tag: ESL

Opening Salvo At DAC
By Brian Bailey - 02 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 0

As always, DAC starts with a view of the state of the industry from Gary Smith and this year, Smith's view was a little different from previous years. For DAC 51, Smith no longer spoke of ESL as being the key to the future. In fact, he conceded that he may have been off a few years or a couple of decades on that one, but in the end he was right. This year his main message seemed to be that k... » read more

Confessions Of An ESL-Aholic
By Frank Schirrmeister - 22 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

At DAC 1997 – 17 years ago – Gary Smith coined the term “Electronic System-Level” (ESL) design. Around the same time I entered EDA when becoming part of Cadence and became very involved in ESL. Things have changed over the last 17 years quite a bit. While some of the predictions did not come true, others definitely did. Over the last couple of years the tools to be counted as part of sy... » read more

Vista Virtual Prototyping
By Various Writers - 26 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 0

Vista Virtual Prototyping provides an early, abstract functional model of the hardware to software engineers even before the hardware design is implemented in RTL. It can run software on embedded processor models at speeds par with board support packages, providing sufficiently fast simulation models for OS and application software validation. The Vista Virtual Prototyping solution has two dist... » read more

A Different Kind Of Sales Job
By Ed Sperling - 30 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

For years EDA companies have been pitching the benefits of ESL tools and high-level modeling, and for just as many years chipmakers have been throwing that idea back at tools vendors saying it’s too expensive to retool. Talks between the two have waffled between polite bickering and contentious negotiations. Chipmakers have approached these “talks” from the stronger bargaining position... » read more

Plans Vs. Planning
By Jon McDonald - 20 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

The end of the year is a good time to look back at what’s happened over the past year, and look ahead to what might happen in the coming one. Two quotes that help my thought process when thinking about the might be coming, “Change is the law of life.” from Kennedy, and “Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable” from Eisenhower. From my perspective, 2013 has been a good year... » read more

Vista Virtual Prototyping
By Various Writers - 24 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

Vista Virtual Prototyping provides an early, abstract functional model of the hardware to software engineers even before the hardware design is implemented in RTL. It can run software on embedded processor models at speeds par with board support packages, providing sufficiently fast simulation models for OS and application software validation. The Vista Virtual Prototyping solution has two dist... » read more

The Rest Is History
By Jon McDonald - 26 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

I recently fielded some questions on the evolution of Electronic System Level design. The questions started me thinking about how ESL is being applied today and what effect some of the historical assumptions might be having on ESL’s perceived use cases. It’s interesting that we are at a point to consider historical assumptions about ESL. Looking it up, Wikipedia claims that the term ESL ... » read more

Simple Economics
By Jon McDonald - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald I was watching one of the MIT OpenCourseWare videos the other day. It was one of the lectures on Computer Science. I believe it was Prof. Robert Gallager who made a statement that really got me thinking: “Increasingly, system computational complexity has little impact on cost because of chip technology.” From a hardware perspective I initially had a bit of trouble with t... » read more

The Best Abstraction
By Jon McDonald - 28 Mar, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald The other day I was asked what would be the best level of abstraction to model at for system-level design. This is a question I get, in one form or another, far too often. It reminds me of an old quote attributed to Lincoln, slightly updated and applied to this subject: “One model can answer some of the questions all of the time, and all of the questions some of the time, but... » read more

Modeling Errors
By Ed Sperling - 28 Feb, 2013 - Comments: 0

Raising the abstraction level in increasingly large and complex design requires proxies. In IC world, we think of them in terms of higher abstractions, but the basic premise is that you can’t focus on ever detail without losing sight of the bigger picture, so we build models that can represent those details. Done well, these models are incredibly useful. They save time, make it easier to ... » read more

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