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  • Is Your Memory Design Correct and Reliable?

    Learn how quickly and easily you can run a comprehensive memory test and uncover design and reliability issues. In this video, a memory failure is…

  • Embedded Design Verification Best Practices Short Video

    Watch this short video on Embedded Design Verification Best Practices and learn how to verify embedded designs for correctness and reliability utilizing a NEW approach…

  • Is Agile Invading Embedded?

    Is Agile Invading Embedded?

    It’s widely accepted that embedded programmers don’t use agile programming methodologies. Hard deadlines mean hard commitments and none of this wishy-washy, hippie-talk, “It’ll be done…

  • Troubleshooting and Fast Fault Isolation with VTOS

    Troubleshooting and quickly isolating faults is of tremendous value for reducing the time to redesign or repair failing boards. This process can cost a company…

  • A Platform for Reducing Verification Time and Improving Reliability of Embedded System Hardware

    In this whitepaper the author reviews how leveraging VTOS during the prototype phase can assist engineers in overcoming the challenges design complexity exerts on product…

  • Memory Testing 101 – Avoid the Train Wreck

    Memory is fundamental to the “sanity” of an embedded system. Inadequate memory testing is posing critical challenges to designers and indirectly manifesting considerable consequences at…

  • Kind Of A Big Deal

    Kind Of A Big Deal

    Let’s just start by saying that this is really a big deal. I could come up with a lot of impressive numbers and comparisons to…

  • Customer Private Label Program

    Customers have prototyped their products utilizing Microsemi FPGA & cSoCs and then quickly went to production on the same platform. This ensures design consistency and…

  • I Can Has Roadmap?

    I Can Has Roadmap?

    It’s a fine marketing line: pick a strong, simple message and reinforce it without smashing it into your prospect’s face. You want to direct someone’s…

  • Revitalizing the Chip Startup Environment

    Revitalizing the Chip Startup Environment

    One of today’s biggest Silicon Valley gripes is the evaporation of venture capital (VC) funding for chip startups. Since the dotcom bust, consumer application-driven silicon…