Functional safety analysis is a crucial step in the development of safety-critical systems. It ensures that the system-under-development meets its defined safety requirements and functions safely ...

Consumer electronics – tablets, smartphones and e-readers – is now leading the industry in growth. For system manufacturers and integrated circuit (IC) suppliers, the challenge involves keeping pace ...

Different challenges have to be overcome when designing integrated circuits. Besides schematic and layout design work, verification in view of the non-ideal behavior of circuits and semiconductor ...

Life changed for integrated circuit designers at process technology nodes below 100 nanometers. For a long time, it was estimated that an IC development project consumes more time in verification than ...