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Automate P2P resistance checking for better, faster ESD protection

ESD has always been a major issue but with increasing densities and growing die sizes it is becoming a higher order concern. Automation and vizualization can help manage the task.

Guides

  • Portable stimulus

    EDA - Standards, Technologies

    Accellera’s Portable Stimulus standard aims to improve verification efficiency and the reuse of test IP across the entire design life cycle.

  • Dynamic power optimization

    EDA - Techniques

    FinFETs present a number of problems with respect to dynamic power consumption. Design techniques are being re-evaluated to deal with the issue.

  • 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.

Expert Insights

Adnan Hamid

Verifying AI engines

Adnan Hamid is co-founder and CEO of Breker Verification Systems, and inventor of its core technology. He has more than 20 years of experience in functional verification automation and is a pioneer in bringing to market the first commercially available solution for Accellera’s Portable Stimulus Standard.

How can we refine our approach functional verification to deal with the increasing number of systems that leverage artificial intelligence.

Colin Walls

Choosing an embedded operating system

You cannot break your operating system choice down in something as simple as a flowchart but there are some headline criteria you should think about.

Tom Anderson

Accelerate your UVM adoption and usage with an IDE

How an integrated design environment can help you overcome complexities within the Universal Verification Methodology and manage the size of the libraries within it.

EDA

  1. P2P-Feb20-featuredimage
    Article A better way to debug P2P results

    P2P (point-to-point) resistance is fundamental to IC reliability verification. Handle it more efficiently with detailed, automated path layout analysis.

  2. Article How to build your GDS to OASIS conversion flow
  3. Expert Insight System-of-systems validation for automotive design

PCB

  1. ECAD-MCAD collaboration - featured image
    Article The necessity and benefits of ECAD-MCAD collaboration for PCB design

    Collaboration across the electrical and mechanical domains leverages more tightly integrated and highly featured tools with richer data formats for greater accuracy and shorter time-to-market.

  2. Expert Insight Enabling the move to a system-centric view
  3. Article Tackling the design challenges of PCIe 5.0

IP

  1. Article Implementing high performance, low power Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces in SoCs

    A look at the complexiites of implementing a Bluetooth Low Eenergy interface in an SoC.

  2. Article Introduction to the Compute Express Link (CXL) device types
  3. Article Introduction to the Compute Express Link (CXL) protocols

Embedded

  1. Colin Walls
    Expert Insight Self-test strategies for embedded systems

    How to implement self-test across the four main areas where embedded systems can fail.

  2. Expert Insight Vehicle autonomy and electrification: a perfect match
  3. Article Introducing the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard: the hardware

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