tag: software

Tech Talk: Earlier Software
By Ed Sperling - 02 Nov, 2016 - Comments: 0

Malte Doerper, senior manager of product management at Synopsys, talks about the big "shift left" for software, where the problems crop up, and how to save as much as a year of development time with automation and better methodologies.   Related Stories Bridging Hardware And Software The need for concurrent hardware-software design and verification is increasing, but are engine... » read more

What Is Fuzzing?
By Synopsys - 26 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

Fuzzing is an excellent technique for locating vulnerabilities in software. The basic premise is to deliver intentionally malformed input to target software and detect failure. A complete fuzzer has three components. A poet creates the malformed inputs or test cases.A courier delivers test cases to the target software. Finally, an oracle detects target failures. Different fuzzing techniques ... » read more

Gaps In The Verification Flow
By Brian Bailey - 25 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the state of the functional verification flow with Stephen Bailey, director of emerging companies at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; [getperson id="11079" comment="Anupam Bakshi"], CEO of [getentity id="22168" e_name="Agnisys"]; [getperson id="11124" comment="Mike Bartley"], CEO of [getentity id="22868" e_name="Test and Verification... » read more

#54DAC: A New Beginning
By Michael MacNamara - 17 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

I’ve been attending DAC as an exhibitor since 1992, and serving on the executive committee since 2012. I am thrilled to serve as General Chair for the 54th iteration of this grand conference. (And no it’s not too early to think about DAC. The call for contributions is open now.) Through the years I have seen some big industry changes, most driven by the increasingly powerful tools and autom... » read more

Transforming Testing Through Automation
By Synopsys - 12 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

"Test your code as you write it.” That’s a common mantra heard in many development teams today. However, for too many, that practice remains a lofty goal as opposed to a business reality. They lack the appropriate metrics and processes to make and measure progress and often underestimate the effort required to manage the cultural change. In this paper you will learn how Coverity: Red... » read more

Executive Insight: Wally Rhines
By Ed Sperling - 06 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

[getperson id="11694" p_name="Wally Rhines"], chairman and CEO of [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"], sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about changes in automotive electronics, IoT security issues, and how this affects semiconductor design. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: In automotive, one of the big changes is that we are no longer dealing wit... » read more

The Real Differences Between HW And SW
By Brian Bailey - 03 Oct, 2016 - Comments: 0

How many times have we heard people say that hardware and software do not speak the same language? The two often have different terms for essentially the same thing. What hardware calls constrained random test is what software people call fuzzing. Another one recently caught my eye in a conversation with Jama Software, a Portland software company that has made a name for itself in requiremen... » read more

Development Testing For C# Applications
By Synopsys - 28 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

Static analysis shouldn’t be about finding loads of coding style or standard issues. It should be focused on finding the most critical defects. Although traditional byte code analysis solutions such as FxCop are useful, they can miss critical, crash causing defects - plus produce a large set of coding style issues, which can slow down the development team. Learn how the Coverity Development T... » read more

The Zen Of Processor Design
By Ed Sperling - 15 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss how to keep improving performance per watt, new packaging options, and the increasing focus on customization for specific tasks. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: As we get more into the IoT and we have to deal with more data, not to mention cars where da... » read more

Cars, Security, and HW/SW Co-Design
By Jeff Dorsch - 13 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

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

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