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Deciphering Performance Analysis
By Ann Mutschler - 10 Sep, 2015 - Comments: 1

Simulation traditionally has been the go-to technology for improving system performance, but practices are evolving and maturing because engineering teams need to be able to simulate in multiple domains and at at multiple levels of abstraction. In addition, they need to tune the level of [getkc id="11" kc_name="simulation"] they are using to what types of models they have available, and what ki... » read more

Making Hardware Design More Agile
By Ed Sperling - 31 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor engineering sat down to whether changes are needed in hardware design methodology, with Philip Gutierrez, ASIC/FPGA design manager in [getentity id="22306" comment="IBM"]'s FlashSystems Storage Group; Dennis Brophy, director of strategic business development at [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor Graphics"]; Frank Schirrmeister, group director for product marketing of the System ... » read more

Rethinking Differentiation
By Ed Sperling - 28 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Differentiation is becoming more difficult, more time-consuming, and in some cases much more expensive for chipmakers. The traditional metrics of faster performance, lower power and less area/cost, which are leftovers from the PC era, no longer are a guarantee of success despite the fact that they are still baseline metrics for many designs. Even new metrics such as ecosystem completeness, w... » read more

Software Driving More Hardware Designs
By Ed Sperling - 27 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 2

The influence of software engineers is growing inside of chip and systems companies, reversing a decades-old trend of matching the software to the fastest or most power-efficient hardware and raising as-yet unanswered questions about what will change in SoC design. The shift is particularly evident in chips developed for high-volume markets such as mobile phones and tablets. It's also happen... » read more

Embedded Vision Becoming Ubiquitous
By Brian Bailey - 27 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Embedded vision is becoming a topic of heated conversation thanks to the emergence of neural networks and their ability to make computer systems learn by example. Neural networks are a very different kind of processing element compared to the other kind of processors we have in the IP arsenal today in that they are not programmed in the same manner. They do not have a stream of instructions... » read more

The Trouble With Abstractions
By Ann Mutschler - 27 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Ask chip engineers about the value of abstractions and you're likely to get a spectrum of answers. While abstractions help in seeing the big picture on complex designs, the data for performance and power needs to be annotated from detailed information the engineering team may obtain later in the design flow. There is valuable information that can come from using abstractions correctly. And ... » read more

Electronics Butterfly Effect
By Brian Bailey - 27 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 1

Everyone has heard of the butterfly effect where a small change in a non-linear system can result in large difference in an outcome. For the past 40 years, the electronics industry has approximated a linear system, fed primarily by Moore’s Law. The incremental changes available at each new process node have led us to make incremental changes and improvements in many aspects of the design, its... » read more

What Happened To ESL
By Ann Mutschler - 27 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 3

Electronic system level ([getkc id="48" kc_name="ESL"]) is a design methodology idea that gained steam in the last 20 years centered mainly around the idea of using higher levels of abstraction to define and implement an electronic design. It was defined and promoted by industry analyst Gary Smith, then at Gartner-Dataquest, and so much has been written on this topic over the years that ESL ... » read more

DVFS On The Sidelines
By Brian Bailey - 13 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 2

Power reduction is one of the most important aspects of chip design these days, but not all power reduction techniques are used equally. Some that were once important are fading and dynamic voltage, and frequency scaling (DVFS) is one of them. What's changed, and will we see a resurgence in the future? What is it? DVFS has physics powerfully in its favor. As Vinod Viswanath, director of res... » read more

Poised For Aspect-Oriented Design?
By Brian Bailey - 13 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 8

In 1992, [getperson id=" 11046 " comment="Yoav Hollander"] had the idea to take a software programming discipline called aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and apply it to the verification of hardware. Those concepts were incorporated into the [gettech id="31021" t_name="e"] language and [getentity id="22068" e_name="Verisity"] was formed to commercialize it. Hollander had seen that using obj... » read more

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