D&R Industry Articles (March 2017)

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The Functional Safety Imperative in Automotive Design

Functional safety is about ensuring that products operate safely and do so even when they go wrong. Here’s why you can’t choose to ignore it.

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IP Breadcrumbs Method for tracking IP versions in SOC Database

propose a novel method of breadcrumb insertion that is non-intrusive and easy to setup within the context of the IP-SOC development ecosystem. This method adds no overhead on the IP side nor on the SOC side. It is architected to be non-invasive but effective in dealing with today’s mix of reuse IP’s and concurrently developed IP’s. This method also addresses tracking of hierarchical IP’s that are nested within a given parent IP or IP subsystem.