{"id":87,"date":"2016-12-12T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/expertinsights\/?p=87"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:10:23","slug":"top-5-articles-of-the-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/expertinsights\/2016\/12\/12\/top-5-articles-of-the-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Articles of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Transistor Level ESD Verification in Large SoC Designs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. New Frontiers in the Storage System Market Call for the Best of ICE and Virtual Emulation<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. How Do Engineers Design Today\u2019s Astronomically Complicated Cars? Using These Tools<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Manufacturing for PCB Assembly & Fabrication<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
  5. How to Nail Your PPA Tradeoffs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Transistor Level ESD Verification in Large SoC Designs<\/a><\/strong>
    \nEDN\"AbsEDAESD\"<\/em>
    \nESD protection is critical to market success, but difficult to verify in large SoC designs. Dina Medhat explains how using voltage propagation and logic-aware checks can help.<\/p>\n

     
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    \n    New Frontiers in the Storage System Market Call for the Best of ICE and Virtual Emulation<\/a><\/strong>
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    \nStorage system design (SSD) technology is on the rise and SSD designers are relying on virtual emulation and deterministic ICE. This article explains why.<\/p>\n

     
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    \n    How Do Engineers Design Today\u2019s Astronomically Complicated Cars? Using These Tools<\/a><\/strong>
    \nDigital Trends\"mentor-automotive-cars-1200x0\"<\/em>
    \nEngineers are designing the next generation of automotive technology features with tools from Mentor Automotive.<\/p>\n

     
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    \n    Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Manufacturing for PCB Assembly & Fabrication<\/strong><\/a>
    \nSemiconductor Engineering\"Mentor-Graphics-Valor-IoT-Manufacturing-Solution<\/em>
    \nPCB manufacturing has needed a robust real-time, comprehensive shop-floor communication standard. Now, there is a solution: the Open Manufacturing Language (OML).<\/p>\n

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    \n    How to Nail Your PPA Tradeoffs<\/a><\/strong>
    \nSemiWiki\"8<\/em>
    \nHow do you ensure your design has been optimized for power, performance, and area? An RTL-level automated \u201cdesign space exploration\u201d that lets designers simultaneously explore various design alternatives prior to implementation.<\/p>\n

     
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