Experts At The Table: Automotive Electronics

By Ann Mutschler - 02 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler System-Level Design sat down to discuss the opportunities in automotive electronics with Alexandre Palus, principal SoC architect at Altera; Aveek Sarkar, VP of product engineering & support at Apache; Mladen Nizic, engineering director, mixed signal solution at Cadence; and Stephen Pateras, product marketing director, silicon test solutions at Mentor Graphics. W... » read more

System Bits: July 30

By Ann Mutschler - 30 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

Controlling nanomaterials To find out why some sets of flat nanocrystals arrange themselves in an alternating, herringbone style even though it wasn’t the simplest pattern, University of Pennsylvania researchers turned to experts in computer simulation at the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The result of the collaboration gives nanotechnology research... » read more

Garbage Or Treasure?

By Jon McDonald - 27 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald “Garbage in, garbage out” is a very appropriate axiom to keep in mind as you consider what kind of system-level modeling to invest in. Unfortunately this can be complicated by considering another piece of wisdom that often applies as well: “One mans trash is another’s treasure.” What might be an inappropriate abstraction for one type of analysis may be very accepta... » read more

System-Level Security Issues

By Ed Sperling - 26 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

The more things that are put onto a single SoC, the greater the possibility that the entire system can be hacked. Centralization is good from the standpoint of speed, cost and power, but it’s not always good from the standpoint of security. This may sound contrary to the experience of corporate IT departments, but there’s a reason behind this. In the case of data centers, the advent of t... » read more

Measuring Verification Productivity

By Ann Mutschler - 25 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler In this era of mammoth SoCs that require the utmost in verification complexity, it’s not enough to have a methodology. Design and verification teams also need to measure their productivity to constantly stay ahead of the curve. The more sophisticated customers are measuring a lot of things, explained Steve Bailey, marketing director at Mentor Graphics, “and for... » read more

GPUs May Speed UP EDA Algorithms

By Ann Mutschler - 25 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 1

The sequential EDA algorithms of old cannot keep pace with increasing design complexity, which is driving the industry to look at parallelism and other computational architectures such as the graphical processing unit (GPU). A 10X or 20X speedup for gate-level simulations means that a test that runs today in a week will run in less than a day, and a test that runs today in a month will run i... » read more

Experts At The Table: Automotive Electronics

By Ann Mutschler - 25 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

Raising The IP Abstraction Level

By Ed Sperling - 25 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling An increasing reliance on commercial and re-used IP and more emphasis placed on software development is adding even more pressure onto semiconductor design teams to figure out the benefits and limitations of myriad possible choices earlier in the design process. Design teams already are under pressure to meet increasingly tighter market deadlines, and it is stressing every pa... » read more

System Bits: July 23

By Ann Mutschler - 23 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

Bottom-up nanoribbons Concentric hexagons of graphene grown in a furnace at Rice University represent the first time anyone has synthesized graphene nanoribbons on metal from the bottom up — atom by atom. As seen under a microscope, the layers brought onions to mind, according to Rice chemist James Tour, until a colleague suggested flat graphene could never be like an onion. “So I said,... » read more

System Bits: July 9

By Ann Mutschler - 09 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

New quantum computing algorithm Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have proposed a new algorithm for quantum computing that they believe will speed a particular type of problem…but swifter calculations would come at the cost of greater physical resources devoted to precise timekeeping. The algorithm would be used to conduct a task called an unstructured search. The go... » read more

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Experts At The Table: Automotive Electronics

System Bits: July 30

Garbage Or Treasure?

System-Level Security Issues

Measuring Verification Productivity

GPUs May Speed UP EDA Algorithms

Experts At The Table: Automotive Electronics

Raising The IP Abstraction Level

System Bits: July 23

System Bits: July 9