Standards

Vehicle-maker Volkswagen is putting its weight behind a set of microcontroller benchmarks that focus on energy consumption rather than performance.

Accellera Systems Initiative has published version of 1.0 of its Soft IP Tagging standard for adding licensing information to RTL and other design files.

Accellera Systems Initiative has created a working group to look at one of the knottiest problems in IC design: to simplify the job of checking designs when the bits come from so many sources and use languages that were not built for interoperability.

The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) is nearing publication of the latest version of its coding standard intended to make C safer for use in critical embedded systems.

The Multicore Association has published the MTAPI specification for a programming interface that aims to simplify the job of building applications that can not only use many cores running in parallel but schedule jobs dynamically depending on which types of core are available.

The Multicore Association has launched a guide to programming multicore systems in C and C++.

In 2013, the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference returns to Grenoble, France and with focus days on the Internet of Things and the cloud.

Cadence Design Systems has developed semiconductor IP for the automotive industry's OPEN Alliance to make ethernet the core networking backbone of future motor vehicles.

Mentor's Stephen Pateras explains how the proposed IJTAG standard speeds IP test by replacing time-consuming custom and ad hoc methodologies.

A group of companies based in the UK have formed a group that hopes to develop and promote standards for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications that employ gaps in radio spectrum rather than relying on dedicated frequency bands.