tag: hardware/software co-design

Verifying A RISC-V Processor
By Ed Sperling - 17 Oct, 2023 - Comments: 0

Verifying an SoC is very different than verifying a processor due to the huge state space in the processor. In addition to the tools needed for an SoC, additional tools are required for a step and compare environment. Larry Lapides, vice president at Imperas, talks about the need to verify asynchronous events like interrupts, how to compare a reference model to RTL, and the need for both hardwa... » read more

Software-Hardware Co-Design Becomes Real
By Brian Bailey - 27 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 1

For the past 20 years, the industry has sought to deploy hardware/software co-design concepts. While it is making progress, software/hardware co-design appears to have a much brighter future. In order to understand the distinction between the two approaches, it is important to define some of the basics. Hardware/software co-design is essentially a bottom-up process, where hardware is deve... » read more

SoC Co-Emulation Using Zynq Boards
By Michelle Mata - 27 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 0

Have you ever worked on a group project where you had to combine your work with that of a colleague of a different engineering discipline but the absence of an efficient means of doing so affected the project’s overall outcome? Well, for software and hardware engineers developing an SoC, the merging of their respective engineering efforts for verification purposes is a big challenge. Early... » read more

Building Your First Chip For Artificial Intelligence? Read This First
By Ron Lowman - 13 Jun, 2019 - Comments: 0

As artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities enter new markets, the IP selected for integration provides the critical components of the AI SoC. But beyond the IP, designers are finding a clear advantage in leveraging AI expertise, services, and tools to ensure the design is delivered on time, with a high level of quality and value to the end customer for new and innovative applications. Over... » read more

Will Top-Down Hardware/Software Co-Design Ever Happen?
By Frank Schirrmeister - 31 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Hardware/software co-design has been talked about, and predicted to be a problem, for at least two decades now. Why has the hardware/software development world not come to an end? In 1999, Wilf Corrigan—LSI Logic’s CEO at the time—said that the most pressing need for new EDA tools was a better methodology that would “allow software developers to begin software verification more near the... » read more

Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs (Part 1)
By Brian Bailey - 27 Mar, 2017 - Comments: 3

While it has been possible to pair a CPU and FPGA for quite some time, two things have changed recently. First, the industry has reduced the latency of the connection between them and second, we now appear to have the killer app for this combination. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss these changes and the state of the tool chain to support this combination, with Kent Orthner, system... » read more

Cars, Security, And HW-SW Co-Design
By Jeff Dorsch - 07 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss parallel hardware/software design with Johannes Stahl, director of product marketing, prototyping and FPGA, [getentity id="22035" e_name="Synopsys"]; [getperson id="11411" comment="Bill Neifert"], director of models technology, [getentity id="22186" comment="ARM"]; Hemant Kumar, director of ASIC design, Nvidia; and Scott Constable, senior member of ... » read more

The Power Of Software
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

There is no argument about the increasing importance of software in system designs today, given the intimate and integral role it plays in directing the very hardware it is co-designed with. There is also a very good case for certain kinds of software that lend themselves more to certain types of processors. This, of course, depends on what is meant by the type of processor, asserted Coli... » read more

Are Models Holding Back New Methodologies?
By Brian Bailey - 30 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the state of the industry for [getkc id="101" kc_name="modeling"] at abstractions above [getkc id="49" kc_name="RTL"], a factor which has delayed adoption of [getkc id="104" kn_name="virtual prototypes"] and the proliferation of system-level design and hardware/software codesign. Taking part in the discussion were Frank Schirrmeister, group director... » read more

Mythbusting: Co-Design
By Ed Sperling - 28 Feb, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler It turns out that while there needs to be understanding between hardware and software engineers, the people doing the programming don’t actually want or need to interact. There is not, nor probably ever will be, one single team with hardware and software engineers happily working together on a project. But it’s not a total disconnect. There are a number o... » read more

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