Smarter Cars, Higher Stakes


Artificial intelligence is turbocharging automotive innovation, but it's also unleashing a tangle of high stakes risks that engineers and security experts are scrambling to contain. The push to embed AI deep into today’s vehicles is changing how cars are built, how they handle the road, and how they keep passengers safe. But as onboard intelligence expands, so do the risks. AI systems that... » read more

A Survey Of Digital Twins and Other Prototyping Technologies for Vehicles


A new technical paper titled "Digital Twin Technologies for Vehicular Prototyping: A Survey" was published by researchers at Central Michigan University and University of Florida. Abstract "Digital Twin (DT) technology is widely regarded as one of the most promising tools for industry development, demonstrating substantial application across numerous cyber-physical systems. Gradually, this ... » read more

Top-Down Vs. Bottom-Up Chiplet Design


Chiplets are gaining widespread attention across the semiconductor industry, but for this approach to really take off commercially it will require more standards, better modeling technologies and methodologies, and a hefty amount of investment and experimentation. The case for chiplets is well understood. They can speed up time to market with consistent results, at whatever process node work... » read more

AI/ML’s Role In Design And Test Expands


The role of AI and ML in test keeps growing, providing significant time and money savings that often exceed initial expectations. But it doesn't work in all cases, sometimes even disrupting well-tested process flows with questionable return on investment. One of the big attractions of AI is its ability to apply analytics to large data sets that are otherwise limited by human capabilities. In... » read more

Five Digital Threads Unify And Simplify Electronic Systems Design And Manufacturing


By Matthew Walsh and Matt Bromley Digital transformation involves the integration of digital technologies and the reimagining of business processes to enhance operations, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation. Digital threads are a key component of this transformation, as they enable the seamless flow of data and information across various stages of a process, system, or organiz... » read more

Extending DTCO For Today’s Competitive IC Landscape


As semiconductor components continue to shrink, the challenges associated with design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) increase. The complexity of the IC design and manufacturing process demands an extension of traditional DFM and DTCO techniques to overcome the systematic failures tied to complex design-process interactions. Designers need to accelerate d... » read more

Flexible Hybrid Electronics: Future Standards For Next-Gen 5G/mmWave Wearable and Conformal Applications


A technical paper titled “Additively manufactured flexible on-package phased array antennas for 5G/mmWave wearable and conformal digital twin and massive MIMO applications” was published by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology. Abstract: "This paper thoroughly investigates material characterization, reliability evaluation, fabrication, and assembly processes of additively manufa... » read more

Automotive MCUs: Digital Twin of the LBIST Functionality


A new technical paper titled "A Novel LBIST Signature Computation Method for Automotive Microcontrollers using a Digital Twin" was written by researchers at Infineon Technologies, University of Bremen, and DFKI GmbH. Abstract "LBIST has been proven to be an effective measure for reaching functional safety goals for automotive microcontrollers. Due to a large variety of recent innovative fea... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power


Tools and IP Renesas introduced a new microprocessor that enables artificial intelligence to process image data from multiple cameras. "One of the challenges for embedded systems developers who want to implement machine learning is to keep up with the latest AI models that are constantly evolving,” said Shigeki Kato, Vice President of Renesas' Enterprise Infrastructure Business Division. �... » read more

Digital Twin for Secure Semiconductor Lifecycle Management: Prospects and Applications


Abstract:  "The expansive globalization of the semiconductor supply chain has introduced numerous untrusted entities into different stages of a device’s lifecycle, enabling them to compromise its security. To make matters worse, the increasing complexity in the design as well as aggressive time-to-market requirements of the newer generation of integrated circuits can lead either designers t... » read more

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