Get More Reliable Automotive ICs with a Shift Left Design Approach
By Jonathan Muirhead, Siemens EDA
EETimes | May 27, 2025
As the automotive industry races towards a future of connected, autonomous, and electrified vehicles, the complexity of integrated circuits (ICs) powering these innovations is reaching extraordinary levels. Automotive ICs are incorporating an increasing diverse mix of custom and third-party intellectual property (IP), each with unique performance requirements that must be meticulously verified to ensure flawless functionality and reliability.
Limitations of traditional verification methods
Traditional verification methods are increasingly struggling to keep pace with this rising complexity, creating multiple bottlenecks in the design process. These conventional approaches, primarily reliant on manual checking and complex custom design rule checks (DRCs), pull layout verification later in the design cycle when changes are more costly and time-consuming.
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