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Help Shape Wiley’s Latest Systems Engineering Management Book Now

It’s great to see a teaser for the upcoming 6th edition, even if it won’t be available until the end of this year (2025). I’m still happy to accept input from reviewers on various topics as I finish up the work by early summer. Here’s a quick look at a few key updates coming to the what’s coming SEM 6th …

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IP Trends; Patent and Startups; IP Theft; IOT Chips; Open Hardware; REUSE 2017

Home | IOT | Embedded Systems |  Systems Engineering |  Semiconductor-IP |  Online-Education Semi-IP Systems eletter [Nov 2017] Top Stories Lack of Patent Awareness Threatens Startups Panelist from the Silicon Valley patent office and leading patent attorneys address startup IP and patent issues at SPIE Photonics West. Trends Driving IP Reuse Through 2020 Semico Research’s Jim Feldhan shared detailed hardware-software intellectual property (IP) reuse trends through 2020 for the semiconductor …

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The Forgotten Importance of the System Context

Developing a comprehensive system context using Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) tools will help you engineer solutions the right problems.

By John Blyler, JB Systems and Bill Chown, Siemens Mentor Graphics Most engineers would prefer to do design work than spend much time on the often onerous task of requirements identification, derivation and allocation. The sooner they are given the relevant requirements, the sooner they can begin the work for which most engineers in the traditional domains have been educated–namely, …

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Automotive; Security; Resiliency; IP; Systems and DVCon

Home | IOT Embedded Systems |  Systems Engineering |  Semiconductor IP |  Online-Education Systems – IOT Embedded – Semi-IP Newsletter [April 2016] Top Stories What makes Automotive Electronics ISO 26262 Different from other Standards? A panel representing automotive, semiconductor, software and systems experts met to share insights on the hardware-software challenges of ISO 26262 compliance. Security focus for Embedded World Security took center stage at the Embedded World …

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Special Edition: RF IC Technology, Aug 2015

Subscribe Here’s a quick snapshot of IMS2015 by the numbers:   8,600+ attendees 23 percent first-time attendees 904 exhibitor booths (*new record*) Attendees from 56 countries 75 technical sessions 92 percent of exhibit space already sold for IMS2016 Conference management specialists for the IMS2015. Upcoming Events EuMW 2015 Sep. 6 – 11 Paris, France RWW 2016 Jan. 24 – 27 …

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The UVM Factory Object and Encapsulation or For God’s Sake Don’t Touch that Code!

The often-misunderstood UVM factory object provides a path to modify testcase behavior without the associated doom of touching already released code. by Hamilton Carter, Senior Editor All of us have seen some variation of the following flow chart:   The basic message, “If you can get away without touching it, you might just be OK,” applies as well to design verification …

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