IP Systems

Recent surveys reveal growth in IP Interfaces like DDRn, USB 3.0, PCIe, HDMI, SATA, and MIPI. Also, ethernet and ARM buses remain popular in specific areas.

Water Heaters; Flying Functional Covergage; USB; Firmware IP; DeflateGate and engineering; Unicorns and Androids

Technology traveler reports on IEEE IEDM trends in nanotechnology and Ford’s EnTransit events on the future of automotive transportation.

Microcontrollers and the 68000; Neural networks; Stacked dies; a Study of Studies; Always On; Smart Cities; Code Monkeys; Test Strategy; and Biometric Security

Experts from Synopsys, Imagination Technologies, and Silicon Labs expand on what they saw at CES 2015 and what it means for hardware and software IP subsystem designers. by Hamilton Carter, Senior Editor The shorter market windows associated with burgeoning IoT and entertainment product offerings are creating new challenges for hardware and software IP designers alike.  We spoke with Eric Huang, …

Android assembly programming, Sample and Hold Time for Dummies, near field communications, and the secret origin of the Udacity functional verification course By Hamilton Carter, Senior Editor The Altera SoC FPGA was selected for Audi’s advanced driver assistance system, (ADAS). How to program in assembly on an ARM/Android device. Mentor’s Josh Rensch provides quirky, irreverent advice on how design and …

Currently, the uncrowded 60GHz spectrum looks to greatly extend Wi-Fi if designers can meet challenges for inexpensive, small and low power modules.

Experts from ARM, Rambus, Atrenta and TSMC debate the new challenges faced by IP designers in the IoT space during the IPextreme Constellations event.

Engineering Resolutions; Vehicle Comm.; Chip-Level Security; UVM; Data Man. Report; Verifying Si; VCOs, Low-Power DDR4; IoT Regulations; Transformers.

Leveraging requirements traceability and the contextual knowledge of your entire organization is easier than it’s ever been as shown by these examples.