category: System-Level Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Math And Electronic Design Automation
By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

Even though our teenage children may not show it the proper appreciation (yet), math is often referred to as the "universal language." And it is, even in EDA. Whenever I’m asked what the heck I do in my day job, I often fall back on analogies—a lot of them refer to building houses. For the geekier ones among us, I have even invoked The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Slartibartfast to ex... » read more

The Debug Problem…
By Hagai Arbel - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 1

While semiconductor verification techniques have evolved considerably over the last 25 years, the debug of design problems found during verification has barely changed. New algorithms including machine learning, visualization approaches, and problem-solving ideas allow a different approach to debugging that saves up to an order of magnitude in debug time. Since the inception of Hardware Desc... » read more

The Hidden Costs of Open Source
By Roddy Urquhart - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

It is often implied that if you use an open source processor core there are no costs associated with using it. Of course, the RTL may be free of a license fee and royalties and it might be possible to access a free of charge toolchain for RISC-V, but there are plenty of hidden costs associated with using the core in a real integrated circuit design. If you are using the core in a product... » read more

Practical Processor Verification
By Brian Bailey - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

Custom processors are making a resurgence, spurred on by the early success of the RISC-V ISA and the ecosystem that is rapidly building around it. But this shift is amid questions about whether processor verification has become a lost art. Years ago custom processors were common. But as the market consolidated around a handful of companies, so did the tools and expertise needed to develop th... » read more

Access To Verification Knowledge While Remote Working
By Rob van Blommestein - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

As someone who is used to working from home, the recent global events haven’t had as much of an impact on my ability to keep productive. Our team at OneSpin is very adept with remote-working relationships as many of us reside all over the world. Having said this, we recognize that not everyone or every company shares in this situation. Working from home can create specific challenges when ... » read more

Connectivity Key To Growing MCU Market
By Gerry Conlon - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an MCU without connectivity, must be in want of a Wi-Fi.” A picture paints a thousand words and for ambitious companies with microcontroller unit (MCU) technology, the picture below is very clear – market growth in IoT-oriented connected devices offers great opportunities. In a slow-growing market, each new design win requires the removal... » read more

Using Processor Trace At The System Level
By Ann Mutschler - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

The race to process more data faster using less power is creating a series of debug challenges at the system level, where developers need to be able to trace interactions across multiple and often heterogeneous processing elements that may function independently of each other. In general, trace is a hardware debug feature that allows the run-time behavior of IP to be monitored. More specific... » read more

Developing 4K Video Projects With FPGAs
By Farhad Fallahlalehzari - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

Achieving higher resolution is a never-ending race for camera, TV and display manufacturers. After the emergence of 4K ultra high definition (Ultra HD) imaging in the market, it became the main standard for today’s multimedia products. 4K Ultra HD brings us bigger screens which give an immersive feeling. With this standard, the pixilation problem was solved in the big screens. 4K consumers ar... » read more

Re-Imagining The GPU
By SE Staff - 23 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

John Rayfield, CTO at Imagination Technologies, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about RISC-V, AI, and computing architectures. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: What your plans are for RISC-V? Rayfield: We're actively finalizing the integration of RISC-V cores into future-generation GPUs. That work has been going on for several months. Moving forward, we'... » read more

Porting Vivado HLS Designs To Catapult HLS Platform
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 22 Apr, 2020 - Comments: 0

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) offers significant benefits when developing algorithms and intellectual property (IP) blocks for implementation in digital logic solutions such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). FPGA vendors offer HLS tools and using those increases flexibility and productivity over traditional hardware description language ... » read more

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