Arm Inches Up the Infrastructure Value Chain

Arm Inches Up the Infrastructure Value Chain
by Bernard Murphy on 08-30-2023 at 6:00 am

Arm just revealed at HotChips their compute subsystems (CSS) direction led by CSS N2. The intent behind CSS is to provide pre-integrated, optimized and validated subsystems to accelerate time to market for infrastructure system builders. Think HPC servers, wireless infrastructure, big edge systems for industry, city, enterprise… Read More


Bluetooth Based Positioning, More Accurate, More Reliable, Safer

Bluetooth Based Positioning, More Accurate, More Reliable, Safer
by Bernard Murphy on 08-22-2023 at 6:00 am

Using Bluetooth for positioning is a topic I have touched on before, for location services, keyless entry, and asset tracking among other applications. Earlier implementations depended on measures of received signal strength and angle-of-arrival / angle-of-departure, but these have limited accuracy in environments with… Read More


How Do You Future-Proof Security?

How Do You Future-Proof Security?
by Bernard Murphy on 08-17-2023 at 6:00 am

Secure IC applications min

If you are designing electronics to go into a satellite or a military drone, it better have a useful lifetime of 15-20 years or more. Ditto for the grid or other critical infrastructure, your car, medical devices, anything where we demand absolute reliability. Reliability also requires countermeasures against hacking by anyone… Read More


A New Verification Conference Coming to Austin

A New Verification Conference Coming to Austin
by Bernard Murphy on 08-15-2023 at 6:00 am

Actually not so new, just new to us in the US. Verification Futures is already well established as a Tessolve event with a 10-year track record in the UK. This year they are bringing the conference to Austin on September 14th (REGISTER HERE).

While DVCon is an ever-popular event for sharing verification ideas, it isn’t always accessible… Read More


VC Formal Enabled QED Proofs on a RISC-V Core

VC Formal Enabled QED Proofs on a RISC-V Core
by Bernard Murphy on 08-10-2023 at 6:00 am

The Synopsys VC Formal group have a real talent for finding industry speakers to talk on illuminating outside-the-box-topics in formal verification. Not too long ago I covered an Intel talk of this kind. A recent webinar highlighted use of formal methods used together with a cool technique I have covered elsewhere called Quick… Read More


Insights into DevOps Trends in Hardware Design

Insights into DevOps Trends in Hardware Design
by Bernard Murphy on 08-09-2023 at 6:00 am

DevOps

Periodically I like to check in on the unsung heroes behind the attention-grabbing world of design. I’m speaking of the people responsible for the development and deployment infrastructure on which we all depend – version control, testing, build, release – collectively known these days as DevOps (development operations). … Read More


Qualitative Shift in RISC-V Targets Raises Verification Bar

Qualitative Shift in RISC-V Targets Raises Verification Bar
by Bernard Murphy on 08-02-2023 at 6:00 am

SVIPs

I had grown comfortable thinking about RISC-V as a cost-saving and more flexible alternative to Intel/AMD or Arm in embedded applications. Where clearly it is already doing very well. But following a discussion with Dave Kelf and Adnan Hamid of Breker, RISC-V goals have become much more ambitious, chasing the same big system applications… Read More


Automated Code Review. Innovation in Verification

Automated Code Review. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 07-31-2023 at 6:00 am

Innovation New

A little thinking outside the box this time. Microsoft is adding automation to their (and LinkedIn) code reviews; maybe we should consider this option also? Paul Cunningham (Senior VP/GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and now Silvaco CTO) and I continue our series… Read More


Xcelium Safety Certification Rounds Out Cadence Safety Solution

Xcelium Safety Certification Rounds Out Cadence Safety Solution
by Bernard Murphy on 07-27-2023 at 6:00 am

MIDAS System min

While fully autonomous driving may now be a distant dream, ADAS continues to be a very active industry driver as much for its safety advantages as for other features. Today in the hierarchy of SAE levels, SAE 2+ may represent the most active area of development rather than levels 3 through 5. This range of options still requires a human… Read More


Convergence Between EDA and MCAD and Industrial Software

Convergence Between EDA and MCAD and Industrial Software
by Bernard Murphy on 07-25-2023 at 6:00 am

convergence eda mcad etc min

Cadence hosted a panel at DAC on how EDA, MCAD and industrial software have come together, a topic I always find interesting. Many years ago, I worked on a NAVAIR contract bid team, an eye-opener for a young engineer who thought that innovation started and ended with electronic design. I remember CATIA (3D modeling) being a component… Read More