tag: software

RISC-V Challenges And Opportunities
By Ed Sperling - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss open instruction set hardware and the future of RISC-V with Ben Levine, senior director of product management in Rambus' Security Division; Jerry Ardizzone, vice president of worldwide sales at Codasip; Megan Wachs, vice president of engineering at SiFive; and Rishiyur Nikhil, CTO of Bluespec. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. (L-... » read more

Solving The Memory Bottleneck
By Brian Bailey - 04 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 4

Chipmakers are scrambling to solve the bottleneck between processor and memory, and they are turning out new designs based on different architectures at a rate no one would have anticipated even several months ago. At issue is how to boost performance in systems, particularly those at the edge, where huge amounts of data need to be processed locally or regionally. The traditional approach ha... » read more

Coordinating Automotive Embedded Software Development Requires A Unified Approach
By Piyush Karkare - 03 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

The rising intelligence and connectivity of vehicles are making the interactions between software and physical systems more complex, exposing the deficiencies of current processes, tools and methods. To compete in the technological race for the future of mobility, companies must evolve their software development processes today. A common digital thread connecting software and physical systems t... » read more

Reducing Software Power
By Brian Bailey - 12 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

With the slowdown of Moore's Law, every decision made in the past must be re-examined to get more performance or lower power for a given function. So far, software has remained relatively unaffected, but it could be an untapped area for optimization and enable significant power reduction. The general consensus is that new applications such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, whe... » read more

Creating A Unified Platform For Automotive Embedded Application Development
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 04 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

Automotive embedded software complexity is ballooning as software applications play a critical role in delivering the features and functionality demanded in modern vehicles. Current software development methodologies are incapable of managing the numerous and intricate cyber-physical interfaces in the cars of today. To compete, companies must evolve their software development processes to estab... » read more

Siemens-Mentor Deal Retrospective
By Ed Sperling - 21 Aug, 2019 - Comments: 1

Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software and CEO of Mentor, a Siemens Business, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about the acquisition of Mentor Graphics, the shift toward more customized design, and where AI fits into the design picture. SE: How does a company like Siemens see the EDA industry evolving? Hemmelgarn: Part of the reason we bought Mentor Grap... » read more

Smart NiCs
By Ed Sperling - 05 Aug, 2019 - Comments: 1

Manish Sinha, strategic planning for marketing and business at Achronix, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about what’s changing in networking interface cards, how to get more performance out of these devices, and how much needs to be in hardware versus software. » read more

Who’s In Your Wallet?
By Ed Sperling - 01 Aug, 2019 - Comments: 0

Hacking a financial institution is a very big deal. Banks and credit card companies take their security very seriously because they literally have money to lose if something goes awry. What becomes clear, though, in reading the criminal complaint involving the Capital One hack, is that the weakest link isn't always the hardware or the software. It's the geeks who want to show off, or ... » read more

Hardware-Software Co-Design Reappears
By Brian Bailey - 25 Jul, 2019 - Comments: 1

The core concepts in hardware-software co-design are getting another look, nearly two decades after this approach was first introduced and failed to catch on. What's different this time around is the growing complexity and an emphasis on architectural improvements, as well as device scaling, particularly for AI/ML applications. Software is a critical component, and the more tightly integrate... » read more

HW/SW Design At The Intelligent Edge
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Jul, 2019 - Comments: 0

Adding intelligence to the edge is a lot more difficult than it might first appear, because it requires an understanding of what gets processed where based on assumptions about what the edge actually will look like over time. What exactly falls under the heading of Intelligent Edge varies from one person to the next, but all agree it goes well beyond yesterday’s simple sensor-based IoT dev... » read more

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