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December
2007 |
EDA Tech Forum
Using a 'divide
and conquer' approach to system verification
John Willoughby - Today’s increasingly
complex designs typically need to undergo
verification at three different levels: block,
interconnect and system. There are now
well-established strategies for addressing the
first two, but the system level, while in many
ways the ultimate test, remains the weakest
link in the verification process. |
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October
2007 |
Electronic Design
EDA Acquisitions:
Who Pays The Price?
John Willoughby -
Acquisitions by EDA companies are a fact of
life. Even in the worst of times, not a year
goes by without a raft of them. In fact,
Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, and Cadence are the
result of countless mergers over the years.
Sometimes, things don’t go as planned, but
either way the customers’ project teams are
often the ones who pay the price of the
acquisition. |
October
2007 |
ARM DC Webcast – Journal Webcasts
Models for
Virtual Platforms
Bill Neifert - Look for the Models for the Virtual Platforms - Bill Neifert tab in the right hand navigation. |
September
2007 |
Electronic Business
Opinion: System Integration Offers High-Growth Opportunity for EDA
Rick Lucier — I’m often left flat-footed at cocktail parties when asked to explain what industry I work in. When this happens –– and it often does –– I pull my cell phone out of my pocket and say I work in an industry that enables the creation of these devices. |
September
2007 |
EETimes
Viewpoint: Is ESL for Everyone?
John Willoughby — Like the Dr. Seuss story about plain-bellied Sneetches who all wanted to become star-bellied Sneetches, so too are EDA vendors all claiming now to be "ESL vendors" despite how much they often need to stretch the definition. |
September 2007 |
Chip Design Magazine
Putting Together Win-Win-Win Migration Programs Makes Good Business Sense
Scott Seaton — While an acquisition is a major win for two vendor suppliers, the needs of a customer or project team is often overlooked, leaving them without the support and service. The solution is... |
September 2007 |
Chip Design Magazine
Case Study: Carbon Design Systems and iVivity
Bill Neifert — "Carbon allows us to rapidly identify, fix and verify fixes in our software and makes me confident that we'll have software up and running the first day we get our chips back from fab."
Jim O'Connor, Senior Vice President of Engineering, iVivity. |
August
2007 |
Electronic Design
Carbon Design Offers Free Migration To Tenison Users
The Carbon program is aimed at Tenison users who may be concerned about their tool flow in the wake of Tenison’s acquisition by ARC International in June.
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July
2007 |
EE Times
Carbon Offers Free Tenison Migration Program
Gabe Moretti — Following the acquisition of Tenison by ARC International, Carbon Design Systems has announced a program to offer customers of Tenison Design Automation's VTOC products an easy migration path to Carbon's family of model generation solutions.
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July
2007 |
SOC central
Carbon Design Systems Offers Free Tenison Migration Program
Carbon Design Systems, Inc. has announced a program to offer customers of Tenison Design Automation's VTOC products an easy migration path to Carbon's family of model generation solutions. The Tenison Migration Program is a limited-time offer that includes free use of Carbon's tools, custom integration software, and tailored services to speed the migration in exchange for signing on with Carbon. The program runs now through October 31, 2007. |
May
2007 |
EE Times / OnDemand at DAC
'OnDemand' models speed firmware debugging
Richard Goering — Carbon Design Systems Inc. will show new modeling technology for its Virtual System Prototype environment, which abstracts RTL models into fast, cycle-accurate virtual prototypes. The On- Demand technology speeds firmware debugging because OnDemand models can automatically disable themselves when they're inactive, Carbon says. |
March
2007 |
EE Times
Carbon Models Compatible with CoWare Tools
SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic system-level (ESL) hardware model vendor Carbon Design Systems said Thursday (March 1) that its models are now "plug-and-play" compatible with the Platform Architect design environment from ESL vendor CoWare Inc. Carbon (Waltham, Mass.) said its openly available SystemC modeling library was used to integrate Carbon's models into CoWare's simulation environment and provide full model visibility to the Platform Architect suite of analysis and debugging tools.
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February
2007 |
VSI Alliance
ESL Success Depends Upon Accurate Models
It has been increasingly obvious that the design methodologies that were used to build successful ASIC programs are going to be insufficient for the next generation of complex systems and system-on-chip designs. ESL solutions have attempted to solve this problem by abstracting the description of a system and the associated components. ESL methodologies have been adopted and used successfully on hundreds of designs. However, this experience has exposed the fundamental weakness of this approach. An ESL system description is only as accurate as the models it incorporates. There is typically no link between the models used in an ESL system description and the actual implementation of that system in silicon. |
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