When Invaluable Kills Business

When Invaluable Kills Business
by Frederic Leens on 12-11-2017 at 7:00 am

Productivity is notoriously hard to sell. I recently visited a company where the engineering team wanted to evaluate one of our FPGA debug and analysis products on an existing board. This board had an FPGA that we supported and had all the required connectivity – it could just be used ‘out of the box’. Our tool – ExostivRead More


Enhancing FPGA Prototype Debug

Enhancing FPGA Prototype Debug
by Daniel Nenni on 12-06-2017 at 7:00 am

FPGA prototyping is very popular in modeling hardware for early system prove-out, early embedded software development, as a cost-effective and performance-effective platform for software-driven hardware debug and for late-stage software debug, all before silicon is available. It has significant advantages in run-time… Read More


What are you ready to mobilize for FPGA debug?

What are you ready to mobilize for FPGA debug?
by Frederic Leens on 12-04-2017 at 7:00 am

There are 3 common misconceptions about debugging FPGA with the real hardware:

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  • Debugging happens because the engineers are incompetent.
  • FPGA debugging on hardware ‘wastes’ resources.
  • A single methodology should solve ALL the problems.
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    Scale the tools not your expectations

    Scale the tools not your expectations
    by Frederic Leens on 11-16-2017 at 12:00 pm

    The complexity of silicon chips is exploding. Actually, it has been growing at a tremendous speed for decades. So far, the semiconductor industry has been successful at providing new ways to master new levels of complexity, over and over again.

    Standardizing hardware platforms, using higher-level languages with a knowledge… Read More


    Free PDF Version of PROTOTYPICAL for SoC Design

    Free PDF Version of PROTOTYPICAL for SoC Design
    by Daniel Nenni on 11-12-2017 at 7:00 am

    In our quest to further enlighten the masses SemiWiki has published four books, we have two more eBooks in post production due out in Q1 2018 and two more topics in research. All of the books are available free for PDF versions or you can get printed versions on Amazon.com or free printed versions at book signings or if you happen to meet… Read More


    DesignShare is all About Enabling Design Wins!

    DesignShare is all About Enabling Design Wins!
    by Daniel Nenni on 11-08-2017 at 7:00 am

    One of the barriers to silicon success has always been design costs, especially if you are an emerging company or targeting an emerging market such as IoT. Today design start costs are dominated by IP which is paid at the start of the project and that is after costly IP evaluations and other IP verification and integration challenges.… Read More


    The perfect pairing of SOCs and embedded FPGA IP

    The perfect pairing of SOCs and embedded FPGA IP
    by Tom Simon on 10-30-2017 at 12:00 pm

    In life, there are some things that just go together. Imagine the world without peanut butter and jelly, eggs and potatoes, telephones and voicemail, or the internet and search engines. In the world of computing there are many such examples – UARTS and FIFO’s, processor cores and GPU’s, etc. Another trait all these things have is… Read More


    An IIot Gateway to the Cloud

    An IIot Gateway to the Cloud
    by Bernard Murphy on 10-10-2017 at 7:00 am

    A piece of learning we all seem to have gained from practical considerations of IoT infrastructure is that no, it doesn’t make sense to ship all the data from an IoT edge device to the cloud and let the cloud do all the computational heavy lifting. On the face of it that idea seemed good – all those edge devices could be super cheap (silicon… Read More


    Emulation Methodology for Drones and Other Video-Intensive Multimedia SoCs

    Emulation Methodology for Drones and Other Video-Intensive Multimedia SoCs
    by Richard Pugh on 09-28-2017 at 12:00 pm

    What do drones, augmented reality devices, and 4K UHD TV have in common? They all include complex system-on-chips (SoCs) that must encode and decode, in real-time, data for increasingly higher definition video content. Verifying that these SoC designs are functionally correct is quite complex, but they must also function efficiently… Read More


    TSMC OIP and the Insatiable Computing Trend!

    TSMC OIP and the Insatiable Computing Trend!
    by Daniel Nenni on 09-14-2017 at 12:00 am

    This year’s OIP was much more lighthearted than I remember which is understandable. TSMC is executing flawlessly, delivering new process technology every year. Last year’s opening speaker, David Keller, used the phrase “Celebrate the way we collaborate” which served as the theme for the conference. This year David’s… Read More