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 accelerator ecosystem that provides AI designers with an environment to jumpstart their projects. … [Read more...]

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 production version, able to handle all of the functions and configurations that it might be faced … [Read more...]

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 chips for object identification are fascinating. But “simple” smart sensor systems, like passenger … [Read more...]

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 accommodate multiple sensor types, a traditional CMOS IC flow must be extended to include MEMS and photonics … [Read more...]

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 grow. Extremely-high pin-count devices, such as ECUs, APUs, CPUs, GPUs, MCUs, and FPGAs, have changed the … [Read more...]

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 robust technology that has evolved over decades to keep up with advancements in throughput and speed … [Read more...]

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, Symphony Mixed-Signal Platform, Solido Variation Designer, and Solido Characterization … [Read more...]

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 proportion of the modern-day automotive electronics are there to support new advanced driver-assistance … [Read more...]

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 path to highest QofR (performance, area and power) for both FPGA and ASIC. Catapult’s ecosystem is … [Read more...]

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 carries baggage from previous standards such as OVM, VMM, eRM, AVM, and more. This paper describes … [Read more...]