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Outsourcing Creeps Down Into Systems
By Ed Sperling - 17 Dec, 2008 - Comments: 0

Offshoring started out as a less-expensive way of developing enterprise applications, but outsourced software development is beginning to move much deeper into the system-level design world. So far, development has evolved from just productivity applications to embedded software. Even large-scale system design is being outsourced. The next step is to outsource pieces of system-level designs, s... » read more

Can SaaS Really Make Chip Design Easier?
By Cheryl Ajluni - 17 Dec, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni Software as a Service (SaaS) is not a technology. It is a software deployment business model where an application is hosted as a service that is provided to customers across the Internet. Thanks to success stories from companies like Google, Salesforce.com, WebEx, and TurboTax, among others, this business model has become quite popular and is now even being looked at by some E... » read more

SOI Goes Mainstream
By Ed Sperling - 20 Nov, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The crossover for system on insulator (SOI) versus bulk CMOS was supposed to happen at the 22nm, but that was before software developers ran into problems programming multicore chips. For years, SOI was considered the high-performance cousin of CMOS—more expensive, more difficult to manufacture and unnecessary for most applications. It is the heart of the Cell processor, ... » read more

Better Ways to Connect IP
By Ed Sperling - 20 Nov, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Re-usable intellectual property may sound great on paper, but actually getting pieces to be as interchangeable as Lego parts and automatically configuring them to work in a system on a chip requires more than technology. It requires a leap of faith on the part of chip engineers, and that doesn’t happen overnight. The first step toward providing the tools was creation of the ... » read more

Special Report: Semiconductor Road Map Survey
By Ed Sperling - 06 Nov, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The upcoming semiconductor industry road map, which sets up the industry’s strategy and identifies trends for the next 15 years, is filled with three very interesting shifts and gaps. The road map, which will be formally unveiled next month, consists of findings gleaned from all the top chip companies. Juan-Antonio Carballo, a partner at IBM Venture Capital Group who spea... » read more

OVM vs. VMM: What’s Next?
By Ed Sperling - 23 Oct, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling The lines are drawn. On one side stand Mentor Graphics and Cadence. On the other are Synopsys and ARM. And caught in the middle are verification engineers, with a preference for one or the other and often in mixed verification teams. The battle for dominance between the Verification Methodology Language (VMM) and the Open Verification Methodology (Open Verification Methodology)... » read more

Things You Never Knew About System Verilog
By Ed Sperling - 23 Oct, 2008 - Comments: 0

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its usefulness in designing and verifying new chips is well known among those who work with it. The only problem is that many engineers still don’t know how to use more than a fraction of its capabilities�... » read more

Multicore Programming: The Next Frontier?
By Ed Sperling - 22 Oct, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling From a distance it looks like a game of hot potato. But this version is played by hardware and software engineers, who normally don’t have much to do with each other. The hardware engineers say you can’t get any more performance out of a single core on a chip without cooking it, so they’ve added more cores and tossed the problem over the wall to the software e... » read more

Quality time?
By Ed Sperling - 08 Oct, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss the future of verification with Olivier Haller, design verification team leader for STMicroelectronics’ functional verification group; Hillel Miller, functional design and verification tools and methodology manager at Freescale; Kelly Larson, design verification engineering manager at MediaTek Wireless; Adnan Hamid, CEO of Breker, and ... » read more

Cross-Talking with TLM 2.0
By Ed Sperling - 16 Sep, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling It’s almost like flying over the Great Plains of the United States. On the ground it’s hard to see above the corn stalks, but in an airplane you can see the entire horizon even if you can’t see those stalks anymore. The analogy is similar to where most of the major players in chip design say the engineering for systems on chips needs to go. With millions more gates avai... » read more

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