tag: emulation

Blog Review: Oct. 29
By Ed Sperling - 29 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Ansys' Bill Vandermark uncovers the top engineering articles for the week. Check out the tractor beam in Australia that can push and pull objects and Naim's soundbar that may act like a gateway drug to bankruptcy. It may sound counterintuitive, but ARM's Jakub Lamik draws a direct link between bandwidth consumption and power consumption and explains that's the case. Samsung's Farhad Tab... » read more

Legal Battlefield In Emulation
By Brian Bailey - 23 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 1

Given the rate of research and development within the EDA industry, you might expect it to be a highly litigious industry, but apart from theft claims, there have not been that many law suits brought to bear – except in the area of [getkc id="30" comment="emulation"]. Emulation has, since its early days in the early 1990s, always been a legal battlefield, and the hostilities continue to this ... » read more

When To Use Simulation, When To Use Emulation
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 22 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Should you emulate or simulate? In this brief historical review, Dr. Lauro Rizzatti compares the two and reveals when to use which and explains why only emulation can verify embedded SW in an SoC design. To read more, click here. » read more

High-Level Gaps Emerge
By Ann Mutschler - 15 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the attributes of a high-level, front-end design flow with Bernard Murphy, CTO at [getentity id="22026" e_name="Atrenta"]; Leah Clark, associate technical director for digital video technology at Broadcom; Phil Bishop, vice president of the system level design system & verification group at [getentity id="22032" e_name="Cadence"]; and Jon McDon... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Ed Sperling - 26 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Tools Synopsys rolled out a hybrid verification platform, which it said can shave months off design time. The platform acts like a bridge between emulation, FPGA prototyping, simulation, static and formal verification and debug. Mentor Graphics uncorked a new version of its embedded hypervisor, which includes better system configuration, debugging and hardware support. The hypervisor is aim... » read more

How To Cut Verification Costs For IoT
By Brian Bailey - 25 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Cost is one of the main factors limiting proliferation of the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"] (IoT), and when looking at the design and [getkc id="10" kc_name="Verification"] methodologies in place today, verification is a prime candidate for closer inspection. For today’s complex [getkc id="81" kc_name="SoCs"], the cost of verification has been rising faster than design and it h... » read more

Leveraging Virtual Prototypes For Hybrid Emulation
By Tom De Schutter - 25 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

As highlighted in many of my blog posts, virtual prototyping has really established itself as the key methodology to shift left software development by decoupling the dependency of software development from hardware availability. The success of the “Better Software. Faster!” book illustrates the wide spread interest in the methodology. The success of virtual prototypes also has led users... » read more

Extending Power Analysis To The Emulation of Complex SoCs
By Jim Kenney - 11 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Using hardware emulation to estimate SoC power consumption delivers significant value. Emulators are capable of long runs on large designs, making it practical to emulate an RTOS boot sequence or graphics processing of multiple frames. Estimating power consumption of these advanced functions executing across the complete SoC provides valuable insight into the chip’s power draw and its impact ... » read more

When To Virtualize, When To Stay In The Real World
By Frank Schirrmeister - 21 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Virtualization is all the craze these days. People have virtual personas on LinkedIn, Facebook and Match. I sent my daughter to a Minecraft camp at Stanford where she built virtual worlds while learning programming. Virtualization also plays an important role in chip development, especially when it comes to representing the system environment. There is, however, some crass misinformation out th... » read more

Making Software Better
By Ed Sperling - 07 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Gauging the energy efficiency of software is a difficult task. There are many types of software, from embedded code all the way up to software that controls various modes of operation to downloaded applications. Some software interacts with other software, while other software works independently. And some works better on one SoC configuration than another, or on one iteration of an operating s... » read more

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