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The challenges of automotive functional safety verification

Engineers developing an SoC for the automotive market have to show that it doesn’t have functional safety issues - even if the SoC enters an unexpected state. Here's how to tackle the safety verification task.

Guides

  • Parasitic extraction

    EDA - Techniques

    Parasitic extraction reveals the impact of implementation on the theoretical performance of IC designs.

  • Monolithic 3DIC for SoC

    EDA - Technologies

    Monolithic 3DIC integration may provide a viable alternative to conventional 2D scaling for SoCs if manufacturing problems can be overcome.

  • Lint

    EDA - Technologies

    A static-analysis tool that checks for errors in HDL code, lint is becoming an increasingly important addition to simulation for RTL and SoC signoff.

Expert Insights

The inside track on emulation growth

Jean-Marie Brunet is Senior Director of Marketing for the Emulation Division at Mentor Graphics.

Analysts say there is a $1B market on the horizon. We talk with Mentor's Jean-Marie Brunet about where such a number could come from.

Phil Brumby

How to analyze embedded GUI performance effectively

Users now demand a smooth GUI experience. Making sure they get one requires harvesting and understanding key metrics.

Mike Thompson

A vision of autonomous driving

Enabling autonomous driving will demand embedded processors that can process multiple HD video streams and analyse them using convolutional neural networks.

EDA

  1. Chips on a wafer
    Article Addressing the verification challenges of complex SoCs

    Three senior verification specialists talk about how they are navigating the challenge of verifying multibillion-transistor SoCs with limited compute resource, increasing coverage demands and shrinking timescales.

  2. Article Challenges of tool, process and design collaboration at advanced nodes
  3. Expert Insight The emulator thrives as verification models mushroom

PCB

  1. David Wiens is Business Development Manager for the System Design Division at Mentor Graphics.
    Expert Insight Where tools end and best practices begin

    Learn how you can benchmark your design practices against the most successful players in the PCB market – and why you should.

  2. Article PCB tool innovation from the middle out
  3. Article Simulation predicts performance of automotive Ethernet

IP

  1. Hezi Saar is a staff product marketing manager at Synopsys responsible for its DesignWare MIPI controller and PHY IP product line.
    Expert Insight I3C specification updates I2C for sensor subsystems

    A look at the ways in which the I2C serial interface specification is being updated to form I3C, and its use in sensor subsystems

  2. Article Implementing USB Type-C
  3. Article Understanding the USB 3.1 protocol

Embedded

  1. Mike Borza, Synopsys
    Expert Insight Laying the foundations of a more secure IoT

    The challenges of creating a more secure IoT, and the role that hardware roots of trust can play in doing so.

  2. Article Bit width tweaks point way to practical deep learning
  3. Expert Insight Still using Moore’s Law to beat up on the automotive industry?

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