category: Design & Verification

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

When Is Robustness Verification Complete?
By Janusz Kitel - 19 Dec, 2019 - Comments: 0

Understandably, hardware designed for an aircraft, or indeed any safety critical application, must be robust. I also believe that all engineers wish to verify their designs as thoroughly as possible, anyway. However, there are limiting factors; most notably the high complexity of most designs. Since we are unable to discover and verify the design against all abnormal conditions, the main questi... » read more

Developing Robust Finite State Machines Code With Lint Tools
By Alex Gnusin - 26 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

As design size and complexity grows, the design verification effort grows even more. It takes significant amount of time to thoroughly verify complex control logic of a design, which is the key and the most critical component of design functionality. One of the most common design patterns in the control logic design are finite state machines. They could be designed in different styles, state an... » read more

HW/SW Co-Verification For Hybrid Systems
By Wojtek Lewandowski - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Heterogeneous SoC architectures such as Zynq have become very popular recently due to the combination of programmable logic (FPGA) and processing system (ARM) integrated into a single chip. Developing a design using such hybrid systems causes complexity in design verification stages. To help address this complexity, Aldec introduced support for QEMU for co-verification in our HES.Proto-AXI host... » read more

Meanwhile, 35 Years Later…
By Zibi Zalewski - 27 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

At this year’s Design Automation Conference, held on June 3, 4 and 5 in Las Vegas and about 10 miles away from our head office in Las Vegas, Nevada, we celebrated our 35th anniversary with a resounding reaffirmation of our raison d’etre: the provision of verification solutions for some of industry’s most pressing challenges. We had on display a variety of solutions – both hardware ... » read more

Of Aero Shows And Safety
By Janusz Kitel - 28 Mar, 2019 - Comments: 0

At the end of February, I attended the Aero Show in India - and what a show it was. So many exhibitors from around the world, including all main players from the commercial and military sides of the aerospace industry. Visitors could see everything required to build a modern aircraft: from small components like specialized ICs, cables and connectors up to big parts, such as the jet engines... » read more

Deep Learning Hardware: FPGA vs. GPU
By Farhad Fallahlalehzari - 20 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

FPGAs or GPUs, that is the question. Since the popularity of using machine learning algorithms to extract and process the information from raw data, it has been a race between FPGA and GPU vendors to offer a HW platform that runs computationally intensive machine learning algorithms fast and efficiently. As Deep Learning has driven most of the advanced machine learning applications, it is r... » read more

Giving Cars A Bird’s-Eye View
By Farhad Fallahlalehzari - 27 Sep, 2018 - Comments: 0

Will the world be a better place in which to live by having autonomous cars driving around us? Or would it be unsafe and scary? Maybe someone was asking such a question even when the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation was built in 1769 [1]! As a person who likes driving, I wouldn’t like to have a ‘fully’ autonomous car, but I would like to get some assistanc... » read more

Accessing Registers With UVM-RAL
By Sunil Sahoo - 23 Aug, 2018 - Comments: 0

As a digital design or verification engineer you know that certain features or configurations of the device can be achieved by programming some registers to set values. For example, a 32-bit register can have several fields within it and each field can represent a particular feature that can be configured. The device then reads that register and uses that information to change settings or modes... » read more

PCIe In High-Performance FPGAs
By Vatsal Choksi - 26 Jul, 2018 - Comments: 0

In today's world, when the entire computing industry is talking about high-performance and high-speed applications using FPGAs, what are the factors that can assure such performance and speed? The value and success of today’s high performance computing applications in the areas of DNA Sequencing, High Frequency Trading (HFT) and Encryption/Decryption are predicated upon how fast data can be t... » read more

SoC FPGAs And HW/SW Co-Simulation
By Farhad Fallahlalehzari - 28 Jun, 2018 - Comments: 0

Heterogeneous System on Chip (SoC) devices like the Xilinx Zynq 7000 and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC combine a high-performance processing system (PS) with state-of-the-art programmable logic (PL). This combination allows a system to be architected to provide an optimally balanced single-chip software/hardware solution. However, all too often, the integration between the PS and PL takes place late... » read more

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