New Architectural Issues Facing Auto Ecosystem

By Ann Mutschler - 05 Mar, 2020 - Comments: 0

As chips bound for the automotive world move to small process nodes, including 5nm and below, the automotive ecosystem is wrestling with both scaling issues and challenges related to architecting safety-critical systems using fewer chips. This may sound counterintuitive, because one of the main reasons automotive chip providers are moving to smaller nodes is to reduce the number of chips in ... » read more

The Future Of Embedded Monitoring, Part 1

By Stephen Crosher - 13 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

Shall I compare thee to a…Rolls Royce jet engine? ‘There is a new era dawning whereby deeply embedded sensing within all technology will bring about great benefit for the reliability and performance of semiconductor-based products.’ These were my words during a presentation to an industry audience in China back in September 2015. During that same presentation, somewhat to the consterna... » read more

AI: A Perfect Solution But At What Cost?

By Chris Bergey - 13 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a great enabler for the Internet of things (IoT). Given the ability to think for itself, it’s shrugged off its original definition as a network of tiny sensors and grown to incorporate a host of more intelligent AIoT (AI+IoT) devices, from smartphones all the way up to autonomous vehicles. AI has also paved the way for new IoT device... » read more

More Data, More Problems In Automotive

By Anne Meixner - 11 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

The race toward increasing levels of autonomy is being hampered by competitive concerns over sharing data across the automotive supply chain. Pushing past the initial ADAS levels into full autonomy is expected to take more than a decade, but the infrastructure for those systems, and making sure all assisted and autonomous vehicles work with other vehicles, is under development today. Still, ... » read more

Things That Go Bump In The Daytime

By Ed Sperling - 14 Jan, 2020 - Comments: 0

There is no argument that autonomous technology is better at certain things than systems controlled by people. A computer-guided system has only one mission — to stay on the road, avoid object, and reach the end destination. It doesn't get tired, text, or look out the window. And it can park within a millimeter of a wall or another vehicle without hitting it, and do that every time — as lon... » read more

Scaling, Packaging, And Partitioning

By Ed Sperling - 17 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 0

Prior to the finFET era, most chipmakers either focused on shrinking or packaging, but they rarely did both. Going forward, the two will be inseparable, and that will lead to big challenges with partitioning of data and processing. The key driver here, of course, is that device scaling no longer provides appreciable benefits in power, performance and cost. Nevertheless, scaling does provide ... » read more

Verification In The Era Of Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

The last couple of weeks have been busy with me participating on three panels that dealt with AI and machine learning in the contexts of automotive and aero/defense, in San Jose, Berlin and Detroit. The common theme? Data is indeed the new oil, and it messes with traditional value creation in electronics. Also, requirements for system design and verification are changing and there are completel... » read more

Compressing Datasets Created During Silicon Design

By Cadence - 23 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Authors: Guru Rao, Distinguished Engineer; Shakir Abbas, Software Engineering Group Director; Mohammad Mirfendereski, Configuration Management Architect; Cadence. Harsh Sharangpani, CEO and CTO; Rajesh Patil, VP-Business Development; Ascava. During the design cycle for modern semiconductor components, a very large amount of data is generated and stored, often accumulating to hundreds of tera... » read more

Less Food, More Thought

By Ed Sperling - 10 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

A trillion "things" are expected to be connected to the Internet sometime in the next decade. No matter how power-efficient these things are, they probably will require enough coin-sized lithium batteries to drain the world's supply of element No. 3 on the Periodic Table. They also will increase the demand for power everywhere, and that's even before tacking on electric vehicles, the edge, robo... » read more

The Great Data Flood Ahead

By Ed Sperling - 26 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 1

The number of devices connected to the Internet is expected to exceed 1 trillion devices over the next decade or so. The timeline is a bit fuzzy, in part because no one is actually counting all of these devices, but the implications are pretty clear. A data deluge of biblical proportions is headed our way, and so far no one has any idea of what to do with all of it. From a system-level s... » read more

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