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Technology Implications for 2016
Gabe Moretti, Senior Editor Although it is logical to expect that all sectors of the EDA industry will see improvements in 2016, some sectors will be more active as they are more directly connected...
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High Level Synthesis (HLS) Splits EDA Market
Recent acquisitions and spin-offs by the major electronic design automation company’s reveals key differences in the design of complex chips. Last week, Cadence Design Systems announced the acquisition...
View ArticleRaising The IP Abstraction Level
By Ed Sperling An increasing reliance on commercial and re-used IP and more emphasis placed on software development is adding even more pressure onto semiconductor design teams to figure out the...
View ArticleBlog Review: March 20
By Ed Sperling Synopsys’ Parag Goel highlights some of the papers on verification and SystemVerilog that will be presented at next week’s Synopsys User Group, aka SNUG. If you’re registered, grab a...
View ArticleLike Oil And Water
By Ann Steffora Mutschler For years, the promise and allure of a concurrent design methodology included talk of models, high-level synthesis, virtual prototyping and other system-level technologies all...
View ArticleMaking The Case For HLS
Algorithms and architectures used in today’s new designs are so complex that traditional design practices are becoming inadequate. This paper gives an overview of the problems associated with the...
View ArticleSynthesizing Algorithms From MATLAB And Model-Based Descriptions
Algorithm design is one of the most significant factors in the increasing complexity of IC design and verification. Algorithm, signal processing, and system engineers have increasingly been using...
View ArticleExperts At The Table: The Past, Present And Future Of Synthesis
By Ed Sperling System-Level Design sat down to discuss the future of synthesis with Shawn McCloud, product line director for Catapult C Synthesis as Mentor Graphics; Chris Eddington, director of...
View ArticleExperts At The Table: The Past, Present And Future Of Synthesis
Experts At The Table: The Past, Present And Future Of Synthesis High-level synthesis raises the abstraction level, but it doesn’t eliminate the need for synthesizing at the RTL level; still no...
View ArticleSynthesis: Next Steps In SoC Design
Five experts sound off to System-Level Design on the state of synthesis and what’s needed in the future: Shawn McCloud, product line director for Catapult C Synthesis at Mentor Graphics; Chris...
View ArticleBoosting RTL Verification With High-Level Synthesis
Instead of prolonging the painful process of finding bugs in RTL code, the design flow needs to be geared toward creating bug-free RTL designs. This can be realized today by automating the generation...
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