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January 19, 2017
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USB Type-C: Verification challenges and solutions

The USB Type-C connector is versatile and already gaining traction in laptops, tablets and desktops. Here's how verification IP plays an important role in achieving the best implementation.
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January 18, 2017
Anders Nordstrom, senior corporate applications engineer, Verification Group, Synopsys

Are you formally connected?

To check the connectivity of an SoC, first you have to define what a connection is...
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January 11, 2017
Derek Bouius

Three steps to implementing robust encryption

A look at the steps necessary to validate implementations of the cryptographic algorithms that are used to protect today’s devices and communications infrastructure.
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January 10, 2017
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Accelerate silicon bring-up in a bench-top environment

How a new software-led flow speeds silicon bring-up within the Tessent environment, including a Cypress Semiconductor case study.
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December 29, 2016
Danit Atar is a senior marketing programs specialist at Mentor Graphics

A reliability checklist for the Connected World

Reliability is growing to match security as a key challenge for PCB design. These tools and techniques will help you rise to it.
December 20, 2016
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Nine effective features of NVMe VIP for SSD storage

The open NVMe standard is helping non-volatile memory storage reach its true potential with increasingly rich verification support
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December 16, 2016
Robert Vamosi, CISSP and security strategist at Synopsys

Software validation strategies for connected cars

Software validation strategies will become increasingly important as cars become more complex, connected and autonomous.
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December 12, 2016
Eric Huang, Synopsys

USB 2.0 as an integration standard for IoT products

USB 2.0 could become an integration standard for IoT SoCs, due to its ubiquity, available drivers, support for rapid prototyping, and area efficiency.
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December 9, 2016
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A new path for analog design constraints verification

Traditional techniques are being challenged by shortening design cycles and the effects of later process nodes.
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December 7, 2016

Tackling the multi-board reality of systems of systems

We talk to Mentor's David Wiens about how the company is giving the board-to-factory design flow a needed upgrade.