The Immensity of Software Development the Challenges of Debugging (Part 1 of 4)

The Immensity of Software Development the Challenges of Debugging (Part 1 of 4)
by Lauro Rizzatti on 07-15-2024 at 10:00 am

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Part 1 of this 4-part series introduces the complexities of developing and bringing up the entire software stack on a System on Chip (SoC) or Multi-die system. It explores various approaches to deployment, highlighting their specific objectives and the unique challenges they address.

Introduction

As the saying goes, it’s… Read More


Reduce Risk, Ensure Compliance: Hardware-Assisted Verification for Design Certification

Reduce Risk, Ensure Compliance: Hardware-Assisted Verification for Design Certification
by Lauro Rizzatti on 06-12-2024 at 10:00 am

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Prologue

Peter was running late for two reasons. First, he encountered unexpected heavy traffic and arrived ten minutes late for a crucial meeting with a customer to run a compliance test of his new 6G phone design prototyped on FPGAs. This prototype’s success was pivotal, as it could secure a significant purchase order.Read More


SoC Power Islands Verification with Hardware-assisted Verification

SoC Power Islands Verification with Hardware-assisted Verification
by Lauro Rizzatti on 05-14-2024 at 10:00 am

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The ever-growing demand for longer battery life in mobile devices and energy savings in general have pushed power optimization to the top of designers’ concerns. While various techniques like multi-VT transistors and clock gating offer power savings at gate-level design, the real impact occurs at system level, where hardware… Read More


DSP SoC a la Française

DSP SoC a la Française
by Lauro Rizzatti on 02-04-2018 at 11:00 am

I enjoyed reading Eric Esteve’s article “ French Tech at CES, 2nd country after USA with 274 Start-Up at Eureka Park!” It brought back happy memories of my time at EVE until Synopsys purchased it in 2012.Here is another intriguing story by a French startup named VSORA and founded by Khaled Maalej with a team of scientists and engineers.Read More


The Evolution of Emulation

The Evolution of Emulation
by Bernard Murphy on 06-13-2016 at 7:00 am

Mentor hosted a panel on emulation in their booth at DAC this year. One thing I really liked about this panel is that it didn’t include anyone from Mentor. Not that I have anything against Mentor employees, who are a fine bunch of people from those I know, but I find panels most interesting when the discussion is purely among customers.… Read More