tag: Mentor

How To Meet Functional Safety Requirements With Built-In-Self-Test
By Lee Harrison - 04 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 1

With the rapid growth in semiconductor content in today’s vehicles, IC designers need to improve their process of meeting functional safety requirements defined by the ISO 26262 standard. The ISO 26262 standard defines the levels of functional safety, known as Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL), and is a mandatory part of an automotive system design process. The ASIL categories range... » read more

Data Strategy Shifting Again In Cars
By Ann Mutschler - 04 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Carmakers are modifying their data processing strategies to include more processing at or near the source of data, reducing the amount of data that needs to be moved around within a vehicle to both improve response time and free up compute resources. These moves are a world away from the initial idea that terabytes of streaming data would be processed in the cloud and sent back to the vehicl... » read more

What Makes A Chip Tamper-Proof?
By Bryon Moyer - 04 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 5

The cyber world is the next major battlefield, and attackers are busily looking for ways to disrupt critical infrastructure. There is widespread proof this is happening. “Twenty-six percent of the U.S. power grid was found to be hosting Trojans," said Haydn Povey, IAR Systems' general manager of embedded security solutions. "In a cyber-warfare situation, that's the first thing that would b... » read more

Rethinking Your Approach To Radiation Mitigation
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 03 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Formal verification and automation provide an effective, high quality, and repeatable process for fault analysis, protection, and verification for FPGA designs used in high radiation environments. This paper describes an automated systematic approach based on formal verification structural and static analysis that identifies design susceptibility to radiation induced faults. To read more, clic... » read more

Blog Review: June 3
By Jesse Allen - 03 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan takes a look at how Ethernet came to dominate wired networking and is now taking on automotive to provide the bandwidth necessary for the increasing number of sensors in modern vehicles. Mentor's Colin Walls notes the difficulty of assessing the quality of software, some key areas to pay attention to when assessing quality or trying to write quality code, and the bottom... » read more

(Artificially) Intelligent Verification
By Brian Bailey - 01 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 1

Functional verification produces a lot of data, , but does that make it suitable for Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML)? Experts weigh in about where and how AI can help and what the industry could do to improve the benefits. "It's not necessarily the quantity," says Harry Foster, chief scientist for verification at Mentor, a Siemens Business. "It's the quality that matter... » read more

What’s So Important About Processor Extensibility?
By Brian Bailey - 28 May, 2020 - Comments: 1

While the ability to extend a processor is nothing new, market dynamics are forcing a growing percentage of the industry to consider it a necessary part of their product innovation. From small IoT functions to massive data centers and artificial intelligence, the need to create an optimized processing platform is often the only way to get more performance or lower power out of the silicon area ... » read more

Lower Resistance Protects Against Failure In IC Design
By Fady Fouad - 28 May, 2020 - Comments: 0

By Fady Fouad, Esraa Swillam, and Jeff Wilson When you’re fighting off a threat, you typically want all the resistance you can muster. In IC design, on the other hand, minimizing resistance is crucial to success in power structure design. As metals get narrower with technology node advances, resistance levels rise, and voltage drop (IR) and electromigration (EM) issues grow, both in number... » read more

Early Detection Of Power/Ground Shorts Speeds Time To Tapeout
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 27 May, 2020 - Comments: 0

Early detection of power/ground shorts lets design teams fix errors during implementation, avoiding time-consuming design data merging and full-chip physical verification. The Calibre platform provides fast, automated power/ground checking using abstract LEF/DEF input, significantly reducing the time and resources needed to ensure these violations are removed prior to tapeout. To read more, ... » read more

The Good And Bad Of Chiplets
By Mark LaPedus - 27 May, 2020 - Comments: 1

The chiplet model continues to gain traction in the market, but there are still some challenges to enable broader support for the technology. AMD, Intel, TSMC, Marvell and a few others have developed or demonstrated devices using chiplets, which is an alternative way to develop an advanced design. Beyond that, however, the adoption of chiplets is limited in the industry due to ecosystem issu... » read more

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