required to move data around and start adding processing near memory. This approach has been proven, and products are entering the marketplace designed to fill a number of roles. Processing near memory, also known as computational memory, has been hiding in the shadows for more than a decade. Ever since the... » read more

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