category: Intelligent System Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

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

Development Tools Enabling The Internet of Things
By Frank Schirrmeister - 27 Feb, 2013 - Comments: 0

I'm at the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg this week. Yes, between Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and DVCon in San Jose, Calif., I chose Embedded World. Unfettered by unseasonally late snow and bad weather, it turns out this was the right decision. I have not attended this show for a couple of years and am pleased to find that the show has developed quite a bit. There are more than 8... » read more

It’s The Data, Stupid!
By Frank Schirrmeister - 30 Jan, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister January is prediction month! After writing my 10 year Look-Back on Technology last week, I attended an IDC briefing called “Riding the Momentum: IDC Software Predictions 2013.” IDC is looking at the IT world from four angles that they call four pillars: Cloud, Big Data/Analytics, Social Business and Mobility. In the opening presentation—called “In a Diverse Wo... » read more

Looking Back At 2012
By Frank Schirrmeister - 17 Dec, 2012 - Comments: 1

By Frank Schirrmeister This my last post in this Blog for this year and it is time to look back at the year and try to see what’s next. How fast time flies became clear in a funny way to me this morning when listening to the “Tagesschau” while showering – the 8pm news I grew up with back in Germany – courtesy of modern video Blog technology. Apparently the parking fines in inner citi... » read more

The Agony Of Choice
By Frank Schirrmeister - 28 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister In my last post on “The Complexity of System Development and Verification” I outlined five main use models for verification at four levels of scope, enabled by seven execution engines. So how exactly do users choose between the different execution engines to run hardware and software together before the actual chip is available? It is far from trivial. The seven engi... » read more

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