tag: ESL

Tires That Talk
By Ed Sperling - 14 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

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What’s New And What Isn’t In ESL
By Jon McDonald - 27 Aug, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Jon McDonald Just because a problem can be solved doesn’t mean it has been solved. Last week I was on a panel at the ISLPED conference in San Francisco. This conference is focused on low power, and the panel addressed some of the things that are being done and some things needed for low power analysis exploration and trade-offs. While the panel was very interesting, one question that... » read more

How to Future-Proof A Hardware Designer
By Jon McDonald - 31 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

I’m at DAC this week, where there is a lot of interest and discussion on what’s going on in design and what’s going to happen to designers. One conversation with a university professor gave me a “eureka” moment. The professor had a student who really loved RTL design. The student asked him where he could get a job doing this, and the professor suggested the student move to India... » read more

Who’s In Control Now?
By Ed Sperling - 31 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Power is shifting across the design industry in multiple ways and sometimes across multiple continents, driven by complexity and cost pressures and entirely new forms of competition. On one side of the equation, foundries are dictating more of what goes on up front in the design cycle. Design for manufacturing is a prerequisite at 45nm and below, and they’re the ones dictatin... » read more

Experts At The Table: ESL And Low Power
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jul, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power Design sat down with Walter Ng, senior director of platform alliances at Chartered Semiconductor; Brani Buric, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Virage Logic; John Sanguinetti, CTO at Forte Design Systems and Andrea Kroll vice president of marketing and business development at JEDA Technologies. What follows are excerpts of that discussion. ... » read more

ESL…Is It What You Want Or What You Need?
By Jon McDonald - 25 Jun, 2009 - Comments: 0

Last week I was sitting in a meeting having an extended discussion on what information and benefits could be derived from an ESL transaction model of a system.  It reminded me of the words of those immortal philosophers, The Rolling Stones, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need”.  I believe this is a philosophy that ne... » read more

Is ESL Formal Verification An Oxymoron?
By Jon McDonald - 29 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” – Albert Einstein I’ve had a number of conversations recently trying to understand what verification means for ESL and higher level models. It seems that most of the people I talk to are looking for a guarantee, they want formal verification, a proof that the design is doing what it should... » read more

What If?
By Ed Sperling - 16 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

The latest terminology to permeate the ranks of systems engineers and the makers of automation tools is, ‘What If.’   On the face of it, this concept is a progression from the old matrix model, which provided a set of possible interactions and variables. What it adds, however, is an extra layer of dependencies and interdependencies, a concept that was developed largely in the software ... » read more

Experts At The Table: Platform-Based Design
By Ed Sperling - 16 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down with Simon Bloch, vice president and general manager of ESL/HDL Design and Synthesis at Mentor Graphics; Mike Gianfagna, vice president of marketing at Atrenta; and Jim Hogan, a private investor. What follows are excerpts of a lively, often contentious two-hour conversation.   SLD: What’s the starting point for designs in this world? Hogan: I... » read more

Experts At The Table: Platform-Based Design
By Ed Sperling - 09 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down with Simon Bloch, vice president and general manager of ESL/HDL Design and Synthesis at Mentor Graphics; Mike Gianfagna, vice president of marketing at Atrenta; and Jim Hogan, a private investor. What follows are excerpts of a lively, often contentious two-hour conversation. SLD: Let’s start out with a point of reference before we get going on ... » read more

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