Source: Tech Design Forum Emulation has evolved from infancy at the end of the 1980s to adolescence in the 1990s and finally to maturity in the 21st Century. Yes, emulation has been around for close to 30 years. Who remembers Supersim, the first custom-field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based emulator launched in 1988, pre-dating the rise of Zycad, Quickturn … Read more

Source: EDACafé ecently, I spent a few enjoyable days in Austin at the Design Automation Conference, June 6-9, attending sessions, checking out verification vendors exhibiting on the show floor and catching up with long-time friends and colleagues. Evenings were filled with dinner events and more catching up. The event was opened Monday morning by Chuck J. … Read more

Lauro Rizzatti, Alex Starr, Guy Hutchison, and Rick Leatherman discuss the status quo of new emulation approaches and deployment modes Source: EETimes Editor’s Note: Dr. Lauro Rizzatti recently moderated a discussion on hardware emulation deployment modes with Alex Starr, AMD fellow at AMD; Guy Hutchison, Cavium’s associate vice president, Hardware Engineering, and Rick Leatherman, director Developer Tools … Read more

Hardware emulation can be a key player when performing design verification, but one needs to examine all of its facets to determine whether it best fits certain criteria Source: Electronic Design I recently attended an invited talk by a senior manager of a design group within a large networking company. He described the group’s verification flow … Read more

Verification ExpertDVCon attendance could rival Super Tuesday with hardware emulation ROI draw Source: Semiconductor Engineering It may be fitting that DVCon will be held the same week as Super Tuesday this year, the day when the greatest number of states in the U.S. hold primary elections. Big dollar expenditures and return on investment (ROI) strategies are … Read more

Source: SemiWiki Mentor hosted a panel on emulation in their booth at DAC this year. One thing I really liked about this panel is that it didn’t include anyone from Mentor. Not that I have anything against Mentor employees, who are a fine bunch of people from those I know, but I find panels most interesting … Read more

Source: Verification Horizons Take a step down the stack beyond optical networks, switches, routers and software-defined networking to consider the networking system on chip (SoC), the brains of the network infrastructure. Networking SoCs, integrated circuits (ICs) that combine all components of an electronic system, such as an Ethernet switch or router, onto a single chip, … Read more

The 2016 Mentor Graphics’ User Group boasted five technical sessions focused on emulation Source: EETimes The 2016 Mentor Graphics’ User Group, or U2U, was held at the Marriott Santa Clara on April 26. According to the opening remarks by Don Kurelich, Americas technical director at Mentor Graphics, it was attended by about 900 visitors. I had … Read more

Enhancing data center network security and packet transmission features has contributed to a rising gate count for networking SoCs, but even in the face of growing complexity, market windows can’t be missed Source: EECatalog In the contest for the most complex and largest chips on the market today, the mighty networking chip shares the crown with … Read more

Source: EDACafé Of course, anyone who reads my blog posts on EDACafe knows I have a huge bias toward hardware emulation –– In fact, my blog is called Hardware Emulation Journal! I’ve been a part of this Design Automation market segment since 1995 and continue to believe it is the most versatile of all verification tools. … Read more