Source: SemiWiki By: Lauro Rizzatti I enjoyed reading Eric Esteve’s article “French Tech at CES, 2nd country after USA with 274 Start-Up at Eureka Park!” It brought back happy memories of my time at EVE until Synopsys purchased it in 2012. Here is another intriguing story by a French startup named VSORA and founded by Khaled … Read more

Source: EEWeb By: Lauro Rizzatti and Jean-Marie Brunet This is part 1 of a 3-part series called Hardware Emulation: Realizing its Potential. The series looks at the progression of hardware emulation from the early days to far into the new millennium. Part 1 covers the first decade from inception from ~1986 to about ~2000 when … Read more

Source: SemiWiki I enjoyed reading Eric Esteve’s article “French Tech at CES, 2nd country after USA with 274 Start-Up at Eureka Park!” It brought back happy memories of my time at EVE until Synopsys purchased it in 2012. Here is another intriguing story by a French startup named VSORA and founded by Khaled Maalej with a … Read more

Source: ElectronicDesign Download this article in PDF format. Every verification engineer today knows about hardware emulation and its capabilities. Some may know it’s a technology employed since the 1980s. However, not everyone knows the story of emulation’s winding path from a tool relegated to the dusty backrooms to widespread adoption, or the players involved. Follow … Read more

Source: EEWebw.eeweb.com/profile/lauro/articles/2017-was-hardware-emulations-marvel-apps-year By Max Maxfield | Wednesday, January 10, 2018 In this podcast, verification expert Lauro Rizzatti and EEWeb.com’s editor-in-chief, Max Maxfield, discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and design verification. One thing that I really like about my job is that there’s always something fun and exciting going on. Just a few weeks ago, for example, … Read more

Source: EEWebhttps://www.eeweb.com/profile/lauro/articles/2017-was-hardware-emulations-marvel-apps-year Looking back on the past 12 months, I marvel at how far hardware emulation has come over 20 years, and especially in 2017.  (Source: Brigitte Tohm on Unsplash.com) At DVCon India in September, three emulation users who participated to a panel I moderated agreed about the benefits of emulation, and clearly stated they … Read more

Source: Embedded Computing Design I recently had a chance to catch up with Bill Neifert, Senior Director of Market Development at ARM. Talking with Bill was like climbing into TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) with the time-traveling alien adventurer Doctor Who to be swept back to the 1990s. Hardware emulation is a relative newcomer … Read more

Source: EEWebEEWeb Lauro Rizzatti (far right) moderated a DVCon India session with panelists (from left to right) Sundararajan Haran, Ashok Natarajan, Ravindra Babu and Hanns Windele (Source: Lauro Rizzatti) Attendees at DVCon India in September were an enthusiastic and engaged group of verification engineers, as they were last year and the year before that. Once again, … Read more

Source: SemiWiki The fourth installment of DVCon India took place in Bangalore, September 14-15. As customary, it was hosted in the Leela Palace, a luxurious and tranquil resort in the center of Bangalore, and an excellent venue to host the popular event. As reported in my previous DVCon India trip reports, the daily and evening traffic … Read more

How emulation was used to debug out-of-spec power on a multicore ARM design using the AXI bus. Source: TDF Modern system-on-chip (SoC) designs include a vast amount of embedded software that makes them each unique, presenting challenges for failure analysis and debug. Through a stacked structure – made up of drivers, operating systems and applications … Read more