D&R Industry Articles (November 2016)

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Protocols For The Wide-Area IoT

The internet of things (IoT) will rely on the ability to place sensors anywhere they are needed. The sensors could be embedded in bridges, scattered across the fields of farms or monitoring traffic from streetlights.

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Microcontroller Architects Look to Embedded FPGAs for Flexibility

Today, microcontroller families typically have dozens of versions that have various combinations of GPIO configurations: SPIs, UARTs, I2Cs, etc. to address the needs of different customers. This requires mask changes for each version. A new version takes quarters to go through the design and verification process. Now that microcontrollers are moving to the 40nm node where mask costs are ~$1M, a new solution is required.

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Do SoC Architects Have to Get Physical?

With the rapid adoption of the 16/14nm FinFET semiconductor manufacturing processes, the SoC architect’s job is becoming more difficult.

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A Look at New Open Standards to Improve Reliability and Redundancy of Automotive Ethernet

To meet the safety and deterministic latency requirements for controlling a car, a new set of open standards is being developed, collectively referred to as “Time Sensitive Networking,” or TSN. These improve the reliability, timing, redundancy, and failure detection ability of Ethernet to the level where it can be applied throughout an automobile. This article describes how Cadence has addressed the hardware requirements of TSN in its Automotive Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC).