category: Intelligent System Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

The Top Five Trends in Verification to Watch for at DAC 2016
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 May, 2016 - Comments: 0

The Design Automation Conference in Austin is upon us, so it's time for my annual preview of what to look for. In my mind, five trends stand out and are clearly visible in the DAC program as well as in what we are presenting at our booth: Stronger ties between verification engines Software-driven verification with portable stimulus Metric-driven verification Application specificity ... » read more

Stories From The Village Called Hardware-Assisted Development
By Frank Schirrmeister - 28 Apr, 2016 - Comments: 0

They say it takes a village to raise children and, as a dad of an 11-year-old girl, I can relate. Similarly, for system development and hardware-assisted verification, the overall ecosystem of users, use models, and partners is equally important. The recent CDNLive Silicon Valley event is a great example. The SoC and Hardware/Software track that my team and I were hosting featured NVIDIA, Netro... » read more

How Do Design And Verification Change In The IoT Age?
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Where is the Internet of Things (IoT) on the hype curve? Are expectations too high, or is it really the next big thing? My recent trip to the Design Automation and Test Conference (DATE) in Dresden, Germany, did not give all the answers, but it definitely did shed some light for me on this topic. A very enthusiastic taxi driver took me back 25 years to the Nov. 9, 1989, the time when the Ber... » read more

Education And Communication
By Frank Schirrmeister - 25 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

With the System Development Suite introduced back in 2011, it is worthwhile to review how the adoption of the connected verification engines has progressed. It turns out that only part of the issues to be solved are purely technical. Communication across different technology areas is key, and with that, education of a new breed of engineer may become a key issue going forward. As a son of a ... » read more

Enablement For A Decade Of Innovation
By Frank Schirrmeister - 28 Jan, 2016 - Comments: 0

As I do every January, I am looking back 5, 10, and 15 years to see what predictions did and did not turn out to be right, and how that relates to design technologies enabling those developments. Looking back five years reveals just how key system-development technologies were for what IEEE dubbed the “Top 11 Technologies of the Decade”. Looking back 10 years shows how they enabled communic... » read more

Outlook 2016 – The year of Horizontal and Vertical Flow Integration
By Frank Schirrmeister - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

As 2015 comes to an end rapidly, the key question becomes what the next year will bring. Last year around this time, in my blog “The Next Big Shift In Verification”, I talked about software-driven verification as the next era of verification that follows the eras of directed testing and High-level Verification Language (HVL) driven verification. I also had referred to our System Development... » read more

Innovating Virtualization In Emulation
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

Last week we officially introduced our next-generation emulator. We used the words “datacenter” and “virtualization” a lot, and it is worthwhile to underline the significance of what just happened in emulation. The new concepts are just as key to emulation as was the invention of virtual memory and memory management units to processors and software development. The concept of virtual... » read more

Requirements For Datacenter-Ready Emulation
By Frank Schirrmeister - 29 Oct, 2015 - Comments: 0

It’s time to look at what the latest trends in emulation are and to review some of the key requirements to make it datacenter-ready. Specifically, I will look at virtualization of external interfaces as well as emulation throughput, specifically the allocation of jobs into emulators. One overarching trend in verification lies in the connection of the engines in what Jim Hogan has dubbed t... » read more

The Next Level Of Abstraction For System Design
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 1

Recently there have been a lot of discussions again about the next level of design abstraction for chip design. Are we there yet? Will we ever get there? Is it SystemC? UML/SysML perhaps? I am taking the approach of simply claiming victory: Over the last 20 years we have moved up beyond RTL in various areas—just in a fragmented way. However, the human limitations on our capacity for processin... » read more

Why Implementation Matters To System Design And Software
By Frank Schirrmeister - 27 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

There has been quite some discussion in the recent past how well abstraction really works in enabling system design and verification. As I admitted in “Confessions of an ESL-Aholic” a while back, I have revised my view significantly over the years. While thinking originally of abstraction more as an panacea, it turns out that important decisions and analyses, such as for power and performan... » read more

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