A new breed of designers are creating IoT edge devices that span across analog, digital, RF, and MEMS domains. They are tackling a challenge that once seemed impossible: combining the electronics of the device using the traditional CMOS IC flow with the MEMS sensor on the same silicon die. This … [Read more...]

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has a market forecast approaching over one hundred billion, so it has everyone’s attention right now, except, it seems, Silicon Valley. Turning volumes of factory data into actionable information from the supply chain, to the floor, to operations, and up to … [Read more...]

For IC design and verification teams, employing a data management tool is important for successful projects. Often, specific blocks are assigned to team members based on analog, digital, MEMS, RF expertise, across multiple geographies. Unstructured design files with multiple copies and versions, … [Read more...]

As teams create custom machine learning acceleration blocks in C++, they often employ a High-Level Synthesis flow to quickly find power and performance solutions. But tools alone cannot jumpstart these projects. What they need is an ecosystem that provides support, ideas, and direction for their … [Read more...]

Moving machine learning to the edge has critical requirements on power and performance. Using off-the-shelf solutions is not practical. CPUs are too slow, GPUs/TPUs are expensive and consume too much power, and even generic machine learning accelerators can be overbuilt and are not optimal for … [Read more...]

Although RTL has traditionally been the starting point for digital design, it is becoming too expensive and time consuming. Algorithmic intensive hardware for AI in autonomous vehicles requires a new flow. Companies like BOSCH Visiontec, STMicroelectronics and Chips&Media have turned to a high-level … [Read more...]

Many layout-dependent and operational environment variation effects that reduce reliability are subtle and hard to predict. Analog designers use layout best practices to mitigate variation impact, but verification can be difficult, time-consuming, and prone to error. Automated layout checks can … [Read more...]

Using a packaged checks flow lets designers quickly select, configure and run custom reliability checks and check combinations to help design companies achieve today’s demanding time-to-market schedules while ensuring product reliability. Download this white paper... … [Read more...]

Application of the digital functional twin can dramatically compress development timescales, support compliance mandates, and foster engineering innovation. This keynote presentation explores the ideas behind the digital functional twin, and how modern design automation tools turn these ideas into … [Read more...]

Wiring harness manufacturing is a sophisticated and challenging business where quality, accuracy, and speed are essential to success. Large production volumes magnify the cost incurred by mistakes in even the smallest assemblies, while even small engineering changes can make a big difference in the … [Read more...]