To address the growing demand for more cybersecurity in automotive ECUs, Mentor a Siemens business, has partnered with Sectigo the industry’s largest certificate authority. The partnership combines the Capital VSTAR product with the Sectigo’s Embedded Firewall for Automotive. The goal is to provide state-of-the-art productization and security of the Mentor AUTOSAR offering. Already, the partnership shows potential! …A global, tier-one supplier will be using our Sectigo-enabled Capital VSTAR for an upcoming production. More details about the Mentor/Sectigo offering can be found here. Just-ann ..read more

2018 is almost over, and that means CES 2019 is just around the corner!  In the recent years, the Consumer Electronic Show has morphed from an event focused primarily on consumer electronics to one that is also increasingly important to the automotive market. This change is actually not that surprising, given how much more “consumer electronic” like the modern car is becoming. Just like a consumer device, the modern car is (and will continue more so) a smart, network-connected, voice-interactive, software enabled equipment. It is no wonder that automotive technology takes a center stage at the ..read more

When you look back at the history of computing, High Performance Computing (HPC) and Embedded Software Development (ESD – also called the “edge”) have led distinctly different lives. While both disciplines have been around for a long time, they have had very different goals, development methodologies, and programming considerations. That separation is about to end. HPC applications such as Machine Learning and Computer Vision provide incredible value to the embedded world, enabling possibilities ranging from the ultra-complex such as automatically driving your car, to the mundane, which might ..read more

“Any other questions?” asked my optometrist. “Yes. We live in the 21st century. My prescription corrects to better than 20/20, but can I get some upgrades? How do I get the same visual acuity as an eagle looking for a mouse from high above a grassy field?” “Your eyes and a bird’s eyes are not so different. The difference is in the signal processing in the brain. Birds must clearly identify objects from long distances to hunt prey. Humans didn’t develop that high degree of long distance visual acuity because it wasn’t necessary for survival. To get bird-level vision upgrades, you don’t need to ..read more

In this blog we’ll discuss the history of the OpenACC GCC implementation and its latest enhancements. You’ll also gain insight into a recent Mentor project to improve the performance of codes compiled with GCC’s OpenACC support. A scalar optimizing compiler has a really good day when it gets an optimization that boosts performance by 5%. Scalar architectures have (relatively) limited opportunities for optimization, and scalar optimizing compilers have decades of theory and implementation effort supporting them. The landscape is different for compilers targeting parallel and vector hardware (of ..read more

This article originally appeared on Semiconductor Engineering: A New Approach To A Fragmented Industrial IoT By now, we’ve all seen or experienced the transformational change the Internet of Things (IoT) has had in our daily lives. The emerging area of industrial automation, often referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industrie 4.0, has also quickly transformed itself. Suddenly we have thousands, even millions of devices, connected to the infinite potential of the IIoT infrastructure, and the promise of what cloud computing might bring. Today everything in the IIoT world ..read more

2017 was another great year for sourcing technical papers on embedded systems topics so I’ve compiled the list of the most popular white papers from 2017. Although security was a prevalent theme, IoT and Industrial IoT (IIoT) were also extremely high topics of interest for our readers’. Safety, medical, heterogeneous devices, and autonomous driving rounded out the top 10…actually the top 11 since we had a tie with spot #9. #1 Linux Security Primer: SELinux and SMACK Frameworks #2 Internet of things (IoT) design considerations for embedded connected devices #3 Building Functional Safety and S ..read more

This is the second blog of a 2-part series. See part 1 here. In my previous blog, I briefly reflected upon the challenges faced by today’s automakers, especially resulting from a lack of meeting growing consumer expectations. In addition, new regulatory requirements and a desire to align with the broader industry trends are creating further headwinds for car makers. In this blog, let’s take a quick look at some of the innovative technology-based solutions available today to tackle both legacy and newer automotive NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) and audio related issues. The NVH challenges ..read more

2017 has flown by and it’s fun to look back on what the embedded design community deemed most interesting in our blogs. This year we found that the most read blog was about the announced support for the IA16. We posted the blog on April 1st to seem like a joke while being very serious about the support for the platform, recognizing the needed long-term maintenance for platforms and the continued embedded development on older platforms. Our other top read blogs spanned automotive, IoT, industrial, security, and a broad selection of embedded coding tips and techniques. As we look towards 2018, w ..read more

The automotive industry is moving at a rapid pace – partly evolving to stay relevant, and partly reacting to the bigger disruptions taking place around it. As 2017 comes to an end, it is a good time to take stock of some of the notable announcements in the industry, especially as it relates to car audio/infotainment technology. To start off, let’s briefly review the results of the 2017 Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) conducted by J.D. Power. While on one hand car makers continue to invest in R&D to enable enhanced in-cabin experiences, on the other hand, it looks like some of the notorio ..read more