Slow Adoption for ESL


By Brian Fuller It’s been more than a decade since electronic system level (ESL) abstraction started to gain traction in EDA. It’s been more than a few years since the industry began to plan for the day when the benefits of embracing C-language approaches to design description and validation would find designers churning out massively complex and profitable designs while sitting in lawn ch... » read more

Mind The Gap


By Ed Sperling Throughout system-level design there are gaps. High-level modeling doesn’t connect directly to RTL code. Synthesis and high-level synthesis remain worlds apart. There are even gaps in the expertise, from the people who handcraft RTL to those who take it for granted. Some of these gaps will get closed over time. Others will never be closed. In same cases it doesn’t matter.... » read more

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