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Companies worldwide trust the Catapult HLS Platform for designing and verifying machine learning accelerators and connecting them to systems. But, Mentor has taken a big step farther and offers an AI … [Read more...] about AI Accelerator Ecosystem: An Overview

Emulation, combined with a rich assortment of virtualized versions of the many protocols that 5G will require, is the only practical way of ensuring that the first round of silicon built will be the … [Read more...] about 5G Verification is Impossible without Emulation

While exotic technology for autonomous drive cars draw wonder all around the world, individual smart sensor systems with “simple” jobs to do are equally important. LiDAR sensors with specialized AI … [Read more...] about Autonomous Drive Requires Smart Sensor Systems

Sensor-based designs, such as IoT systems, combine many design domains implemented on CMOS (Figure 1). These systems can be implemented on multiple dies and could employ multiple packages. To … [Read more...] about Implementing a Multi-Domain System

As the world continues to demand more performance, bandwidth, and capacity from smaller, lighter, and lowerpower products, so the increase in High Density Advance Packaging (HDAP) usage will … [Read more...] about Fabless Challenges of Integrating Complex Silicon into the IC Package, Even the System PCB

PCI Express® (PCIe®) is a dominant technology for hardware applications requiring high-speed connectivity between networking, storage, FPGA, and GPGPU boards to servers and desktop systems. It is a … [Read more...] about PCIe Simulation Speed-Up Using Mentor QVIP with PLDA PCIe Controller for DMA Applications

This brief provides a high level summary of advancements in Mentor’s AMS Verification solutions since we saw you all last year at DAC 2019 in Las Vegas. Products featured: Analog FastSPICE Platform, … [Read more...] about DAC Brief: Showcasing the Latest Innovations in Analog Mixed-Signal Verification

Semiconductor content in today’s vehicles is growing rapidly and we are approaching the point where the value of the electronics is expected to exceed 50% of the total vehicle cost. A growing … [Read more...] about Using Built-In-Self-Test Hardware to Satisfy ISO 26262

Catapult® High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is hot in markets like Deep Learning/AI, Computer Vision, Communication (5G, IoT), and Video, just to name a few. Designing at the C++ or SystemC-level with a fast … [Read more...] about Status Update + Latest Innovations in High-Level Synthesis, Verification & RTL Low-Power

UVM promised a perfect world where a common set of guidelines for testbenches and connected verification IP would make a compatible, simpler world. Just don’t look too closely at the standard. UVM … [Read more...] about UVM – “Stop Hitting Your Brother” – Coding Guidelines