category: System-Level Design

category: Auto, Security & Edge AI

Deep Learning Spreads
By Ed Sperling - 31 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

Deep learning is gaining traction across a broad swath of applications, providing more nuanced and complex behavior than machine learning offers today. Those attributes are particularly important for safety-critical devices, such as assisted or autonomous vehicles, as well as for natural language processing where a machine can recognize the intent of words based upon the context of a convers... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 31
By Jesse Allen - 31 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan looks back at where TSMC was 30 years ago and the founding philosophy that made the foundry and fabless model work. In a video, Mentor's Colin Walls considers how to make the simplest possible multitasking scheduler with a one line RTOS. Synopsys' Sandeep Taneja checks out the technology behind airbags in cars and the role of the Motorola Serial Peripheral Interfac... » read more

Achieving RTL-To-Netlist Equivalence
By Aldec - 30 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

Running quality tests and regression at RTL level, and even fixing all discovered design bugs does not guarantee the flawless hardware design. To make sure there are no bugs in the target hardware, there is a need to ensure flawless transformation of RTL code to the technology-dependent netlist. This in turns sets the requirements for the “design-for-implementation” coding, where designers ... » read more

System Bits: Jan. 30
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

Lab-in-the-cloud Although Internet-connected smart devices have penetrated numerous industries and private homes, the technological phenomenon has left the research lab largely untouched, according to MIT researchers. Spreadsheets, individual software programs, and even pens and paper remain standard tools for recording and sharing data in academic and industry labs — until now. TetraScie... » read more

Giant Auto Industry Disruption Ahead
By Ed Sperling - 29 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 5

The move to self-driving vehicles over the next decade or so will result in a massive restructuring of entire segments of the global economy that have evolved to create and support automobiles and the people who drive them. The shift will create many new jobs-particularly for semiconductors and electronic systems-and conservatively it will eliminate hundreds of thousands of existing ones. It... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 26 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

Security Addressing the Meltdown and Spectre speculative execution vulnerabilities has not gone smoothly. Intel's firmware update caused unexpected behavior and a higher than expected number of reboots for its Haswell and Broadwell chips, leading the company to recommend users stop patching until an updated version of the patch is available. Microsoft's attempts to fix the issue left some W... » read more

Hedging The Chip Industry
By Ed Sperling - 25 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 1

The chip industry has changed significantly since the last big downturn. And while there is no indication a downturn is on the horizon, analysts are beginning to ask questions about what comes next. Inventory is building at systems companies because of weaknesses in some of the key markets such as mobile phones and tablet computers, and there is a growing risk of trade wars due to recently impo... » read more

DVCon Committee Picks
By Brian Bailey - 25 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

A typical development team contains more verification engineers than design engineers, and that skew is getting wider. You can expect the trend to increase given that verification teams are now getting loaded with added complexity from heterogeneous multi-core systems, functional safety, neural networks and security-in addition to increasing size. Companies that do not keep up with the lates... » read more

Raising SoC Development Productivity With Portable Stimulus
By Mark Olen - 25 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

The semiconductor industry has achieved significant productivity increases by virtue of the development, deployment, and scalability of reusable design IP. The EDA industry has also achieved significant productivity increases by virtue of the development, deployment, and scalability of reusable verification IP. A remaining bottleneck in the SoC development process stems from the inability to re... » read more

Formal In The Spotlight
By Sergio Marchese - 25 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

Who doesn’t like a great family picture during the festive season? Of course, those occasions call for reasonably elegant attire. When in the spotlight, most people like to get somewhat more formal. It seems that in the semiconductor world, it’s the reverse. As formal verification transitioned from a niche technology to mainstream over the past few years, formal verification engineers an... » read more

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