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April 21, 2017
Visual: cars speeding along a road

Accelerating the development of powertrain ECUs with virtual hardware

How virtual hardware can speed up many aspects of automotive system development, including architectural analysis, software development and verification
April 10, 2017

Drawing on hierarchical DFT to benefit all designs and flows

Hierarchical DFT is vital for large, complex designs. Users still to transition to the technique can nevertheless exploit its pattern reuse strategies as they move toward adoption.
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April 4, 2017

Teaching computers to recognize a smile (or frown, or grimace or…)

Using deep learning techniques and convolutional neural networks to bring facial recognition capabilities to embedded systems.
March 15, 2017
DVCon China takes place at the Parkyard Hotel, Shanghai on April 19th.

DVCon China launches this April in Shanghai

DVCon China general chair Andy Liu discusses Accellera’s new addition to its design and verification conference series (简体中文).
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March 15, 2017
DVCon China takes place at the Parkyard Hotel, Shanghai on April 19th.

DVCon中国将于4月在上海亮相

DVCon中国大会主席刘红亮讨论了Accellera新增的DVCon中国ASIC设计和验证会议的看点。
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March 7, 2017
Angela Raucher is product line manager for Synopsys’ ARC EM processors.

An accelerated approach to achieving automotive safety with ASIL D

Addressing the challenge of achieving ASIL D certification of the functional safety of an SoC for use in the safety-critical path of an automotive system.
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March 3, 2017

Reducing the power consumption of USB Type-C digital headsets

Thinner phones are going to need new connectors. Many designers are considering USB Type-C, and the related Audio Device Class 3.0 specification (ADC 3.0), for use in high-quality digital headsets.
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February 23, 2017
Cache verification involves checking multiple scenarios

Cache-coherency checks call on portable stimulus

Portable stimulus and formal verification provide the means to handle the challenge of verifying cache-coherent SoC interconnects.
February 8, 2017
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Emulation strategies for SSD verification

SSD controllers are becoming increasingly complex and as a result emulation is now the first choice for SSD verification. But your strategy must still meet five key criteria.
January 27, 2017
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The SSD memory revolution

Richard Pugh looks at how innovations highlighted during the recent International Memory Workshop are driving the solid state drive (SSD) market.