Approaches to Functional Safety in Automotive Design
Learn about basic functional safety, common erroneous states and their detection, and related microcontroller design strategies to implement functional safety…
5 Tips for Secure Online Projects
Of course, you must have a strong password set in place, but there are other steps you can take. How…
What’s effective return loss, anyway? (Part 2)
In Part 1, Ransom Stephens showed the need for a reflection specification that accounts for equalization, but he never said…
Creating a custom processor with RISC-V
The RISC-V instruction set architecture is an open framework that allows design of a customized processor that can leverage tools…
Design patterns in SystemVerilog OOP for UVM verification
See how SystemVerilog supports templates for generic code writing using parameterized classes, and some of the design patterns in the…
3D vision gives robots guidance
Many options exist for 3D machine vision, each addressing different application needs.
Improve accuracy of electrical system thermal simulation with full-circuit 3D modeling
Full-circuit electro-thermal simulation, using an IGBT power inverter as an example, accounts for power dissipation and temperature variations throughout the…
Adapt single-coil relay driver to dual-coil use
A few diodes can extend designer options when using latched relays.