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When Smart Cards Make Sense…
By Ernest Worthman - 01 May, 2014 - Comments: 1

Smart cards, also referred to as hardware tokens, offer one of the highest levels of security within the framework of securable objects. This is for one obvious reason – it is disconnected from the interconnected world. Unlike wireless or hard-wired objects that require online connectivity for functionality, smart cards must be in physical, or near physical contact (contactless that requir... » read more

Heartbleed And The Internet Of Things
By Ernest Worthman - 01 May, 2014 - Comments: 4

Heartbleed is not a country and western song, but many wish it were. It’s a programming glitch with the potential to cause disastrous and widespread compromises on seemingly secure data. By some estimates, the flaw in the heartbleed code has allowed hackers to collect personal data, including passwords, undetected, for as long as two years. Exactly how much data has been breached, and what... » read more

Introduction To Quantum Computing
By Katherine Derbyshire - 28 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 2

Quantum computing has attracted a lot of attention lately. Recent revelations about the extent of the U.S. National Security Agency’s data collection programs, along with several large-scale corporate data breaches, have called attention to the need for secure communications. Quantum computing has potentially far-reaching implications for data security, both reducing the effectiveness of conv... » read more

What Are EDA’s Big Three Thinking?
By Ed Sperling - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 4

Over the past six weeks, the CEOs of Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics—in that order—have delivered top-down visionary messages to their user groups. Semiconductor Engineering had the opportunity to attend all three sessions, and has compiled comments from each on a variety of subjects. In some cases, all the CEOs were in sync. In others, they were not. In still others, it was difficult... » read more

Graphing Toward Standardization
By Brian Bailey - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Graph-based verification has become the hot topic of the day. It commanded a lot of attention at the recent DVCon, promises to fix many of the problems plaguing functional verification, can provide an automated way to perform system-level verification, enables portability of tests between simulation, emulation and prototyping, reduces the wastage created by constrained random test pattern gener... » read more

How To Improve Debug Productivity
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

In the realm of SoC verification world, it often takes a very short amount of time to write the testbench and the code, and the rest of the time — up to 90% — is spent debugging. After all, verification is essentially finding the bugs in a design. Debugging essentially has evolved over the years on the same path and complexity curve as design. Now debugging needs to evolve to keep pace, ... » read more

Efficiency Metrics Get Fuzzy
By Ed Sperling - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Not too long ago chipmakers used to measure transistors per hour and software developers would measure lines of code written per day or per week. Those metrics have fallen by the wayside—and chipmakers are still lamenting that loss. The problem is that nothing has come along to replace the old metrics, and complexity has left many chipmakers scratching their heads about how to build effici... » read more

Extending UVM To Analog
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 2

As SoC complexity has grown, so too has the need to model the analog/mixed-signal content in a similar way as the digital content to make simulation easier. One way to do this is within the context of the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM). In fact, this can and is being done today with UVM as it stands, according to a number of industry sources. However, there is also growing interest... » read more

Does Formal Have You Covered?
By Brian Bailey - 24 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 1

In part one of this roundtable, the panelists talked about the recent changes that have brought formal to the forefront of verification and discussed the challenges that the UVM have brought to formal. In this segment we start exploring those difficulties in more detail and the progress made with integrated coverage. Participating in the panel were Pete Hardee, director of product management fo... » read more

Executive Insight: Charlie Cheng
By Brian Bailey - 23 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Charlie Cheng, CEO of Kilopass Technologies, to talk about his role in transforming the company. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: Can you talk about your existing product and its evolution? Cheng: The founders discovered a new type of [Non Volatile (NVM), One Time Programmable (OTP)] memory and protected it with a number of patents.... » read more

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