Krzysztof Szczur

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Krzysztof Szczur is the hardware verification products manager at Aldec.

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Connecting Emulated Designs To Real PCIe Devices

By Krzysztof Szczur - 28 May, 2020 - Comments: 0

These days verification teams no longer question whether hardware assisted verification should be used in their projects. Rather, they ask at which stage they should start using it. Contemporary System-on-Chip (SoC) designs are already sufficiently complex to make HDL simulation a bottleneck during verification, without even mentioning hardware-software co-verification or firmware and softwa... » read more

Using FPGAs For Emulation

By Krzysztof Szczur - 30 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 0

For many years, emulators were available only to verification teams working on the largest projects in companies with deep enough pockets. Due to size rather than capabilities they were called “Big Box” emulators and typically were used in order to recover some of the time lost on RTL simulation. Meanwhile, FPGA technology has been available long enough to mature to the point where FPGA bas... » read more

Cutting CapEx, Not Capacity

By Krzysztof Szczur - 29 Jun, 2017 - Comments: 0

‘The cloud’ has been an industry buzz word for some time now, and while the initial focus was on data storage and sharing - and spawned the likes of Dropbox – ‘cloud computing’ is currently the latest trend. For instance, Amazon’s cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), gives users access to servers and a range of applications. Storage is available as before but so too now are... » read more

Software Driven Test Of FPGA Prototype

By Krzysztof Szczur - 27 Apr, 2017 - Comments: 0

Most everyone would agree how important FPGA prototyping is to test and validate an IP, sub-system, or a complete SoC design. Before the design is taped-out it can be validated at speeds near real operating conditions with physical peripherals and devices connected to it instead of simulation models. At the same time, these designs are not purely hardware, but these days incorporate a significa... » read more

To Emulate Or Prototype?

By Krzysztof Szczur - 28 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

FPGA Prototyping is more challenging than emulation. Yet for the time invested in prototype setup, developers are rewarded with a validation platform that is capable of running orders of magnitude faster than emulation. Emulation also has benefits that appeal especially to design verification engineers. Aside from the completely automated compilation and setup flow, it offers robust debugg... » read more