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Rethinking Car Design
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

The automotive industry is undergoing sweeping changes in both technology and business, and functional safety increasingly cuts across both of them. Every safety-critical industry has one or more functional safety standards, whether that is manufacturing, avionics or automotive. In automotive, it's a combination of [gettech id="31076" comment="ISO 26262"] and various ASIL levels, which are a... » read more

Connecting The Car
By Ed Sperling - 22 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

K. Charles Janac, chairman and CEO of ArterisIP, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss changes in automotive and how the connected car will affect chip design and a multitude of other markets. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: What is the biggest change you're seeing in semiconductors? Janac: The really big change is that mobility is flattening out. The mark... » read more

Blog Review: June 14
By Jesse Allen - 14 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

In a video, Cadence's Tom Hackett looks at the evolving von Neumann computer architecture and the development of CCIX driven by recent cloud computing challenges. Mentor's Puneet Sinha notes it's been 17 years since the Toyota Prius went on sale worldwide, and looks ahead to the next 17 years of electric vehicles. Synopsys' Sri Deepti Pisipati gives an overview of the different topologies... » read more

The LiDAR Gold Rush
By Jeff Dorsch - 12 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

Big money is pouring into the LiDAR market, as carmakers gear up for autonomous and assisted driving. LiDAR, along with advanced computer vision and radar sensors, is an essential component for vehicles to maneuver without hitting obstacles or other cars. LiDAR is an acronym for light imaging, detection, and ranging, and until now it has been almost synonymous with next-generation automotive... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 09 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

Analysis Adam Greenfield writes about the privacy and technology issues raised by the Internet of Things in this piece, an adapted extract from his new book, "Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life." “The Internet of Things presents many new possibilities, and it would be foolish to dismiss those possibilities out of hand. But we would also be wise to approach the entire domain wi... » read more

Distributed Intelligence Gets Real
By Brian Fuller - 01 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

I write for a living, which means a lot of typing. But it can also mean a lot of talking, thanks to technology. For six years now, I’ve happily used voice-to-text apps on my smart phone. These cloud-based services have made me immensely more productive, whether it’s dictating an email or a story idea. I once dictated an entire blog post into my phone while I was driving (don’t tell an... » read more

IoT Security Challenges, Opportunities
By Jeff Dorsch - 01 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

The specter of cybersecurity is haunting the Internet of Things—or more specifically, the lack of it. Big companies in information technology and telecommunications have embraced the [getkc id="76" kc_name="IoT"] as a significant business opportunity, and the field is inspiring hundreds of startups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Venture capitalists hungrily eye the IoT, betting on which ... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 19 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Conferences It’s been an action-packed week at Internet of Things World. The show was co-located at the Santa Clara Convention Center with the Connected & Autonomous Vehicles conference. There were lots of deals announced and many products or services debuted at IoT World, which has grown enormously in four years, from 700 attendees at its first event in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2014 to some 14... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: May 16
By Mark LaPedus - 16 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Musical learning chips Imec has demonstrated a neuromorphic chip. The brain-inspired chip, based on OxRAM technology, has the capability of self-learning and has been demonstrated to have the ability to compose music. Imec has combined state-of-the-art hardware and software to design chips that feature these characteristics of a self-learning system. Imec’s goal is to design the process t... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 05 May, 2017 - Comments: 0

Q&A Francine Berman, a computer science professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, talks about ethical issues in the Internet of Things in this interview. She says, “First of all, we’re just at the tip of the iceberg in what is arguably going to be a brave new world. And it’s highly heterogeneous: We’ll be seeing a lot more autonomous systems, we’ll be seeing enhanced humans and ... » read more

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