tag: RTL

Netlist Decompilation Workflow for Recovered Design Verification, Validation, and Assurance
By Technical Paper Link - 12 Nov, 2021 - Comments: 0

Abstract: "Over the last few decades, the cost and difficulty of producing integrated circuits at ever shrinking node sizes has vastly increased, resulting in the manufacturing sector moving overseas. Using offshore foundries for chip fabrication, however, introduces new vulnerabilities into the design flow since there is little to no observability into the manufacturing process. At the same ... » read more

What’s Next For Emulation
By Brian Bailey - 28 Oct, 2021 - Comments: 1

Emulation is now the cornerstone of verification for advanced chip designs, but how emulation will evolve to meet future demands involving increasingly dense, complex, and heterogeneous architectures isn't entirely clear. EDA companies have been investing heavily in emulation, increasing capacity, boosting performance, and adding new capabilities. Now the big question is how else they can le... » read more

High-Level Synthesis For RISC-V
By Brian Bailey - 28 Oct, 2021 - Comments: 2

High-quality RISC-V implementations are becoming more numerous, but it is the extensibility of the architecture that is driving a lot of design activity. The challenge is designing and implementing custom processors without having to re-implement them every time at the register transfer level (RTL). There are two types of high-level synthesis (HLS) that need to be considered. The first is ge... » read more

Introducing mPower
By Siemens EDA - 13 Oct, 2021 - Comments: 0

Power integrity analysis evaluates circuits to determine if they will provide their designed/intended performance and reliability as implemented. Designers must be able to verify analog and digital power integrity from the RTL/gate-level through die-level integrations up to the package and board system-level. The mPower toolset is an innovative power integrity verification solution that brings ... » read more

RTL Architect: Parallel RTL Exploration With Unparalleled Accuracy
By Synopsys - 25 Aug, 2021 - Comments: 0

Increasing chip complexity and restrictive advanced node rules have made it harder for implementation tools to achieve PPA targets and node entitlements via last-mile optimizations. RTL Architect enables designers to "shift-left" and predict the implementation impact of their RTL. RTL designers, SoC integrators, and IP developers have embraced this fast, predictive technology to give them new i... » read more

Working With RISC-V
By Ed Sperling - 17 Aug, 2021 - Comments: 0

RISC-V is coming on strong, but working with this open-source processor core isn't as simple as plugging in a commercial piece of IP. Zdenek Prikryl, CTO at Codasip, talks about utilizing hypervisors and open source tools and extensions to the RISC-V instruction set architecture, where design teams can run into problems, what will change as the architecture becomes more mature, the difference b... » read more

Parallel RTL Exploration With Unparalleled Accuracy
By Synopsys - 28 Jul, 2021 - Comments: 0

Increasing chip complexity and restrictive advanced node rules have made it harder for implementation tools to achieve PPA targets and node entitlements via last-mile optimizations. RTL Architect enables designers to "shift-left" and predict the implementation impact of their RTL. RTL designers, SoC integrators, and IP developers have embraced this fast, predictive technology to give them new i... » read more

Lower Power Chips: What To Watch Out For
By Ann Mutschler - 08 Jul, 2021 - Comments: 0

Low-power design in advanced nodes and advanced packaging is becoming a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary challenge, where a long list of issues need to be solved both individually and in the context of other issues. With each new leading-edge process node, and with increasingly dense packaging, the potential for problematic interactions is growing. That, in turn, can lead to poor yield, cos... » read more

Scaling Simulation
By Brian Bailey - 27 May, 2021 - Comments: 1

Without functional simulation the semiconductor industry would not be where it is today, but some people in the industry contend it hasn't received the attention and research it deserves, causing a stagnation in performance. Others disagree, noting that design sizes have increased by orders of magnitude while design times have shrunk, pointing to simulation remaining a suitable tool for the job... » read more

Standards, Open Source, and Tools
By Brian Bailey - 10 May, 2021 - Comments: 1

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering discussed what open source verification means today and what it should evolve into with Jean-Marie Brunet, senior director for the Emulation Division at Siemens EDA; Ashish Darbari, CEO of Axiomise; Simon Davidmann, CEO of Imperas Software; Serge Leef, program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA; Tao Liu, staff hardware engineer... » read more

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