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Radar For Automotive: How Far Can A Radar See?
By Marta Martinez Vazquez - 25 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 1

In the previous entries of this blog dedicated to automotive radar, the reason for using radar and the principle of operation of the frequency modulated continuous wave radar were presented. Now, we will focus on the performance of the system, starting with its maximum detection range: how far can we detect an obstacle ahead? We need to have as much foresight as possible, to be able to detect a... » read more

Processor Design Automation To Drive Innovation And Foster Differentiation
By Lauranne Choquin - 25 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 0

With semiconductor scaling no longer being an option in most situations, optimization means customizing the processor for your specific application. With the right approach and right tools, processor design automation can enable innovation and differentiation. One way of achieving this is to create an application-specific processor by owning the design. To do this efficiently, manual efforts sh... » read more

Plasma Dicing 101: The Basics
By Richard Barnett - 15 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 0

Taking place at the end of the semiconductor process flow, dicing is the process where the silicon wafer is finally turned into individual chips, or die, traditionally by means of a saw or laser. A saw blade, or laser, is used to cut the wafer along the areas between the chips called dicing lanes. This step separates the chips from the wafer making them ready to be packaged and fitted to whiche... » read more

Hertzbleed: Prime Time For Power Side Channel Countermeasures Or Novelty Attack?
By Jasper van Woudenberg - 04 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 0

Hertzbleed is a new side-channel attack that turns a power side channel into a timing side channel. That timing side channel may be exploitable even if the algorithm runs in a constant number of clock cycles. The novel observation is that the duration of a clock cycle can vary depending on the data processed on a CPU that uses dynamic frequency scaling. This allows a remote attacker to extract... » read more

Speech Applications Will Enable A New Category Of Edge AI Chips
By Anand Joshi - 04 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 0

Speech recognition has become an increasingly important feature in a wide range of devices. Wakewords such as Alexa or OK Google or Siri have now become a standard feature of wearables, smart-speakers, mobile phones, and even laptops. These devices have already shipped in millions of units and consumers are getting better at utilizing this feature. The wakeword recognition feature is slowly evo... » read more

DAC 2022: Is It Too Risky Not To Adopt RISC-V?
By Brett Cline - 28 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

I was fortunate enough to attend the 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco. Aside from the Covid closure in 2020 I’ve been going to DAC since 1995. Many people, including me, arrived to San Francisco with a bit of trepidation. After all, 58th DAC had low attendance and it was only about 7 months ago. What was the DAC 2022 conference going to be like? How would Covid affec... » read more

Radar For Automotive: Basics Of FMCW Radar
By Marta Martinez Vazquez - 28 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

Radar (acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging) uses radio waves to detect objects in the environment. It allows determining the distance (known as range), angular position (bearing), and velocity. Radar technology was developed for military use during World War II, but has now many civil applications, including air or marine traffic control, astronomy, ocean and meteorological monitoring, alti... » read more

Radio Frequency Filters For 5G: What They Are And Why They’re Worth The Trouble
By David Haynes - 21 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

By David Haynes, Daniel Shin, and Lidia Vereen­ In the recent blog article "Our wireless world – how Wi-Fi 6 will seamlessly integrate with 5G to keep us connected," David Haynes from our Customer Support Business Group (CSBG) explained how this new generation of wireless technologies will improve our connectivity by using higher frequencies and greater bandwidth than current 4G and Wi-F... » read more

Chip Data Joins The Party
By Richard Oxland - 12 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

Perhaps you’ve heard of silicon lifecycle management (product lifecycle management for your semiconductor) but considered it a “far-future” practice that you can safely ignore for now. While many pieces of a complete silicon lifecycle solutions (SLS) are not yet in place, the components are coming together every day. Today, in fact, Siemens’ Tessent offers a new suite of software ser... » read more

Security Highlight: Evil Never Sleeps
By Marc Witteman - 07 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

Recently, Apple introduced a useful but potentially dangerous feature to its iPhones. Most of us would assume that a phone becomes inactive when switched off by the user or due to low power. Surprisingly, newer phones continue limited functionality for several hours in low power mode or even if it is off. This includes cards in your Wallet and the Find My service. This feature caught the attent... » read more

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