Using Virtual Prototypes To Address The Growing Software Complexity In Automotive


The software content is growing steadily across multiple applications and the automotive market is no exception to this. In fact the amount of electronics and software in cars is transforming the way we perceive the value of a car. With this steady increase in software also comes the need to handle the amount and the complexity of all these different software stacks. And unlike other applicatio... » read more

Vista Virtual Prototyping


Vista Virtual Prototyping provides an early, abstract functional model of the hardware to software engineers even before the hardware design is implemented in RTL. It can run software on embedded processor models at speeds par with board support packages, providing sufficiently fast simulation models for OS and application software validation. The Vista Virtual Prototyping solution has two dist... » read more

Deployment of OASIS In The Semiconductor Industry


The OASIS working group was first initiated in 2001, published the new format in March 2004, which was ratified as an official SEMI standard in September 2005. A follow-on initiative expanded the new standard to cover the needs of the mask manufacturing equipment sector with a derived standard called OASIS.MASK (P44) that was released in November 2005 and updated in May 2008. While there are ma... » read more

Physical-Aware RTL Restructuring For SoC Cost Reduction


In modern SoC design, RTL hierarchy has to be manipulated throughout the entire design flow in order to accommodate different objectives at different stages of the design process. This becomes particularly true as more and more building blocks of the SoC are reused from previous designs. These requirements are driven by the need to: Adapt the RTL design hierarchy to create homogeneous subs... » read more

Five Key Challenges In Designing With High-Speed Analog IP


There’s good reason why analog IC design is often considered to be more of an art than a science. Compared to their digital counterparts, analog components are much more sensitive to noise, distortion, and other errors. This white paper is filled with tips on meeting these challenges and speeding up your design cycle. To download this paper, click here. » read more

Improving Embedded Systems Reliability With A Process Model-Based RTOS


The introduction of Nucleus Process Model to the Nucleus Real Time Operating System (RTOS) maintains the key characteristics of an RTOS and adds many of the benefits of a large scale OS, such as dynamic task, library loading and unloading, memory access protection, and operational privilege control. This paper discusses the various dimensions of operating under the process model, including its ... » read more

Design Guidelines For Embedded Real Time Face Detection Application


This paper presents steps for real-time deployment of face detection application on a programmable vector processor. The steps taken are general purpose in the sense that they can be used to implement similar computer vision algorithms on any mobile device. To download this white paper, click here. » read more

Using Formal Verification Across A Spectrum Of Design Applications


Chip designers worldwide have told us that Jasper is fundamentally different in how we approach their technical and business problems by delivering a high ROI (return on investment) through the application of advanced formal verification techniques. Our tools address a spectrum of key verification challenges - from getting the architecture unambiguously right, to putting more power in the hands... » read more

USB 3.1: Evolution And Revolution


USB-IF Worldwide Developers Days introduced developers to the new USB 3.1 specification. On the surface, USB 3.1 seems like it could be only an update to 10G speeds, but this white paper will dig deeper into 10G USB 3.1 to clarify the evolutionary and revolutionary changes in the USB 3.1 specification. USB 3.1 introduces a new 10 Gbps signaling rate in addition to the 5 Gbps signaling rate defi... » read more

Virtual Prototypes For Early Software Development


In previous white papers, we've looked at the demands of the rapidly changing market and how the use of virtual prototypes has evolved to help meet them. In this white paper, we look specifically at the challenges of developing some of the hardware-dependent software layers - namely boot ROM code, OS bring-up, driver development - used in fast-evolving mobile devices and how to use virtual prot... » read more

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