Low-Latency Interconnect for Close-Coupled On-Chip Communication With Error Correction Code Protection (ETH Zurich)


A new technical paper titled "relOBI: A Reliable Low-latency Interconnect for Tightly-Coupled On-chip Communication" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Excerpt "On-chip communication is a critical element of modern systems-on-chip (SoCs), allowing processor cores to interact with memory and peripherals. Interconnects require special care in radiation-heavy environments, as any soft... » read more

Radiation Tolerance Is Not Just For Rocket Scientists


As technology scales, soft errors from particle radiation are becoming increasingly concerning for in-field reliability. These radiation effects are called Single Event Upsets (SEU) and the frequency of the failures due to SEUs is known as the Soft Error Rate (SER). Soft errors are failures due to external sources. By contrast, hard errors refer to actual process manufacturing defects or electr... » read more

Dangerous Electricity


Electricity to the modern age is as indispensible as air, but too much can be a bad thing for automotive and aerospace applications—especially when it is in the form of electrostatic discharge (ESD). As chips advance to 28nm, 20nm and 16nm, the design window for electrostatic discharge is shrinking for a number of reasons, explained Norman Chang is vice president and senior product strategis... » read more