tag: Siemens EDA

SoC Power Grid Challenges
By Brian Bailey - 14 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 7

The consumption of power and dissipation of heat within large SoCs has received a lot of attention recently, but that is only part of the issue. Power also has to be reliably delivered onto and around the system. This is becoming increasingly difficult, and new nodes are adding to the list of challenges. "If we were building chips where there was only a single Vdd and Vss then it is not that... » read more

Implementation Limits Power Optimization
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 3

Implementation is still the step that makes or breaks power budgets in chip design, despite improvements in power estimation, power simulations, and an increase in the number of power-related architectural decisions. The reason: All of those decisions must be carried throughout the design flow. “If implementation decides to give up, then it doesn't really matter at the end of the day,” s... » read more

Addressing The Challenges Of Automotive Motor Control
By Ahmed Eisawy - 14 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

By Andrew Talan and Ahmed Eisawy As you leave work today and enter the parking lot, you hit the unlock button on your car remote. Using the power lift to open the hatch back, you put your laptop bag in the back of the car. While seated in the car, you adjust your seat position and bump your driver-side mirror into a new position and then head for home. You probably don’t think much about y... » read more

Mixed-Signal/Low-Power Design
By Jeff Dorsch - 14 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss mixed-signal/low-power IC design with Phil Matthews, director of engineering at Silicon Labs; Yanning Lu, director of analog IC design at Ambiq Micro; Krishna Balachandran, director of low power solutions marketing at [getentity id="22032" comment="Cadence"]; Geoffrey Ying, director of product marketing, AMS Group, [getentity id="22035" e_name="Syno... » read more

Testbench Acceleration Performance Demystified
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 13 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Part 2 in a series of papers that demystify the performance of SystemVerilog and UVM testbenches when using an emulator for the purpose of hardware-assisted testbench acceleration. In these three papers, architectural and modeling requirements are described, followed by a recommended systematic approach for maximizing overall testbench acceleration speed-up and achieving your ultimate performan... » read more

Blog Review: July 13
By Jesse Allen - 13 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Mansi Chadha looks back at the history of storage and the evolution of SCSI. Cadence's Paul McLellan highlights some of the latest news from the world of neural networks. Mentor's Darrell Teegarden digs into the challenges of modeling fuel cells and walks through how to build one. Ansys' Justin Nescott features a giant, three-instrument music box in his picks for the week's t... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 08 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Tools Synopsys unveiled a new HAPS adaptor that enables a HAPS FPGA-based Prototyping System to easily connect to a Juno ARM Development Platform. The software development platform includes the Juno Versatile Express board with ARM Cortex-A72, or Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 MPCore, Mali-T624 and reference software through Linaro Linux. Numbers Imagination released financial results for t... » read more

Safety, Security In Autonomous Vehicles
By Ann Mutschler - 07 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

As the buzz, excitement, anticipation and development around autonomous vehicles continues, so do the lessons. Last week, Tesla reported that the NHTSA was opening a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a recent fatal crash that occurred in a Tesla Model S — the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Tesla’s Autopilot was activated. The crash... » read more

Automotive Digitalization And The Customer Relationship
By Andrew Macleod - 07 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

A current big idea that’s kicking around, one that motivates much of what we’re trying to do with Mentor Automotive tools and services, is that digitalization represents the third relatively recent disruption of the auto industry. Yes, the effects of the first two, the opening of China and the electrification of the powertrain, are still being felt. But the effects of the third will almost... » read more

Rethinking The Sensor
By Ed Sperling - 07 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

Sensor technology is beginning to change on a fundamental level as companies begin looking beyond a human’s five senses, on which early sensors were modeled, to what can be done with those sensors for specific applications. In some cases, [getkc id="187" kc_name="sensors"] don’t have to be as accurate as the sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing of a person. In others, they can be a... » read more

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