tag: virtual prototyping

The Week In Review: Oct. 4
By Mark LaPedus - 04 Oct, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus & Ed Sperling eSilicon introduced an automated multi-project wafer quote system, which allows companies to sort through a number of options and get pricing. The quotes are tied into TSMC's 20nm to 350nm processes, and GlobalFoundries’ 20nm to 180nm processes. The approach eliminates the need for companies to buy a full wafer if their volume requirements don’t warrant it... » read more

What Type of Insurance Do You Have?
By Tom De Schutter - 25 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

With the software development effort now accounting for roughly half of the overall SoC development cost, any delay on the software availability side can have a big impact on the SoC availability. As one engineer of a major semiconductor vendor expressed to me: “The SoC hardware is typically only available a couple of weeks before we want to announce and demonstrate it at a major show like CE... » read more

Experts At The Table: Next-Generation IP Landscape
By Ann Mutschler - 13 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler System-Level Design sat down to discuss predictions about the next generation design IP landscape with Robert Aitken, R&D fellow at ARM; Laurent Moll, chief technical officer at Arteris; Susan Peterson, group director, product marketing for verification IP & memory models in the system & software realization group at Cadence; and John Koeter, vice preside... » 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

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

Experts At The Table: SoC Prototyping
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jun, 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, for the system development suite at Cadence; and Mick Posner, director of product marketing at Synopsys. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SLD: How... » read more

A Team Is Only As Strong As Its Captain
By Tom De Schutter - 27 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter Last week I was in Cambridge, UK. Although the weather wasn’t great, which seems to be pretty standard every time I visit, it actually didn’t rain a whole lot. That was a victory in itself. On one of the evenings I was eating with some colleagues at a restaurant overlooking Parker’s Piece, a 25-acre square of grass near the center of Cambridge. Frequent visitors of ... » read more

A Team Is Only As Strong As Its Captain
By Tom De Schutter - 27 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

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Formal Verification Comes Of Age
By Ed Sperling - 30 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Formal verification technology, also known as formal property checking, has been in existence since the early 1990s. Still, it’s only in the past five years that it has made big strides in the last five years in terms of the capacity of the technology to handle bigger pieces of a design, leveraging advancements in computing as well as improvements to the algor... » read more

Reducing Wait Time
By Tom De Schutter - 25 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Tom De Schutter Last month we were all waiting for white smoke to emerge from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. I am of course talking about the election of the new pope. I couldn’t help but see a parallel with how software developers are anxiously waiting for their software to run correctly and finally get past the series of seemingly never ending bugs (black ... » read more

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