Blog Review: March 10 Siemens EDA’s Harry Foster checks out how the maturity of verification processes impact bug escapes in FPGA designs and whether safety critical development processes prevent bugs from escaping to silicon. Synopsys’ Dennis Kengo Oka examines the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in automotive keyless entry systems and how security researchers hacked the Tesla Model X key fob. Cadence’s Paul McLellan explains the development of the Open Access layout database standard and recent updates to modernize it, including improved capacity, more constraints, and cloud-readiness. Arm’s Vladimir Marchenko explores the Arm runtime system for Functional Safety, a safety-certified set of software components for embedded development, and how it enables process isolation to execute both critical and uncritical functionalities on a single microcontroller core.