The prevailing wisdom coming out of the Design Automation Conference and other recent conferences is that to make system-level design a reality, tools must first address system verification. Well, ...

A look back at the history of design methodologies as they’ve progressed through various levels of abstraction shows that as the elements of a methodology emerge, acceptance is usually stymied by a ...

Fifteen years ago, designers were buzzing about a new design approach: Register Transfer Level (RTL) Design. There was a fundamental change underway in how chip designs were created and implemented.

Electronic system level (ESL) is a design methodology idea that gained steam in the last 20 years centered mainly around the idea of using higher levels of abstraction to define and implement an ...

New Release Greatly Simplifies the Adoption of ESL Technologies and Improves Design Efficiency Required to Deploy ESL and Accelerate Design Innovation SAN JOSE, Calif. -- November 5, 2007-- CoWare®, ...

A few years ago, just talking about injecting a new language into hardware design -- namely C -- raised technical and emotional issues. Hardware engineers accustomed to using HDLs shuddered to think ...

Expecting the future to replicate the past always leads to surprises and when it comes to migration of abstraction for semiconductor design, the future remains unclear. It was 20 years ago that Gary ...