Essential tools for SoC hardware/software design Source: Electronic Products Close to 40 years ago, the first commercial digital simulator brought to market by Comprehensive Computing Systems and Services Inc. was called TEGAS — for test generation and simulation system. Developed by a small team of experts, it operated at the gate level — analog simulators operated at the … Read more
“Have it your way” seems like just the right strategy to get a chip design verified correctly Source: EETimes In May 2014, Burger King announced it was scrapping its 40-year-old slogan, “Have it your way.” I say, let’s make it our own to describe the hardware emulation space, where the tools are having a remarkable impact … Read more
Source: Kilopass The recent announcement from a large electronic design automation (EDA) vendor touting its hardware emulation tools’ expanded support for system-level memory designs is welcome news. Hardly surprising, though, given the massive amount of verification horsepower needed to analyze and debug today’s memory-filled SoC designs. From what I can glean from the company’s marketing materials, … Read more
We look at how best to leverage both software debug tools and emulators, the limitations to traditional techniques, and the drive toward offline debug Source: Tech Design Forum More than 90% of all system-on-chip (SoC) designs contain embedded processors that must be tested in the context of the final design before silicon is available. You cannot … Read more
Hardware emulation has become a key component of a project team’s verification strategy, used to effectively debug complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs Source: Electronic Design Lauro Rizzatti is more than one of our longest-running Contributing Technical Experts. He also was general manager of EVE-USA and its vice president of marketing before Synopsys acquired it. He also is a global citizen, whose 30-year … Read more
Emulation allows the register transfer level (RTL) source code to be used as the model but with enough processing performance to enable system-level work, especially when it involves software development or running software workloads. Source: Electronic Design More design is being done at the system level than ever before. The enabling technology for much of it … Read more
If loaded with enough resources, a modern emulator can be accessed 24/7 and shared among tens of concurrent users distributed on a vast territory covering multiple continents. Source: EETimes A light breeze was clearing the starry sky in Bangalore, India, on a warm early spring Friday evening. Down on earth, the weekend rush hour made the … Read more
Source: Chip Design These days, you’d need to be buried under a pile of verification reports not to know that hardware emulation has gone mainstream, moving away from a dusty back room to your cubemate’s desktop. The metamorphosis did not happen overnight –– it was more like a decade-long journey –– but once it happened, the … Read more
The number of times the word emulation was uttered: 35 for Mentor, 21 for Cadence, three for Synopsys… Source: EETimes Hardware emulation has become a mainstay of most verification strategies. Why, then, has conventional wisdom held that the hardware emulation market will never rise beyond $300 million in revenue and has a limited future growth? It … Read more
The forthcoming Design Automation Conference (DAC) will be a prime venue to learn more about the varied uses of hardware emulation. Source: EETimes As much as I would like to take credit for the title of this viewpoint, I must step back and give credit to D.A. Davidson, a financial analyst firm that follows the Electronic … Read more