Expert Insights - Embedded

Rich Collins  |  November 6, 2017

Fighting the war of escalation in embedded systems security

The challenge for designers is to find ways of providing high levels of security in low-cost devices that have become worthwhile targets because of their role as gateways to more valuable information.
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Michael Chen  |  October 14, 2017

Making security a profit center for silicon

The assumption has been that extra security eats into profit margins. But with some lateral thinking it can actually improve the bottom line.
Pedro Ricardo Miguel  |  August 7, 2017

Supporting higher-resolution displays without major system redesign

Using VESA's Display Stream Compression (DSC) standard to enable visually lossless performance and low latency for ultra-high-definition displays.
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Richard Solomon  |  July 18, 2017

Using CCIX to implement cache coherent heterogeneous multiprocessor systems

CCIX is a cache coherency protocol, based on PCI Express, for interconnecting high-performance heterogenous multiprocessing systems.
Gordon Cooper  |  June 29, 2017

High-resolution visual recognition needs high-performance CNNs

Quadrupling the performance of a dedicated CNN engine within an embedded vision processing core brings more complex graph processing within reach.
Paul Dempsey  |  May 15, 2017

The Wally Rhines interview – Part Two: AI, automotive and security

This second part looks at Mentor's views on flow neutrality, how DRS360 was born, machine learning and the threat from embedded Trojans.
John Swanson  |  May 9, 2017

Building faster data centers with 25G Ethernet

The rising bandwidth demands of data centres have driven the development of 25G Ethernet, which will also form a pathway to 100G.
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Paul Dempsey  |  May 8, 2017

The Wally Rhines interview – Part One: Mentor as a Siemens business

Our extended fireside chat with Mentor Chairman and CEO Wally Rhines begins by canvassing his thoughts now the Siemens deal is done.
Angela Raucher  |  March 7, 2017

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.
Robert Vamosi  |  December 16, 2016

Software validation strategies for connected cars

Software validation strategies will become increasingly important as cars become more complex, connected and autonomous.