Cadence combines physically-aware scan logic with elastic decompression in new test solution. What does that really mean? By John Blyler, Editorial Director Cadence recently announced the Modus Test Solution suite that the company claims will enable up to 3X reduction in test time and up to 2.6X reduction in compression logic wirelength. This improvement is made possible, in part, by …
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Augmenting System Change
Design experts from many domains have a new way to collaborate change that doesn’t affect their tool flow or development process. By John Blyler, Founding Advisor And Affiliate Professor, Systems Engineering Department, Portland State University The one constant in the design of complex systems has been the necessity to communicate and manage change. Since the earliest days of modern systems …
Read More »Hyperspectral Imaging – Basics and Agriculture Apps
At the SPIE Photonics West 2015 event, Imec talks about the basics of hyperspectral imaging and miniaturized applications in precision agriculture.
Read More »Online Credited Course – Managing Complex Systems
Managing complex technical systems presents different challenges from typical project/program management. This course will explore those differences using good (systems) engineering principals, numerous case studies and modern tools. Some of the contemporary topics include...
Read More »The Dangers of Code Cut-Paste Techniques
A common coding practice can lead to product efficiency but also software maintenance nightmares and technical debt.
Read More »Scottish Firm Uses Optimization to Move Beyond EDA to Embedded
Criticalblue’s CEO David Stewart reveals how software driven hardware performance optimization moved them beyond the chip design world.
Read More »Portland Panel: Compliance Design-Verif. For Automotive and Beyond
Interested in the way compliance standards will affect the design-verification of electronic hardware-software systems? Or how such standards might impact the automotive and semiconductor industries? Listen what the experts have to say.
Read More »Philosophy, Technology and Morality – A Volatile Combination?
Tonight’s Linus Pauling Lecture series will host Dr. Shannon Vallor, Chair of the Philosophy at Santa Clara Univ. in Silicon Valley. Her talk focuses on techno-morality.
Read More »Security Architecture Proposed by Prpl Foundation
The Prpl Foundation, the group founded to develop open-source software for the MIPS architecture, published techniques intended to improve the security of embedded systems.
Read More »Complex Courses: Security; Techno-morality; Beyond EDA; Cut-Paste Dangers; RFIC; Custom SOCs
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