Innovation In Distributed Functional Safety

By Imagination Technologies - 04 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

Innovations in hardware functional safety will be available in future safety-critical products from Imagination. These patent-pending techniques are for processing cores which require Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL)-B levels of protection while incurring the smallest possible area, power and performance costs. This paper outlines new Distributed Safety Mechanisms (DSMs) for CPU and ... » read more

Requirements and Best Practices for Trustworthy Automotive Semiconductors

By Synopsys - 31 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

The complexity of electronic systems supporting Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Highly Automated Driving (HAD), and in-vehicle infotainment is growing exponentially. This, together with the move from multiple domain-specific Electronic Control Units (ECUs) to a zonal architecture will require high-performance computing. Furthermore, new use cases for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) i... » read more

Optimizing Interconnect Topologies For Automotive ADAS Applications

By Ashley Stevens - 25 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

Designing automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) applications can be incredibly complex. State-of-the-art ADAS and autonomous driving systems use ‘sensor fusion’ to combine inputs from multiple sources, typically cameras and optionally radar and lidar units to go beyond passive and active safety to automate driving. Vision processing systems combine specialized AI accelerators... » read more

Real-Time Safety Monitoring for Predictive and Prescriptive Maintenance in Advanced Automotive Electronics

By proteanTecs - 09 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

Software Defined, Electric, and Autonomous vehicles are driving new roadmaps for advanced electronics. Centralized architectures have introduced cutting-edge ECUs and SOCs. Coupled with stringent standardization, automotive manufacturers and OEMs are tasked with achieving functional safety in an ever-developing landscape. Maintaining safety standards without compromising performance and cos... » read more

Holistic Verification and Validation of Automotive IP for Functional Safety SoCs

By Synopsys - 03 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

Automotive functional safety systems have strict requirements to help avoid damages to life and property in case of a failure. As technology becomes more complex, there are increasing safety-related risks from systematic failures and random hardware failures that must be considered during product development. Standards like ISO 26262 provide guidance to mitigate such safety-related risks, by de... » read more

The Uncertainty Of Certifying AI For Automotive

By Ann Mutschler - 06 Jun, 2024 - Comments: 1

Nearly every new vehicle sold uses AI to make some decisions, but so far there is no consistency in what is being developed, where it is being used, and whether it is compatible with other vehicles on the road. This fragmentation is partially due to the fact that AI is still a nascent technology, and cars and trucks sold today may be significantly different than those that will be sold sever... » read more

Advancing Automotive Functional Safety Through Analog & Mixed-Signal Fault Simulation

By Siemens EDA - 09 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

The automotive industry is undergoing a major transformation, driven by the rise of electric vehicles, ADAS, connected cars, and autonomous vehicles. Due to the safety-critical nature of automotive applications, the reliability and tolerance to faults in semiconductor designs becomes paramount. This white paper delves into the role of analog fault simulation in the context of automotive functio... » read more

Framework For Early Anomaly Detection In AMS Components Of Automotive SoCs

By Technical Paper Link - 30 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Enhancing Functional Safety in Automotive AMS Circuits through Unsupervised Machine Learning” was published by researchers at University of Texas at Dallas, Intel Corporation, NXP Semiconductors, and Texas Instruments. Abstract: "Given the widespread use of safety-critical applications in the automotive field, it is crucial to ensure the Functional Safety (FuSa) ... » read more

Verification In Crisis

By Ashish Darbari - 25 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

Why is it still so hard to ensure good quality sign-off happens without leaving behind bugs in silicon? The answer, according to my colleagues at DVCon, is highly nuanced. The industry has been improving overall, as has the complexity of designs. For ASICs, 74% of the designs surveyed in the recent Wilson Research Group/Siemens EDA report have one or more processor cores, 52% have two or mor... » read more

Interoperability And Automation Yield A Scalable And Efficient Safety Workflow

By Ann Keffer - 07 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Ann Keffer, Arun Gogineni, and James Kim Cars deploying ADAS and AV features rely on complex digital and analog systems to perform critical real-time applications. The large number of faults that need to be tested in these modern automotive designs make performing safety verification using a single technology impractical. Yet, developing an optimized safety methodology with specific f... » read more

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