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Divided On System Partitioning
How close can we get to automated system optimization from a software function? The target keeps moving, but the tools keep becoming more capable.
Making Sure RISC-V Designs Work As Expected
Open-source growth predictions are impressive, but the verification process can be harder than with commercial ISAs.
Big Design, IP And End Market Shifts In 2020
A slew of new technologies and a focus on lower power and different tools and methodologies point to a year of strong growth, change and innovation.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling points to potential changes in the global supply chain in Chips, Business And The Coronavirus.
EDA Technology Editor Brian Bailey warns that when languages are defined with incomplete or inappropriate semantics, the price everyone pays is orders of magnitude greater than spending the time to get it right, in The Trouble With Semantics.
Mentor’s Elven Huang addresses the difficulties designers face in the verification and debugging of SRAM blocks in a SoC, in Balancing Flexibility And Quality In SRAM Verification.
Synopsys’ Ash Patel talks about the new challenges to parasitic extraction and closure that come with markets like 5G, biotechnology, AI, and automotive, in New Parasitic Extraction Requirements In Custom Design For The Next Wave Of SoCs.
Imagination’s Marc Canel observes that the FIDO Alliance is working to move beyond insecure passwords with biometric identifiers, in Authentication In The IoT Age.
OneSpin’s Tom Anderson describes a unified look at what formal, simulation, and acceleration/emulation contribute to verification, in Verification Planning And Management With Formal.
Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister imparts how emulation and prototyping complement each other during the verification process, in 2019 – The Year Of The “Dynamic Duo” Of Emulation And Prototyping.
Aldec’s Igor Gorokhov uses an embedded prototyping board to reduce system bring-up time and simplify customization efforts, in Evaluating NVMe SSD Multi-Gigabit Performance.
