category: Intelligent System Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Verification In The Era Of Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Nov, 2019 - Comments: 0

The last couple of weeks have been busy with me participating on three panels that dealt with AI and machine learning in the contexts of automotive and aero/defense, in San Jose, Berlin and Detroit. The common theme? Data is indeed the new oil, and it messes with traditional value creation in electronics. Also, requirements for system design and verification are changing and there are completel... » read more

Does System Design Still Need Abstraction?
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

About 15 years ago, the assumption in the EDA industry was that system design would be inevitable. The transition from gate-level design to a new entry point at the register transfer level (RTL) seemed complete with logic synthesis becoming well-adopted. The next step seemed to be so obvious at the time: High-level synthesis (HLS) and transaction-based development beyond RTL—also taking into ... » read more

Toward A Lingua Franca For Intelligent System Design
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 1

As the EDA industry is moving up further and further towards the intelligent design of full systems, this year’s Forum on Design Languages (FDL) offered a great update on the status quo with regard to where languages fit into this transition. It looks like the next step will not be one universal language as previously targeted back when there was a flurry of introductions of new programming m... » read more

Verification Requirements For 5G To Enable A Perfect Storm Of New Applications
By Frank Schirrmeister - 25 Jul, 2019 - Comments: 0

In my role as product management lead, to understand drivers for verification requirements and semiconductor markets I often exchange thoughts with customers what they think the next “killer app” would be. Ten years back, the drivers seemed pretty clear and segmented on a small number of applications, but the outlook today in 2019 is much more diverse. 5G networking seems to be a binding el... » read more

Intelligent System Design—Why The Future Does Need Us!
By Frank Schirrmeister - 27 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

The month of June 2019 was very inspiring. At the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Las Vegas, Cadence launched the next phase of our system-level strategy, dubbed “Intelligent System Design.” Later in the month I got to meet some real-life astronauts at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget—where we exhibited this year for the first time. All of this made me think about the future. Coinci... » read more

The Changing Landscape of Hardware-Based Verification And Software Development
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 May, 2019 - Comments: 0

As the EDA is gearing up for its biggest industry event, the Design Automation Conference (DAC), this year in Las Vegas, it is interesting to observe what is going on in hardware-based development of emulation and prototyping. The trends I had outlined after last DAC in 2018—system design, cloud, and machine learning—have only grown stronger and are causing changes in the development landsc... » read more

CDNLive 2019: The Verification Ecosystem Is Growing Stronger And Stronger
By Frank Schirrmeister - 25 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

Ecosystems are not only fascinating when it comes to processors like Arm, MIPS, x86, and RISC-V (as I have written before) or for semiconductor technologies like TSMC, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and Samsung; they are key for success in verification as well. CDNLive Silicon Valley was, again, a great example of the verification ecosystem in action. It showcased the different engines verification tools run... » read more

Digital Twins For Hardware/Software Co-Development
By Frank Schirrmeister - 28 Mar, 2019 - Comments: 0

These days it seems like we could play business bingo when watching presentations at conferences, checking off the most keywords mentioned. Hitting the terms AI, ML, IoT, 5G, and edge computing all together almost guarantees your presentation to be a hit. In recent years, the term “digital twin” has gotten a lot of attention. Recent discussions with Brian Bailey and a paper I wrote for GOMA... » read more

Hot Technologies In Cold Weather
By Frank Schirrmeister - 28 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

It is a busy week for verification and software development. DVCon in San Jose; Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany; and Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain are all happening at the same time. I ended up covering embedded software in Germany (as I also had a paper on “Shift Left” here). At chilly minus 1° Celsius in the morning, the technologies had to be pretty hot to warm me... » read more

Will Top-Down Hardware/Software Co-Design Ever Happen?
By Frank Schirrmeister - 31 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Hardware/software co-design has been talked about, and predicted to be a problem, for at least two decades now. Why has the hardware/software development world not come to an end? In 1999, Wilf Corrigan—LSI Logic’s CEO at the time—said that the most pressing need for new EDA tools was a better methodology that would “allow software developers to begin software verification more near the... » read more

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