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Blog Review: Sept. 4
By Ed Sperling - 04 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Cadence’s Brian Fuller looks at the opportunity for EDA in the cloud and where it’s most likely to gain traction. How about the PCB? Synopsys’ Mick Posner has moved beyond broad-based design ecosystems. He’s now reaching out to local neighborhoods with FPGA prototypes. Sounds like quality family time. Mentor’s Colin Walls concedes that all non-trivial software ... » read more

The Case For Extensible Processors
By Neil Hand - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Neil Hand In a previous post I talked about how intelligent subsystems are going to impact overall system design. Because many more design teams are going to be required to implement complex processing power into there subsystems, I thought it time to expand on that topic and talk a little about options available to add that intelligence. One size does not fit all The traditional approa... » read more

Software Impact Grows
By Ed Sperling - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling As the number of processors and processor cores increase in SoC, so does the amount of software. But unlike hardware, which grows linearly, software frequently grows exponentially. The great advantage of software is configurability—both before and after tapeout—yet it adds many more possible permutations and interactions that need to be worked out. And unlike the old PC m... » read more

Simple Concepts Can Lead To Big Improvements
By Tom De Schutter - 22 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter As I am just back from vacation, it is an ideal time to reflect on where we are with virtual prototyping and VDKs (Virtualizer Development Kits). For more than a year now we have been developing reference VDKs based on ARM’s Versatile Express board, and it has really made a difference in how we engage with customers. Although we always had demos, which were similar to t... » read more

Completing System Design Flows With Emulation
By Frank Schirrmeister - 21 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Frank Schirrmeister Earlier this week, I participated with Mike Gianfagna (Atrenta) and our own Jason Andrews in a webinar hosted by Gary Smith called, “ESL - Are You Ready?” One of the very interesting discussion topics was how hardware-assisted verification has become the missing element in complementing different execution engines to enable software development and verification in de... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 21
By Ed Sperling - 21 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Mentor’s Michael Ford recalls the worst meetings in the world—ones that involve materials in the manufacturing process. Unfortunately there were a lot of them, so they were more like working in a recurring nightmare. Paging Freddie Krueger. Synopsys’ Karen Bartleson talks with Angisys CEO Anupam Bakshi about why EDA companies need to collaborate, and what’s the risk ... » read more

Experts At The Table: Who Pays For Low Power?
By Ed Sperling - 26 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 1

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss the cost of low power with Fadi Gebara, research staff member for IBM’s Austin Research Lab; David Pan, associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas; Aveek Sarkar, vice president of product engineering and support at Apache Design; and Tim Whitfield, director ... » read more

Drafting For First Place
By Tom De Schutter - 25 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter I am a big fan of professional cycling events, and nothing can beat the Tour de France. Every year the best riders from around the world gather for what looks like an impossible task: This year they have to ride 3,404 kilometers (2,115 miles) in three weeks including five hill stages and six mountain stages. After completing that entire distance, all that separates the first... » read more

Raising The IP Abstraction Level
By Ed Sperling - 25 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling An increasing reliance on commercial and re-used IP and more emphasis placed on software development is adding even more pressure onto semiconductor design teams to figure out the benefits and limitations of myriad possible choices earlier in the design process. Design teams already are under pressure to meet increasingly tighter market deadlines, and it is stressing every pa... » read more

Experts At The Table: SoC Prototyping
By Ann Mutschler - 19 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler System-Level Design sat down to discuss SoC prototyping with Hillel Miller, pre-silicon verification/emulation manager at Freescale Semiconductor; Frank Schirrmeister, group director, product marketing, system development suite at Cadence; and Mick Posner, director of product marketing at Synopsys. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SLD: When it comes... » read more

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