Verifying Safety-Critical FPGA Designs With Fault Simulation


Supporting safety and assurance in designs, such as the chips used in industrial, aerospace and defense applications, requires more than traditional functional verification. Even if every bug is found and fixed before release, these applications have additional requirements for functional safety. They must be able to handle a variety of faults and induced errors, either by correcting them or by... » read more

Part Average Test (PAT)


With semiconductor manufacturers producing huge amounts of data, it can be hard to guarantee quality and reliability, even with internal tools. Many companies outsource Part Average Testing (PAT) to a bespoke yield management provider. Provided they meet the standards set out by AEC, the tool will be invaluable in guaranteeing quality and reliability for your customers. Click here to con... » read more

Photonic Integration Based On A Ferroelectric Thin-Film Platform


Photonic-integrated circuits (PICs) using ferroelectric materials are expected to be used in many applications because of its unique optical properties such as large electrooptic coefficients. In this study, a novel PIC based on a ferroelectric thin-film platform was designed and fabricated, where high-speed optical modulator, spot-size converters (SSCs), and a variable optical attenuator (VOA)... » read more

Multi-Layer Deep Data Performance Monitoring And Optimization


Combining functional and parametric monitoring of the real-world behavior of complex SoCs provides a powerful new approach that facilitates performance optimization during development and in the field, improves security and safety, and enables predictive maintenance to prevent field failures. proteanTecs’ Universal Chip Telemetry (UCT) and Siemens’ Tessent Embedded Analytics are complementa... » read more

Full Metrology Solutions For Advanced RF With Picosecond Ultrasonic Metrology


Picosecond Ultrasonics (PULSE Technology) has been widely used in thin metal film metrology because of its unique advantages, such as being a rapid, non-contact, non-destructive technology and its capabilities for simultaneous multiple layer measurement. Measuring velocity and thickness simultaneously for transparent and semi-transparent films offers a lot of potential for not only monitoring ... » read more

Generative Design For EV Electrical Systems


Electric vehicles (EVs) are popularly held as the future of personal mobility and transportation. New electric car manufacturers are flooding the market while established OEMs divert more investment to electric vehicle programs in an attempt to stay ahead. Automotive electrical and electronic systems are becoming more complex, and the complexity is beginning to strain conventional design method... » read more

Synthetic Aperture And Plane Wave Ultrasound Imaging With Versal ACAP


Medical ultrasound is the most widely accepted and available form of diagnostic imaging today because of many significant advantages. It uses low-energy acoustic waves, and there are no known harmful side-effects on patients unlike potential ionizing radiation from X-rays or CT scans. Ultrasound can capture dynamic soft issue images, which X-rays cannot. Ultrasound systems are compact and trans... » read more

Security Verification Of Rambus’ CryptoManager Root Of Trust By Tortuga Logic


The confidentiality and integrity of cryptographic key material is critical to maintaining system security. A hardware root of trust, such as the Rambus CryptoManager Root of Trust, is designed to securely generate, store, and employ cryptographic keys. Tortuga Logic has independently verified the policies surrounding access to keys stored within registers in the CryptoManager Root of Trust usi... » read more

Guide To Application Security: What To Look For And Why


Does your organization do software development in-house? If you’d like to learn more about application security but don’t know where to start, this white paper will arm you with development and security fundamentals. Inside you'll find: Key concepts, terminology, and why DevSecOps and cloud development matters The trade-offs of different AppSec tools (e.g., SAST, DAST, IAST) and ... » read more

Evaluate ESD Robustness With Cell-Based P2P/CD Verification


Detecting and verifying an ESD structure can be challenging for designers without specialized ESD experience. The Calibre PERC reliability platform offers cell-based P2P and CD checks that can be used to quickly, accurately, and easily evaluate ESD robustness without the need for advanced ESD expertise. To read more, click here. » read more

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