ESL Expertise when You Need It. Spinning Up Faster

ESL Expertise when You Need It. Spinning Up Faster
by Bernard Murphy on 12-30-2020 at 6:00 am

CircuitSutra min

System-level expertise, once the domain a few architecture specialists, is now shouldering its way everywhere into chip design and verification. In virtual modeling together with OS and application software certainly. That now couples into mixed-level system-verification, using different levels of abstraction for different… Read More


The Heart of Trust in the Cloud. Hardware Security IP

The Heart of Trust in the Cloud. Hardware Security IP
by Bernard Murphy on 12-22-2020 at 6:00 am

The Heart of Trust in the Cloud

You might think that cloud services run on never-ending racks of servers and switches in giant datacenters. But what they really run on is trust. Trust that your data (or your client’s data) is absolutely tamper-proof inside that datacenter. Significantly more secure than it would be if you tried to manage the same operations in… Read More


An Accellera Update. COVID Accelerates Progress

An Accellera Update. COVID Accelerates Progress
by Bernard Murphy on 12-17-2020 at 6:00 am

logo accellera min

Normally I would post this Accellera update during DVCon US but, no surprise, this year is weird. Particularly in conferences going virtual. The last DVCon was in early March of this year, right on the cusp of the shutdown. I was there in person, as was Lu Dai (Chairman of Accellera). Both Synopsys and Cadence had dropped out, citing… Read More


More on Bug Localization. Innovation in Verification

More on Bug Localization. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 12-15-2020 at 6:00 am

innovation min

Mining assertions from constrained random simulations to localize bugs. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Jim Hogan and I continue our series on research ideas. Feel free to comment.

The Innovation

This month’s pick is Symptomatic bug localization for functional debug of hardware designs. This paper was presented… Read More


Smoother MATLAB to HLS Flow

Smoother MATLAB to HLS Flow
by Bernard Murphy on 12-09-2020 at 6:00 am

A better design path from MATLAB 1 min

It hard to imagine design of a complex signal processing or computer vision application starting somewhere other than in MATLAB. Prove out the algorithm in MATLAB, then re-model in Simulink, to move closer to hardware. First probably an architectural model, using MATLAB library functions to prove out behavior of the larger system.… Read More


ML plus formal for analog. Innovation in Verification

ML plus formal for analog. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 11-30-2020 at 6:00 am

innovation min

Can machine learning be combined with formal to find rare failures in analog designs? ML plus formal for analog – neat! Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Jim Hogan and I continue our series on research ideas. Here an idea from analog simulation sampling. Feel free to comment.

The Innovation

This month’s pick… Read More


Folding at Home. The Ultimate in Parallel Acceleration

Folding at Home. The Ultimate in Parallel Acceleration
by Bernard Murphy on 11-26-2020 at 6:00 am

COVID spike protein min

You may have heard of Folding at Home. It’s a very creative way that a bioengineering team, based at Washington University in St Louis, are modeling the process of protein folding. Greg Bowman, an associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the university directs the project and presented at Arm DevSummit this year. … Read More


The Reality of ISO 26262 Interpretation. Experience Matters

The Reality of ISO 26262 Interpretation. Experience Matters
by Bernard Murphy on 11-24-2020 at 6:00 am

Man scratching head min

Interpreting ISO 26262 without ambiguity is not always easy. Suppliers and integrators can read some aspects differently, creating confusion. Which is a problem since ISO 26262 has become so much a part of any discussion on automotive electronics that it has gained almost biblical significance. Yet most of us, even suppliers… Read More


The Tell-Tale Entrepreneur, An Easy New Year’s Resolution

The Tell-Tale Entrepreneur, An Easy New Year’s Resolution
by Bernard Murphy on 11-19-2020 at 6:00 am

The Tell-Tale Entrepreneur

Wondering what you might do to up your game this year? What about improving your communication skills? Soothing an angry client, trying to find appeal for a product that’s not exciting customers, or finding the right investor? Working through a growth challenge you under-estimated, or generating excitement in an audience you… Read More


Better Speech Recognition by Reducing Babble

Better Speech Recognition by Reducing Babble
by Bernard Murphy on 11-17-2020 at 6:00 am

I’ve become a bit of a connoisseur of voice-based control, so when Chris Rowen did a pitch on Babble Labs at Arm Dev Summit last month, I wanted to listen in.  Chris was the CEO of Babble Labs, recently acquired by the Cisco Webex group where he’s now listed as VP Engineering of the Voice Technology Group. You should expect to see this… Read More