The State of IC and ASIC Functional Verification

The State of IC and ASIC Functional Verification
by Daniel Payne on 02-09-2023 at 10:00 am

Silicon Spins min

Way back in 2002 there was a study from Collett International Research on functional verification, and since 2010 the Wilson Research Group has continued that same kind of study with a new report every two years. What attracts me to this report is that it doesn’t just look at the installed base of one EDA vendor, instead it looks… Read More


FPGA Prototypes Made Easy

FPGA Prototypes Made Easy
by Paul McLellan on 05-23-2011 at 5:00 am

FPGA-based prototype boards are a fast, cost-effective platform for SoC system validation but they are notoriously difficult to set up and to debug. There is a big upside, however, allowing early software integration and testing and thus finding bugs in both the software and the SoC earlier. This approach is much cheaper than … Read More