| High-Productivity Design Tools for Custom Analog ICs by Tanner EDA in Electronic Products Magazine |
June 1, 2011 -- Industry analyst firm Databeans cites 30% growth in the $42 billion analog integrated circuit (IC) market for 2010. While this represents only approximately 14% of the entire global semiconductor market, the analog IC segment rep ... read more |
| Verifying Designs Before Committing to Hardware by MathWorks, Inc. in Electronic Products Magazine |
June 1, 2011 -- Designers of robot control systems are being pushed to provide better performance and more features, all while meeting tight deadlines and keeping costs down. As these demands grow, traditional design and verification methodologi ... read more |
| Two Methodologies for ASIC Conversion by EE Times EDA Designline |
May 31, 2011 -- ASIC vendor eASIC's announcement of a conversion path from its Nextreme structured devices to a fully cell-based ASIC offers an interesting opportunity to reflect on conversion methodologies. Comparing it to a recent discussion o ... read more |
| Guidelines for SystemC: Debugger Integration by NXP Semiconductors in Design & Reuse |
May 26, 2011 -- Availability of hardware for embedded software development is generally delayed as the hardware development cycle takes longer to complete. An integrated setup of an executable specification of the hardware with a software debugg ... read more |
| Power Optimization in Image Superscalar IP by Design & Reuse |
May 26, 2011 -- As process geometries have scaled, design teams have used more and more of the additional silicon real estate available on chips to integrate embedded memories that serve as scratch-pads, FIFOs and caches to store data for the co ... read more |
| Improving Today's Multimedia Products with 3rd-Party Audio IP Solutions by Synopsys, Inc. in EE Times Audio Designline |
May 25, 2011 -- In the multimedia market, there is insatiable consumer demand to create, transmit and share digital audio and video content. This demand is driving explosive growth in consumer electronic devices requiring audio post-processing s ... read more |
| It's Not Just About Hardware Anymore by Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) in EE Times Embedded |
May 25, 2011 -- In the hierarchy of systems, the processor has always played a central role. When making architectural decisions on a system, one of the first considerations is which processor to use. Once chosen and configured, a designer can g ... read more |
| HW/SW Co-Verification basics-Part 3: Hardware-Centric Methods by EE Times Embedded |
| -- As we have seen in Part 1 and Part 2, there are benefits and drawbacks of using software models of microprocessors and other hardware. This article discusses techniques that avoid model creation issues by using a representation of the microprocess ... read more |
| HW/SW Co-Verification Basics-Part 4: Co-Verification Metrics by EE Times Embedded |
May 24, 2011 -- Many metrics can be used to determine which of the co-verification methods discussed in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 are best for a particular project including: 1) Performance (speed); 2) Accuracy; 3) Synchronization; 4) Type of so ... read more |
| HW/SW Co-Verification Basics-Part 2: Software-Centric Methods by EE Times Embedded |
May 24, 2011 -- Most co-verification methods can be classified based on the execution engine used to run the hardware design. A secondary classification exists based on the method used to model the embedded system microprocessor. Generally, thes ... read more |
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