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Automotive electronics innovations in test quality

Automotive electronics innovations in test quality

The rapid development of advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles has grabbed the world’s attention and imagination. While true…

DeepChip: Joe Sawicki on ML, Calibre, Solido, VC funding, and heuristics

DeepChip: Joe Sawicki on ML, Calibre, Solido, VC funding, and heuristics

Excerpt from article: “DeepChip: Joe Sawicki on ML, Calibre, Solido, VC funding, and heuristics” Cooley: I mean, what, are you…

EE Journal: Neural Network Notions and Tools

EE Journal: Neural Network Notions and Tools

Excerpt from article: “Neural Network Notions and Tools” Tools and Blocks So <deep breath> with all of that under our…

Maximize diagnosis throughput with Dynamic Partitioning

Maximize diagnosis throughput with Dynamic Partitioning

Charged with the task of improving yield, product engineers need to find the location of defects in manufactured ICs quickly…

DFT for AI chips draws a crowd at ITC India tutorial

DFT for AI chips draws a crowd at ITC India tutorial

At the recently concluded ITC India conference, Mentor experts presented the two highest-attended tutorials. One tutorial was AI Chip Technologies…

Synthesizing Hardware From Software

Synthesizing Hardware From Software

Excerpt from article: “Synthesizing Hardware From Software” In the past, many co-processor solutions have been dogged by communications costs. “There…

How-to implement hierarchical DFT on Arm cores

How-to implement hierarchical DFT on Arm cores

The new reference flow jointly developed by Arm and Mentor for hierarchical DFT and ATPG with Tessent is described in…

DFT architectural tips: the importance of reference flows

DFT architectural tips: the importance of reference flows

This video, the last in a series of three, discusses the Tessent platform capabilities and the reference flows, test cases,…

Determining Where Power Analysis Matters Most

Determining Where Power Analysis Matters Most

Excerpt from article: “Determining Where Power Analysis Matters Most” Getting more granular with power Krishnaswamy noted that RTL power vs. gate…