Corporations around the world are suffering from the relentless rise of cyber-crime, cyber-espionage and cyber-terrorism. In addition to severely harming a company’s reputation, breaches into their secure systems threaten customers’ privacy, safety, and wellbeing. As a result, companies are taking … [Read more...]

The complexity of electrical, electronic, and wiring systems is expanding as products in various industries increasingly rely on electrical and electronic components to perform their most basic functions. In addition, product requirements are in near-constant flux causing hundreds of design changes … [Read more...]

The massive complexity inherent in autonomous vehicle design will push the tools and methodologies used by automotive engineers to their limits. This is especially true in the electrical and electronic systems domains as they come to dominate the operation of a vehicle’s safety-critical systems and … [Read more...]

In order to significantly speed up verification and to handle complex algorithms that change daily, many companies are turning to a High-Level Synthesis (HLS) methodology. But, it is extremely important that the high-level C++ model is correct. Even if correctly written, the high-level model could … [Read more...]

Computer vision solutions are all around us, in cars, consumer products, security, retail, and agriculture. But, designing these solutions is not easy, mainly because of constant algorithm upgrades and related requirements changes. This means that wherever the team is in the RTL creation and … [Read more...]

A whole new class of networking devices have created a compelling reason to use emulation for system verification. That’s because network switch SoC designs have transitioned from fixed-function topologies to highly configurable match action devices which makes an emulation-based methodology ideal … [Read more...]

Power analysis and optimization is gaining importance such that most IC design teams incorporate steps and tools in their flow for power management. Despite this push, most power analysis still uses verification scenarios that are too basic and disconnected from actual system usage. This paper … [Read more...]

Silicon photonics offers up the promise of blazing fast data transmission, high bandwidth, and low power consumption—essential for today’s high-performance computing, telecommunications, military, defense, aerospace, medical, and research applications. However, to realize that promise, design … [Read more...]

Understanding co-modeling technology in an emulation environment and its’ impact on verification and validation is critical to improving a wide range of significant capabilities. This is especially true in the areas of functionality, performance, debug, power analysis, design for test (DFT), … [Read more...]

When designers move their untimed C++ design descriptions through a high-level synthesis (HLS) flow, they wonder if the generated, timed RTL is functionally equivalent to the original, high-level description. When they make refinements or optimize RTL for power, they naturally are concerned that … [Read more...]