Source: EDACafé The 2015 DVCon/Europe was held in Munich at the Holliday Inns City Center Hotel November 11-12. November in Munich brought back long ago memories of a snow covered city with freezing temperatures when I lived there in the 80s. Not this November. Warm, sunny days crowned the conference and invited attendees to take a … Read more

Source:  Verification Horizon THE LAST DECADE At the beginning of the third decade, circa 2005, system and chip engineers were developing evermore complex designs that mixed many interconnected blocks, embedded multicore processors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and a plethora of peripherals, supported by large memories. The combination of all of these components gave real meaning … Read more

Source:  EDACafé Graphics chips, the longtime champs of massive designs, have lost their title to the new heavyweight, Ethernet switch and router chips, which weigh in at half a billion or more ASIC-equivalent gates. The complexity of the networking chip stems from a set of unique characteristics such as large number of ports, expanded throughput, … Read more

Project teams designing complex switches and routers have turned to hardware emulation as the foundation for their verification strategy to battle network congestion and outages. Source:  EETimes Project teams designing complex switches and routers have turned to hardware emulation as the foundation for their verification strategy to battle network congestion and outages. We consumers are … Read more

By preserving capacity without sacrificing coverage, verification engineering teams get comprehensive functional verification with minimal incremental effort and without a hit on emulation capacity. Source:  Electronic Design The huge undertaking of verifying a system-on-chip (SoC) design has challenged engineers for more than 20 years –– the amount of time spent on it hasn’t varied much … Read more

Source:  EDACafé With due differences in subject matter – classic opera versus chip design verification – and, in a judgement call, a trivial farce versus expensive and hard to use, I see a similarity with what’s happening with hardware emulation. First devised in the middle of the 1980s, driven by the progress in field programmable … Read more

Source:  EDACafé Many PBS stations in the U.S. are promoting the rebroadcast of the 1984 series “The Jewel of the Crown.” A jewel in the crown was my sentiment about the recent DVCon India, one of several design and verification conferences organized by the industry standards organization Accellera Systems Initiative. DVCon India was held in … Read more

An emulator’s performance — or its speed of execution — depends on the architecture of the emulation system and the type of deployment. Source: EETimes In my previous post, Performance in Hardware Emulators, I discussed the dependency of performance on the type of deployment. In this column, I will examine the relationship between emulation system architectures … Read more

One of the consequences of the IoT is an increase in the number of Ethernet ports. Source: Semiconductor Engineering The enormous growth of the Internet of things (IoT) has an enormous impact on network providers. After all, without the underlying network infrastructure, there would be no IoT. One consequence has been a significant increase in the … Read more

Source: Tech Design Forum Historically, the first method to be deployed and to this day most popular method for using a hardware emulator is the in-circuit-emulation (ICE) mode. In this mode, the emulator is plugged into a socket on the physical target system in place of a yet-to-be-built chip to support exercising and debugging the design-under-test … Read more