Blog Review: Mar. 7

Synopsys' Amit Paunikar and Shaily Khare take a look at new features in LPDDR5, from improved data bandwidth and Deep Sleep Mode to WCK clock. Cadence's Paul McLellan dives into forward error correction, a technique for automatically correcting errors in transmitted network data, with a look at why it's important and how it works. In his latest embedded software video, Mentor's Colin Walls explains inlining C/C functions, how it may benefit code execution, and what the downsides may be. Rambus' Aharon Etengoff checks out NIST's Draft Report on International IoT Cybersecurity Standardization about potential risks of unsecured consumer IoT components to the wider network, plus looks at the security-as-as-service model. Ansys' Mike Bak dives into structural analysis of PCBs and how to assess their ability to survive vibratory load environments from model creation through to evaluating component integrity based on the results of random vibration analysis.