Excerpts from a white paper. Today's automobiles contain many complex electronic systems, each of which may incorporate a large number of electronic control units (ECUs) performing a single function, ...

The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...

A Mentor Graphics announcement at DAC today highlightsthe cultural gulf between IC design and embedded software development teams,the degree to which the two are inextricably braided together in ...

Automotive software is becoming more expensive and central to a car’s identity. Infotainment, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), traction control, and even powertrain management are all shaped ...

Much has been written about the rise of field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) -based platforms over application-specific-integrated-circuit (ASIC) implementations. During the last few years, FPGAs have ...

System on chip (SoC) devices, by definition, use a combination of hardware and embedded software to provide their specified functionality. Both the design and programming teams face many challenges ...

As the software content in today's 2.5G and 3G phones rapidly increases, timely software development is becoming critical for product success. The traditional development flow—in which software design ...

As a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics Corporation, has announced the launch of a Virtual Solution Platform which it says enables development and evaluation of ...

They've got the process backwards and it's slowing down development of today's software-defined vehicles. That's what leaders at Swedish tech company RemotiveLabs are saying about the way automakers ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ESI Group (Paris:ESI), leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, helped Farasis Energy, a Chinese-American battery provider, ...

The battery management system (BMS) monitors, analyzes and adjusts when necessary, protecting the pack and making sure it consistently meets all requirements. BMS and battery are so intertwined that ...