category: Intelligent System Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Top 5 Trends For 2014
By Frank Schirrmeister - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

My daughter’s and my traditional yearly cookie baking party last weekend reminded me of two things: There is still no easy recipe for system design and verification and – of course – the year is almost over again. Ouch. Let’s look back at 2013 first. Earlier this year we held a System to Silicon Verification Summit in San Jose, with an interesting technical keynote by Brian Bailey an... » read more

The Hunt For The Next Application To Drive System-Level Design And Verification
By Frank Schirrmeister - 20 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

In recent years, most of my customer presentations highlighted some type of mobile device – system and system on chip (SoC) — to explain the challenges for system-level design and verification. But I also like to look into other application domains to understand how challenges may develop over time and to identify similarities and differences in challenges between application domains. Co... » read more

Verification 2.0: From Tool To Flow
By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Recently, Cadence held a System-to-Silicon Verification Summit at which companies like Broadcom, Zenverge, NVIDIA, and Ambarella shared their experiences and visions for verification. In one of the keynotes, Brian Bailey shared his vision of how verification would transition from tools to flows. Brian’s presentation was quite insightful. He started with a brief status of where we are curre... » read more

How Much Verification Can One Engineer Handle?
By Frank Schirrmeister - 25 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister When reviewing the agenda of our upcoming Verification Summit here in San Jose this Thursday, the question came to mind of who can actually execute the required complex verification tasks. Can they understand enough detail in hardware, software, and the system aspects to efficiently rid the design of bugs? The reality is that the task requires not one engineer who can do... » read more

Completing System Design Flows With Emulation
By Frank Schirrmeister - 21 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister Earlier this week, I participated with Mike Gianfagna (Atrenta) and our own Jason Andrews in a webinar hosted by Gary Smith called, “ESL - Are You Ready?” One of the very interesting discussion topics was how hardware-assisted verification has become the missing element in complementing different execution engines to enable software development and verification in de... » read more

What Really Matters: User Care-Abouts In Hardware-Assisted Verification
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister Sports analogies often work well and, most certainly, they do for electronics development. When again I ran across the VISA advertisement in which Dick Fosbury is featured with his win in the high-jump competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics, I had to smile as it reminded me of hardware-assisted verification (I know, I know…twisted, you might say). Just as Fosbury chan... » read more

The Rise Of The Subsystem And New IP Providers
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister From the perspective of system development in EDA, the customer landscape and its changes have always had a fascinating influence on our tools. NVIDIA’s recent announcement in a corporate blog post that they will be licensing the Kepler GPU architecture caused me to check again on the customer landscape for which we are enabling system development, for example, with ou... » read more

Software-Driven Electronic Design Automation
By Frank Schirrmeister - 21 May, 2013 - Comments: 1

As the EDA industry prepares to descend on Austin in less than two weeks for the 50th annual Design Automation Conference (DAC), I am wondering what this DAC will be about. It’s pretty simple. One of the key themes will be about “software-driven EDA,” a term I’d love to claim to have invented but am happy to attribute to Jim Ready of Ready Systems and Montavista fame – our chief techn... » read more

Subsystems And Reuse
By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister The last couple of weeks have been very busy with travel, customer meetings and presentations—DATE in Grenoble, CDNLive in San Jose and, most recently, EDPS in Monterey. Software enablement and IP sub-systems have been the key themes throughout these events, and during Gary Smith’s keynote at EDPS, I realized that subsystem reuse may be a significant step to solving ... » read more

Trying To Catch Up With Software Developers
By Frank Schirrmeister - 27 Mar, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister The electronic design automation (EDA) industry has now been trying for at least a decade and a half to catch up with software developers, for two main reasons. First, there are so many of them that it would be great to expand EDA into that domain. Second, semiconductor companies, i.e. the core customers to which the EDA industry sells, have had to add more and more soft... » read more

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