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5G SoCs Demand New Verification Approaches

5G SoCs Demand New Verification Approaches

Learn how to create a new verification flow that combines emulation and X STEP, a platform that can generate, capture, and analyze bit-accurate fronthaul traffic.


Virtual PCIe Delivers a “Shift Left” in Software Defined Networking Emulation

Virtual PCIe Delivers a “Shift Left” in Software Defined Networking Emulation

Explore how VirtuaLAB PCIe and Ethernet Virtual Machines (VM) work together, how they compete for host resources and how VMs address the big device management channel requirements for HW and SW co-verification in Veloce emulation.


End-to-End Vehicle Verification

End-to-End Vehicle Verification

This paper describes how a PreScan, Veloce, and AMEsim tool flow provides the thoroughness of verification to get new cars on the road quickly, efficiently, and safely.


Increase Hardware Emulation Productivity with Virtual Mode Share

Increase Hardware Emulation Productivity with Virtual Mode Share

Explore the advantages and benefits of Veloce VirtuaLAB emulation, backed up by three test cases.


Veloce Delivers Best of ICE and Virtual Emulation to the SSD Storage Market

Veloce Delivers Best of ICE and Virtual Emulation to the SSD Storage Market

This white paper discusses the changes in storage technology and why SSD design teams need a complementary tool kit using ICE, the Veloce Deterministic ICE App, and VirtuaLAB.


The Veloce Strato Platform: Unique Core Components Create High Value Advantages

The Veloce Strato Platform: Unique Core Components Create High Value Advantages

Explore how the Veloce® Strato emulation platform chip, operating system software, and hardware work together to enhance verification productivity.


Veloce Primo Completes a Full SoC Verification Landscape

Veloce Primo Completes a Full SoC Verification Landscape

This white paper discusses how SoC verification teams can achieve higher capacity than the desktop prototype and reduce the overall cost of ownership of their hardware verification resources even as it helps to accelerate the verification cycle.


SoC Verification and Validation on Day 1

SoC Verification and Validation on Day 1

Explore this unified software-enabled verification and validation environment that breaks the dependencies between hardware design groups and software developers.


Automated ESD Protection Verification for 2.5D and 3D ICs

Automated ESD Protection Verification for 2.5D and 3D ICs

Take a look at verification challenges and walk through a proven automated ESD verification methodology for 2.5D and 3D ICs.


Automated Post-Processing of DRC Errors Improves Debugging Productivity

Automated Post-Processing of DRC Errors Improves Debugging Productivity

Learn how to quickly and accurately analyze and fix (or waive) a wide range of complex error conditions with automated post-processing DRC debugging flows.


Multicore System Management: Hypervisor or Multicore Framework?

Multicore System Management: Hypervisor or Multicore Framework?

Deciding to use a hypervisor or a multicore framework, or both, to control and manage a multicore system is a critical architecture decision. This white paper provides information to help designers make the final decision that is dependent on the specific application requirements and the use case for their device.


Using Linux in Medical Devices

Using Linux in Medical Devices

This white paper covers the following medical safety, and device security, how to address security issues when they arise, medical device certification, mixed-safety critical systems, the hardware platform, and the optimum use of hardware.


Multicore System Management FAQs

Multicore System Management FAQs

This white paper addresses the most frequently asked questions developers have when choosing how to control and manage a multicore system.


Enabling Embedded Devices for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Enabling Embedded Devices for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

This paper outlines the key architectural considerations required for the successful operation of smart devices within an IIoT infrastructure with a focus on the software that runs on the device.


Why MEMS Accelerometers Are Becoming the Designer’s Best Choice for CbM Applications

Why MEMS Accelerometers Are Becoming the Designer’s Best Choice for CbM Applications

The global condition-based monitoring (CbM) market has experienced significant growth over the past few years, and it will likely only continue to grow in the near future. This growth coincides with the rapid advancement of MEMS accelerometers for use in vibration sensing applications, now rivaling the once-dominant piezoelectric (or PZT) accelerometer. 


Embedded Analytics: A Platform Approach

Embedded Analytics: A Platform Approach

This paper outlines the multi-dimensional nature of this complexity and the costs and opportunities it generates. It also demonstrates that the key to designers meeting this challenge is the ability to attain system-level visibility: both during the semiconductor development cycle, and subsequently after embedded systems are deployed in the field.


IoT Regulatory Compliance

IoT Regulatory Compliance

Discover deep insights into regulatory compliance tests, why it is important, its test challenges, and the solutions to overcome these obstacles.


Reducing IR and EM Issues With Automated Via Insertion

Reducing IR and EM Issues With Automated Via Insertion

This paper shows how manufacturing requirements can be leveraged to perform automated insertion of DRC/LVS-clean vias.


Optimizing Embedded Systems Power Requirements with Hybrid PMIC Design

Optimizing Embedded Systems Power Requirements with Hybrid PMIC Design

Building blocks of modern embedded systems, including processors, SoCs, system DRAM, non-volatile memories, sensors, and connectivity modules, have varied power requirements. On one extreme, a system power management IC (PMIC) integrates all or almost all of the required power rails. On the other hand, individual power rails are implemented using discrete dc/dc and LDOs.


Critical Area Based Test Pattern Optimization

Critical Area Based Test Pattern Optimization

Among the challenges for design-for-test (DFT) engineers is how to set a target metric for automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) and how to choose the best set of patterns. Traditional coverage targets based on the number of faults detected don’t consider the likelihood of one fault occurring compared to another.