D&R Industry Articles (November 2007)

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Pushing the Frontier in Managing Power in Embedded ASIC or SoC Design with PCI Express

This paper will discuss some techniques applicable to PCI Express such as changing device power states in coordination with operating system, managing clocks and managing device drivers. In addition, this presentation will present a trade-off analysis between latency and clock frequency with respect to power consumption.

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IP licensing fosters design flexibility

Emerging automotive electronics design model "decouples" supplier choice from technology choice, while advancing industry standards

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Configuration-based Environment that Supports Scalable PHY Verification

Leading-edge analog/mixed-signal design requires custom flows built with a variety of tools that use a multiplicity of design representations. When it is a centralized resource, a single verification team may be faced with overwhelming complexity when supporting multiple design teams, each with multiple tools and a variety of design representations.

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Formal Verification IPs: the corner stone for a broader adoption of Formal Verification

In this article we show how several areas of the functional verification task can benefit from automated formal verification: design coverage enhancement, protocol compliance checking and functional performance analysis. With our proposed methodology, these tasks can be achieved seamlessly by designers or verification engineers, thus bringing more automation and robustness to the verification of SoC designs.