October 27,
2008 | "Bill Neifert - Wireless engineers are leveraging virtual prototypes of their system-on-chip designs to improve product quality and speed time to market. A virtual prototype can be an indispensable tool for performing early architectural analysis for throughput and power tradeoffs. Firmware developers can use virtual prototypes to develop and debug their software in advance of real silicon. In addition, virtual prototypes can be used to optimize the throughput of designs that have been built already. " |
August 04,
2008 | Bill Neifert - Groundbreaking technologies like TLM 2.0 are transforming the electronic system-level (ESL) from the realm of skunkworks projects and research labs into a mainstream development methodology for system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. |
July 15,
2008 | " Andy Ladd - A well thought-out modeling methodology can overcome obstacles to virtual platform adoption as well as ensure that users attain all the value that a virtual platform can provide. System-level environments increase developer productivity and bring products to market earlier, providing a development platform for architectural analysis, hardware/software codevelopment, and system validation. Models provide the backbone for any system-level platform; however, the difficulties and expenses involved in developing these models have limited virtual platform adoption. Andy describes the importance of an effective modeling strategy for virtual platform development. " |
July 08,
2008 | "Carbon Design Systems is the other company making news with a British deal. And this one is big. ARM and Carbon have reached an agreement whereby Carbon will take over the development, marketing, and support of SoC Designer. This means that ARM has come to the realization that its main business is IP development and marketing, not EDA tools. " |
July 07,
2008 | "ARM and Carbon Design Systems today announced an agreement under which Carbon will take over future development, support and sale of the SoC Designer tool. " |
June 25,
2008 | Bill Neifert - The increasing pressure on software-development schedules for embedded systems has driven many companies to adopt system prototyping strategies. A hybrid approach to configuring a virtual hardware platform enables developers to explore all facets of the system long before it's built. |
June 25,
2008 | "Andy Ladd - Many different methods are used to create virtual platforms, ranging from ad-hoc approaches to commercially available tools and platforms. Regardless of the approach taken, in order to construct a virtual platform, four critical components are required: models, a simulation engine, software, and analysis tools. " |
June 01,
2008 | Much has been made about the virtues of the virtual platform and at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) this week these virtues will be on full display. Benefits of adoption are clear and compelling –– virtual platforms allow system designers to optimize performance and power earlier in the design process and accelerate time to market by validating software and hardware in parallel pre-silicon. |
May 12,
2008 | "If you talk to vendors of electronic system-level (ESL) design tools , you’ll find that many have a unique approach to this evolving technology. Some vendors talk of virtual platforms, others focus on synthesis and simulation, and still others tout design services that help engineers develop systems at a very high level of abstraction. Though ESL tool providers have different solutions, they seem to agree on a few essential facts." |
May 01,
2008 | "Elizabeth Abraham - There is a crisis in our public education systems today.As professionals in the technology arena, most of us have an inkling of the statistics that reveal the seriousness of the state of education in our country. According to the U. S. Department of Education, we have one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the industrialized world. " |
April 24,
2008 | "David Maliniak - With the number of on-chip processors set to explode, software-development issues loom for design teams. Yet D&V methodologies may evolve to avert any stumbling over parallelism. " |
March 10,
2008 | John Willoughby - Speeding the verification effort by reusing simulation results across multiple simulation runs. |
March 01,
2008 | "John Willoughby - As system-level models speed up exploration and validation, designers need a way to plug the design-implementation models back in to confirm results. " |
February 27,
2008 | John Willoughby - Concerning Verification and Albert Einstein...what is the equation for verification productivity? |
January 01,
2008 | Peggy Aycinena conducts a virtual discussion between Carbon Design Systems’ President & CEO Rick Lucier and Altos Design Automation CEO & Founder Jim McCann |