Source: Electronics360 Almost three decades ago, management consulting firm McKinsey and Co. postulated that a late market entry in highly competitive markets with short market windows has devastating effects on profits. Applying this wisdom to the semiconductor industry where almost all markets are highly competitive, three factors contribute to disastrous results, including engineering cost overruns, respin costs … Read more
Lauro Rizzatti implores designers to follow the crowd, defying moms everywhere Source: EETimes When you were a kid, your mother may have admonished you when you wanted to do something everyone else was doing by saying: “Just because someone else does something, doesn’t mean you should.” Well, I hate to disagree with mom, but project teams … Read more
Source: Embedded Computing Design As someone who’s been in the verification field for many years, when I hear big data, I don’t immediately think of massive amounts of personal data being collected in the cloud. Not by a long shot. When it comes to big data, I think system-on-chip (SoC) design. The complexity of these types … Read more
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