Engineers say the best way to make vehicles fully autonomous is to analyze all sensor signals and driving situations with a centralized processor. AMIN KASHI, MATTHIAS POLLACH, NIZAR SALLEM, Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business It’s no secret that elbow room may be growing scarce among the companies working on self-driving tech. A Comet Labs tally […]
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Embedded Linux support for Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs
Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced an update to its market-leading embedded product portfolio with broad coverage for the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU102 Evaluation Kit. This release provides developers with support for the unique combination of multicore processors on the MPSoC development platform with Mentor Embedded Linux, Nucleus RTOS, Mentor Embedded Hypervisor, Code Sourcery […]
Today’s complex ‘system of systems’ driving need for sophisticated tools, detailed modeling, data continuity
by Bill Schweber, Jaffa Engineering, LLC It’s not news that many of today’s products are actually a complex “system of systems” consisting of two, three and more semi-independent subsystems, each with its own complexity and intricacies. What has changed is the dramatic degree to which these constituent systems are now interrelated at more and higher […]
Emulation platform for system-level, RTL, GL hardware gets ISO 26262 compliance certification
Mentor, a Siemens business, announces that independent compliance firm SGS-TÜV Saar has certified the ISO 26262 compliance of tool qualification reports for key software elements of its groundbreaking new Veloce® Strato™ emulation platform. The certification extends Mentor’s leadership in functional safety assurance and hardware emulation technology, while helping chip designers meet and exceed the increasingly […]
Android 6.0 development tools handle multiprocessor SoCs
Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced the availability of Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) for the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+™ MPSoC. By combining the features of the Mentor Embedded software solutions and the Xilinx heterogeneous multiprocessor system-on-a-chip (SoC), developers can safely introduce Android into advanced applications targeting the industrial, medical, automotive, and aerospace and defense markets. This Android […]
Automated printed PCB design-for-manufacturing flow replaces traditional, manual error-prone processes
Valor NPI [New Product Introduction] design-for-manufacturing (DFM) technology is said to automate printed circuit board design reviews based on the PCB technology and manufacturing processes employed. Unlike traditional DFM methods that limited the use of DFM technology to subject-matter experts, the new Valor NPI is said to let designers benefit from DFM without having to […]
RTL-quality verification brought to the C-language level
Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced three new tools – Catapult Coverage, Catapult Design Checks and SLEC HLS – and enhancements to Catapult HLS. These new tools and enhancements further strengthen Mentor’s High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tool portfolio, which enables logic chip designers to cut project schedules by over 50 percent for applications such as machine vision, machine […]
Building security into IoT and IIoT end devices
Tools, operating systems, platforms, and services help open new doors for developers building security into their connected, modern-day IoT infrastructure. WARREN KURISU | MENTOR GRAPHICS Industries increasingly rely on their connected devices and networks, and they are also becoming aware that they must deter or prevent cyber attacks. It is nearly impossible to field an […]
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Autonomous driving platform eliminates pre-processing MCUs, meets SAE Level 5
Mentor, a Siemens business, today introduced the DRS360 platform – a comprehensive automated driving solution featuring breakthrough technology that captures, fuses and utilizes raw data in real time from a wide range of sensing modalities, including radar, LIDAR, vision and other sensors. The DRS360 platform delivers dramatic improvements in latency reduction, sensing accuracy and overall […]
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Comparing Channel Operating Margin (COM) and traditional statistical Eye/BER analysis for advanced high-speed design
by Christian Filip, Mentor Graphics Today’s electronic products are becoming increasingly dense and complex, making it ever more challenging to meet performance targets. High-speed design requires fast and accurate simulations from the design planning phase, throughout the design process, and in the post-layout stage, to ensure that products can be manufactured and work as intended […]