Emulation has become a critical component of system design, allowing hardware and software development and debug to proceed in parallel. For peripheral subsystems, the host and it’s associated application stack communicate with a device and driver. And increasingly a high-speed serial link is involved. This is the point where emulation must be complemented with
hardware validation.
Car electronization trend in automotive industryKenji Suzuki
As EV/HEV and other alternative powertrain gaining popularity, more and more electronics are adopted in a vehicle. Until recently, such electronics were supplied mainly by "conventional" tier1s and tier2s in the industry. However, the increase in electronics used in a vehicle is opening up the door for consumer electronics manufacturers to join.
What does it mean in terms of reliability and durability of a vehicle. What needs to be done for reliability and durability assessment.
Arasan Chip Systems develops and marketing interface IP that meets MIPI standards. Digital IP can typically be emulated in FPGA, but mixed signal IP for physical interface cannot. Arasan provides MIPI D-PHY and MIPI M-PHY is module form for application processor / system on a chip developers to use with their emulation boards.
USB 2.0 is the dominant peripheral interface for data transfer and charging. Arasan’s Total USB IP solution includes the USB 2.0 Host with an EHCI controller and integrated USB 2.0 Hub, enabling support for all USB 2.0 speeds; USB 2.0 Device and OTG controllers, and a USB 2.0 PHY available in a wide range of foundries and process nodes.
SD 4.1 is the latest generation of storage card interface IP. SD 4.1 provides up to 312MB of bandwidth in half-duplex (one way) or 156MB in both directions.
eMMC 5.0 is the latest generation of embedded NAND Flash IP. Arasan provides a complete solution including digital controllers for host and device, the mixed PHY I/O and pads, software drivers, hardware validation and support.
Arasan Chip Systems provides total silicon IP solutions to help customers achieve the fastest time to silicon success for mobile integrated circuits. They offer a broad portfolio of digital and analog IP, including standards-based IP for interfaces like SD, SDIO, eMMC, and MIPI, as well as software stacks, verification IP, and hardware validation platforms. Arasan has over 300 licensees for its IP and sales offices worldwide to support customers in mobile markets like smartphones and tablets.
Smartphones are the personal computers of the 21st century. The performance and functionality of the device, the performance and capacity of cloud-based servers, and the
bandwidth of 4G cellular networks have created a $100B market in the developed world. Smartphone shipments are expected to grow 32.7% year over year in 2013 reaching 958.8 million units. The market for high-end phones, dominated by Apple and Samsung, will continue to grow at ~8% CAGR, but the next surge in growth will come from mid-range phones ($200 to $400), and low-end phones priced below $200. These segments are expected to experience ~15% CAGR according to analysts.
Car electronization trend in automotive industryKenji Suzuki
As EV/HEV and other alternative powertrain gaining popularity, more and more electronics are adopted in a vehicle. Until recently, such electronics were supplied mainly by "conventional" tier1s and tier2s in the industry. However, the increase in electronics used in a vehicle is opening up the door for consumer electronics manufacturers to join.
What does it mean in terms of reliability and durability of a vehicle. What needs to be done for reliability and durability assessment.
Arasan Chip Systems develops and marketing interface IP that meets MIPI standards. Digital IP can typically be emulated in FPGA, but mixed signal IP for physical interface cannot. Arasan provides MIPI D-PHY and MIPI M-PHY is module form for application processor / system on a chip developers to use with their emulation boards.
USB 2.0 is the dominant peripheral interface for data transfer and charging. Arasan’s Total USB IP solution includes the USB 2.0 Host with an EHCI controller and integrated USB 2.0 Hub, enabling support for all USB 2.0 speeds; USB 2.0 Device and OTG controllers, and a USB 2.0 PHY available in a wide range of foundries and process nodes.
SD 4.1 is the latest generation of storage card interface IP. SD 4.1 provides up to 312MB of bandwidth in half-duplex (one way) or 156MB in both directions.
eMMC 5.0 is the latest generation of embedded NAND Flash IP. Arasan provides a complete solution including digital controllers for host and device, the mixed PHY I/O and pads, software drivers, hardware validation and support.
Arasan Chip Systems provides total silicon IP solutions to help customers achieve the fastest time to silicon success for mobile integrated circuits. They offer a broad portfolio of digital and analog IP, including standards-based IP for interfaces like SD, SDIO, eMMC, and MIPI, as well as software stacks, verification IP, and hardware validation platforms. Arasan has over 300 licensees for its IP and sales offices worldwide to support customers in mobile markets like smartphones and tablets.
Smartphones are the personal computers of the 21st century. The performance and functionality of the device, the performance and capacity of cloud-based servers, and the
bandwidth of 4G cellular networks have created a $100B market in the developed world. Smartphone shipments are expected to grow 32.7% year over year in 2013 reaching 958.8 million units. The market for high-end phones, dominated by Apple and Samsung, will continue to grow at ~8% CAGR, but the next surge in growth will come from mid-range phones ($200 to $400), and low-end phones priced below $200. These segments are expected to experience ~15% CAGR according to analysts.
Arasan Chip Systems provides high quality IP solutions through a rigorous verification process. They verify digital IP through functional coverage, system simulations, and hardware validation. They also verify analog IP compliance and mixed-signal operation. Their process involves verifying IP at the subsystem level across digital, analog, and software domains to ensure everything works together seamlessly for customers.
This white paper discusses benchmarking mobile storage, specifically NAND flash memory used in devices like smartphones and tablets. It describes the increasing demands on NAND flash for higher capacity, lower cost, and bandwidth. Benchmarking NAND flash at the component and system level is important for product design. The paper also introduces the Arasan Hardware Validation Platform, which provides a flexible system for benchmarking, IP development, and validation of NAND flash and storage standards like SD, eMMC, and UFS. Benchmark results using the HVP show read speeds of over 90MB/s and write speeds of over 58MB/s.
The document discusses Universal Flash Storage (UFS), which was created as a replacement for eMMC to meet increasing requirements for high bandwidth, high capacity, low power mobile storage. UFS uses a serial interface that builds on standards like SCSI, MIPI UniPro and M-PHY. It offers significantly higher performance than eMMC along with improved power efficiency. An ideal UFS implementation requires a complete IP solution including digital IP blocks, analog PHY IP, verification IP and software/hardware validation tools.
This whitepaper describes practical considerations and best practices for Mobile Imaging and Display for Smartphone and Tablet Computing applications as well as exploring Silicon IP selection and successful adoption based on Arasan’s experience with customer engagements.
Radio Frequency Front End (RFFE) MIPI core from Arasan Chip SystemsArasan Chip Systems
The RF Front-End Control Interface (RFFE) was developed to offer a common method for controlling RF front-end devices such as Power Amplifiers, Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNA), filters, switches, power management modules, antenna tuners and sensors that can be controlled using RFFE.
The document introduces the ONFI 3.0 NAND flash controller standard. It features faster data transfer speeds up to 200MT/s using differential signaling and DDR-2. It allows for dynamically scalable error correction and supports new commands. Arasan provides a fully compliant ONFI 3.0 controller core along with documentation, models, and verification IP to help customers integrate it into their designs.
The document discusses Arasan's SD 4.0 device controller IP solution. Key points include:
- SD 4.0 allows for faster throughput up to 1.56 GB/s per lane and uses differential signaling.
- Arasan's SD 4.0 controller architecture supports the SD 4.0 specification and delivers a compliant Verilog implementation along with verification suites and documentation.
- Arasan provides a total IP solution with analog and digital cores, software, verification IP, and design services to enable low-cost and low-risk integration of the SD 4.0 standard from the PHY layer to software.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Arasan Chip Systems provides high quality IP solutions through a rigorous verification process. They verify digital IP through functional coverage, system simulations, and hardware validation. They also verify analog IP compliance and mixed-signal operation. Their process involves verifying IP at the subsystem level across digital, analog, and software domains to ensure everything works together seamlessly for customers.
This white paper discusses benchmarking mobile storage, specifically NAND flash memory used in devices like smartphones and tablets. It describes the increasing demands on NAND flash for higher capacity, lower cost, and bandwidth. Benchmarking NAND flash at the component and system level is important for product design. The paper also introduces the Arasan Hardware Validation Platform, which provides a flexible system for benchmarking, IP development, and validation of NAND flash and storage standards like SD, eMMC, and UFS. Benchmark results using the HVP show read speeds of over 90MB/s and write speeds of over 58MB/s.
The document discusses Universal Flash Storage (UFS), which was created as a replacement for eMMC to meet increasing requirements for high bandwidth, high capacity, low power mobile storage. UFS uses a serial interface that builds on standards like SCSI, MIPI UniPro and M-PHY. It offers significantly higher performance than eMMC along with improved power efficiency. An ideal UFS implementation requires a complete IP solution including digital IP blocks, analog PHY IP, verification IP and software/hardware validation tools.
This whitepaper describes practical considerations and best practices for Mobile Imaging and Display for Smartphone and Tablet Computing applications as well as exploring Silicon IP selection and successful adoption based on Arasan’s experience with customer engagements.
Radio Frequency Front End (RFFE) MIPI core from Arasan Chip SystemsArasan Chip Systems
The RF Front-End Control Interface (RFFE) was developed to offer a common method for controlling RF front-end devices such as Power Amplifiers, Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNA), filters, switches, power management modules, antenna tuners and sensors that can be controlled using RFFE.
The document introduces the ONFI 3.0 NAND flash controller standard. It features faster data transfer speeds up to 200MT/s using differential signaling and DDR-2. It allows for dynamically scalable error correction and supports new commands. Arasan provides a fully compliant ONFI 3.0 controller core along with documentation, models, and verification IP to help customers integrate it into their designs.
The document discusses Arasan's SD 4.0 device controller IP solution. Key points include:
- SD 4.0 allows for faster throughput up to 1.56 GB/s per lane and uses differential signaling.
- Arasan's SD 4.0 controller architecture supports the SD 4.0 specification and delivers a compliant Verilog implementation along with verification suites and documentation.
- Arasan provides a total IP solution with analog and digital cores, software, verification IP, and design services to enable low-cost and low-risk integration of the SD 4.0 standard from the PHY layer to software.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and Milvus
Full Speed Validation for Mobile IP
1. White Paper
Full
Speed
Validation
Platform
for
Mobile
IP
By Andrew Haines, World Wide VP Marketing
Copyright Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. 2013
Executive Summary
Mobile systems rely on a large number of complex IP functions for memory and
peripherals subsystems.
To enable rapid adoption of digital IP into customer silicon, most design IP
vendors offer synthesizable RTL source, synthesis scripts, and verification IP.
For analog and mixed-signal IP, most vendors offer a complete physical design
package, along with chip integration guidelines. These deliverables address
design integration and functional verification, however, for evolving standards
there are other gaps that early adopters must fill to realize the competitive
advantage of right-the-first-time development with the shortest time to market.
Emulation has become a critical component of system design, allowing
hardware and software development and debug to proceed in parallel. For
peripheral subsystems, the host and it’s associated application stack
communicate with a device and driver. And increasingly a high-speed serial link
is involved. This is the point where emulation must be complemented with
hardware validation.
2. Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. Full Speed Validation Platform
May 2013 p2
Mobile Connectivity Standards from the MIPI Alliance®
There is an ever-increasing choice of mobile storage and connectivity silicon IP
for camera, display, low-speed e.g. audio, Bluetooth, etc. available in RTL or
GDS-II form. For mobile connectivity, the largest growth is seen with MIPI
protocols. The MIPI standards organization has and actively continues to define
and drive a spectrum of optimized standards for interfacing among application
processors, baseband and RF IC’s, human-machine interfaces, power
management controllers and RF front-end components. According to sources
quoted by MIPI, the number of MIPI-powered IC’s will grow to 6.2 billion units
by 2015, with at least one MIPI specification reaching 100% of smartphones by
2013.
IC to IC Connectivity
Each connectivity or storage standard defines the protocols and signaling
requirements for two or more devices to communicate with each other. Any
device (like a mobile applications processor) requires a complementary device it
communicates with (like a display or camera module) that adheres to the same
protocol and signaling requirements. The two complementary devices either
operate as peers, or as a master and a slave.
High speed serial I/O & link layers
To increase battery life and minimize chip pins to reduce package, serial
interfacing is becoming increasingly popular. In the recent years, the complexity
of these standard protocols has ballooned, with the introduction of serial
interfaces and multi-layered links, like those based on MIPI UniproSM
need to
identify and enumerate other devices, configure themselves accordingly, and
manage the data transfers according to the capabilities of other devices and the
requirements of end-user applications.
The Silicon Validation Gap
A silicon vendor introducing a new storage or mobile connectivity interface will
ultimately need to validate his device, usually implemented as an FPGA
prototype, with a complementary device. Often, a silicon vendor who is an early
adopter of a standard, may not find complementary devices ready for validation
soon enough. That raises the need for cost-effective, protocol and signaling-
compliant, full speed alternate solution for a complementary device.
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Validation vs. Emulation
Traditionally, for connectivity protocols like USB, PCI-Xpress, etc. the
semiconductor community has used hardware emulation for design validation
purposes. Since those systems also incorporate major portions of the complete
chip design, partitioning across multiple FPGA’s or specialized processors
impose upper limits on performance. Speed matching solutions or “slow down”
solutions allow interfacing to external hardware like testers, which run at their
native speeds. A number of interfaces, like those from MIPI, present new
validation challenges. Speed matching solutions for those protocols do not
exist, and PHY’s are out of the scope of those solutions in any case. Moreover,
the high cost of those solutions prevents scaling to downstream use models like
production testing. What is needed is a set of platforms that allow standards
compatible, at-speed execution of new connectivity protocols, with the
appropriate hooks for software/driver development, ultimately leading to a cost-
effective production testing infrastructure.
Figure 2. Limitations of Emulation
Arasan Hardware Validation Platform Detail
Arasan’s family of Hardware Validation Platforms provides such a solution. They
are targeted for various connectivity protocols that span imaging, camera,
audio, storage and inter-chip connectivity protocols for mobile platforms. These
platforms are not meant to replace traditional emulators, but to complement
them.
Each connectivity protocol has two sides to a connection – a host or master,
and a device or slave. The protocol standards specify the schemes for data and
control encapsulation before being sent over a physical medium, and payload
extraction when received from the same medium. These schemes are
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implemented with connectivity IP’s which themselves are programmable for
different configurations and modes of operation. Many of these schemes
impose timeouts and transmission retries, which mandate at-speed operation.
Arasan offers separate validation platforms to separately model host and device
functionality for many of the mobile connectivity protocols. A given platform
emulates a peer or target that a DUT is meant to communicate with, hence is a
perfect platform for validation of the DUT when it is implemented and ready for
testing within an FPGA prototype, a silicon reference board or part of a
complete system. Note that he scope of the validation is limited to the
configuration and runtime behavior of the specific connectivity protocol between
the host and the device. Since the Arasan Hardware Validation Platforms
(HVP’s) are based on readily available FPGA’s operating within a Linux system,
they are highly cost effective. Their ability to run at the high speeds required by
the various protocols make them an excellent complement to verification and
validation practices using traditional emulators.
Figure 3. Inside the HVP
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The hardware is comprised of a standard Linux PC platform, with PCI-Xpress
connectivity to an FPGA board that contains the Arasan IP. For external
interface protocols that require an analog PHY, like D-PHY, M-PHY and USB-2
PHY, there is a special connectivity board that is mounted onto the FPGA based
IP board, with SMA connectors provided for easy hook up to DUT hardware
environments. For each protocol there is typically a host platform and a separate
device platform, which emulate the link and PHY for the host and device
respectively.
Software stack binaries are included in the platform, with user-friendly interface
and a rich set of debug messaging features. When interacting with the DUT, the
HVP provides the runtime control (where applicable) as well as runtime
execution messaging. This makes it the perfect vehicle for connectivity protocol
specific validation.
The software stack has a well-documented set of API’s for function driver or
application development. This extends the use model from validation to
software development. For this purpose, a customer typically licenses the
source code for the software stack, and Arasan provides guidelines for porting
to other OS’s, like Android.
Such HVP use models are particularly advantageous with respect to cutting
edge protocols, for which host and device capabilities do not exist in the
products available in the marketplace.
Validation Starts Early in the Cycle
The validation use model applies throughout a product cycle. Consider a
situation where there is a new protocol, and neither the host nor device are
available in any silicon form to validate with. Your first silicon implementation of
your DUT, which includes the new connectivity protocol, would typically be in
the form of a FPGA prototype. You can get a significant amount of validation
done with the Arasan HVP, and when commercially available products are
phased in for validation, the HVP continues to serve as a golden reference to
help analyze and debug any incompatibilities between the third party silicon and
your DUT. The same practice can be followed with your silicon reference board,
in case your silicon is available before the peer device. A number of customers
have extended this use model to system validation, and have leveraged
Arasan’s HVP designs to create production test environments.
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Validation Reduces Time to Market
The greatest advantage that HVP’s bring to the table is significant reduction in
time to market. In this example, we show a scenario where the host and device
silicon vendors are different entities, and have widely differing product release
schedules to the OEM. Consider the case where both vendors do not have
access to the Arasan HVP’s. In this example, the host vendor has to wait till the
device vendor has an FPGA prototype ready to interoperate with. Until that
validation completes certain milestones, the OEM cannot proceed with system
validation.
Figure 4. Hardware Validation reduces development time
Since Arasan is among the first to implement a new mobile connectivity protocol
in both RTL and a validation platform, both the host and device silicon vendor
can use these platforms. In this example, the host silicon vendor would get
started with the Arasan HVP, then switch over to validation his prototype with
the device silicon vendor’s prototype. Both vendors would proceed with their
interoperability and validation efforts through the end of the silicon reference
board phase, and provide incremental updates to their common OEM customer.
The OEM saves time to market with early validation and with platforms for early
software development.
Example
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Let’s look at a specific example of a UFS device silicon vendor. His objective is
to develop and ship a flash memory device that communicates with an apps
processor on a mobile platform using the UFS protocol. This protocol uses the
MIPI M-PHY as the physical layer and the MIPI Unipro as the link layer. Early
flash device adopters of this protocol did not have access to AP’s with UFS host
capabilities, hence they chose to use the UFS Host HVP as the platform to
validate their DUT’s with. Licensing the UFS Device Software Stack source
code, they developed their own function drivers using the API’s that Arasan
provides, and tested the software on a UFS Device Validation Platform before
porting it to their own prototypes. In parallel, they developed a production
testing application that resided on top of the UFS Host Software Stack, and
leveraged the Host HVP FPGA board design to create a production test
platform. All this work has been done before the first apps processor with UFS
connectivity is available.
Summary
Validation of silicon and end systems with new connectivity standards is a time
to market challenge. Serial connectivity with high-speed analog and differential
signaling is now more of a norm with new connectivity standards. The
differences lie in power management capability, bit rates, and common mode
and differential voltage levels. Behind the analog PHY’s are link layers that
incorporate increasingly complex hardware and software protocols to increase
system level connectivity options. Consequently, a true Total IP Solution has
gone beyond verification and physical design enablement. Combined
hardware/software modeling and implementation of target or peer devices or
systems is a necessity for both hardware/software validation and software
development – starting with FPGA boards, all the way through silicon reference
boards and production testing. Arasan is generally among the first to implement
new mobile connectivity protocols, and consequently among the pioneers who
successfully complete interoperability testing sessions with other contributors to
standards organizations, like JEDEC, MIPI Alliance and SD Association. Hence,
among IP vendors, Arasan is generally the first to offer HVP’s to fill the validation
gap. That’s how the Total IP Solution contributes to our customers’ achieving
their time to market objectives with connectivity that interoperates with peer
devices correctly.