Tag Archives: Mentor Graphics

A panel of experts from academia and industry assembled at the recent IEEE IMS 2015 to answer critical questions are the role and impact of RFIC technologies.

Debugging the debug process; homing in on UPF; sound digitization schemes; unit testing assertions; occupant aware homes; embedded system-level verification; the unexpected consequences of uninitialized variables; and glow-in-the-dark DDR4.

Big data and verification; reading design specs; all-digital radio; protocols: WiGig and HART; more from the Wilson verification study: FPGAs; the Studebaker plant gets a new lease on life; verification sequence portability; NASA space apps; draw a barn with SystemVerilog constraints; Industrial automation and the IoT; and upcoming events

UVM platform specifics and coding examples; ringing MOSFETs; the capture, care, and upkeep of young engineers; post-DVCon coverage, and building vs. Jaguar

Buffer, and ADC design considerations; all about timing specifications; portable stimulus; Star Trek and the IoT; the Wilson Group's functional verification study; RTOS performance; the Silicon Valley age gap; temperature and humidity sensors; requirements management; and the oft-dreaded question "What do you do for a living?"

Arduinos; software defined networks… and radios!; ARM/AMBA; TLS engines; embedded industrial automation; system-level power modelling; and collaborating more effectively by Hamilton Carter – Senior Editor If you like to play at your engineering, you should know a new version of the Arduino IDE has been released! Interested in software defined networking—SDN? Check out this Xilinx enabled kickstarter. ARM contributes to …

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

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 …

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

The holidays aren’t over yet!  Mentor’s Boris Marovic considers the science behind Santa.  Alien technology abounds. Follow an ex-Sparkfun engineer in his travels across Africa spreading robotics. Jama moved into a new headquarters for the new year! Things are a bit slow what with all the mandatory holiday shutdowns.  Here’s some fun holiday reading about the Blocks for the Intel …