tag: software

Better Ways to Connect IP
By Ed Sperling - 20 Nov, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Re-usable intellectual property may sound great on paper, but actually getting pieces to be as interchangeable as Lego parts and automatically configuring them to work in a system on a chip requires more than technology. It requires a leap of faith on the part of chip engineers, and that doesn’t happen overnight. The first step toward providing the tools was creation of the ... » read more

Things You Never Knew About System Verilog
By Ed Sperling - 23 Oct, 2008 - Comments: 0

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its usefulness in designing and verifying new chips is well known among those who work with it. The only problem is that many engineers still don’t know how to use more than a fraction of its capabilities�... » read more

Multicore Programming: The Next Frontier?
By Ed Sperling - 22 Oct, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling From a distance it looks like a game of hot potato. But this version is played by hardware and software engineers, who normally don’t have much to do with each other. The hardware engineers say you can’t get any more performance out of a single core on a chip without cooking it, so they’ve added more cores and tossed the problem over the wall to the software e... » read more

Verifying ASICs with FPGA Arrays
By Ed Sperling - 16 Oct, 2008 - Comments: 0

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Cross-Talking with TLM 2.0
By Ed Sperling - 16 Sep, 2008 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling It’s almost like flying over the Great Plains of the United States. On the ground it’s hard to see above the corn stalks, but in an airplane you can see the entire horizon even if you can’t see those stalks anymore. The analogy is similar to where most of the major players in chip design say the engineering for systems on chips needs to go. With millions more gates avai... » read more

Object-Oriented Programming Is Back
By Ed Sperling - 16 Sep, 2008 - Comments: 0

Object-oriented programming is finally starting to look promising. For anyone who’s been following this technology, a statement like that is enough to evoke loud groans. Object-oriented programming, a.k.a. OOP, was first developed in the early 1960s. The goal was, and still is, to re-use components in software development—almost like Legos—by raising the level of abstraction for progra... » read more

New Challenges For Hardware Engineers
By Ed Sperling - 16 Sep, 2008 - Comments: 0

  It used to be fun to be a chip architect. You could wake up in the morning, grab a cup of strong black coffee and run through a few power and performance tradeoff calculations before deciding on the high-level architecture. That would set the engineering direction for months, if not years. On a good day, after introducing a steady infusion of caffeine into your bloodstream, you felt like ... » read more

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