A few times a year, I check in with AMIQ EDA co-founder Cristian Amitroaie to see what’s new with their company and the integrated development environment (IDE) market for hardware design and verification. Usually he suggests a topic for us to discuss, but this time I specifically wanted to learn more about the version of their Design… Read More
When I first heard the term ‘bespoke silicon,’ I had to get my dictionary out. Well versed in the silicon domain, I did not know what bespoke meant. It turns out to be a rather old-fashioned term for tailor made and seems to be very much British English. The word dates from 1583 and is the past participle of bespeak, according… Read More
Sigasi Studio serves as a code browser for VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog. You can navigate through your project to understand large and complex legacy designs. Visuals of your code update instantly and are cross-linked to your code to allow graphical
Sigasi Studio serves as a code browser for VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog. You can navigate through your project to understand large and complex legacy designs. Visuals of your code update instantly and are cross-linked to your code to allow graphical
LIVE WEBINAR: Better FPGA Verification with VHDL (Four Part Webinar Series)
Part 2: Faster than “Lite” Verification Component Development with OSVVM (US)
Jim Lewis, VHDL User, Designer, Verification Engineer, Trainer, OSVVM developer, and IEEE VHDL Chair
Thursday, June 9, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)… Read More
Part 1: OSVVM – Leading Edge Verification for the VHDL Community (US)
Jim Lewis, VHDL User, Designer, Verification Engineer, Trainer, OSVVM developer, and IEEE VHDL Chair
Thursday, May 26, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)
Abstract:
OSVVM is an advanced verification methodology that defines a VHDL verification framework,
Verific is an unusual company. They are completely dominant in what they do – providing parsers for Verilog/SV, VHDL and UPF. Yet they have no ambition to expand beyond that goal. Instead, per Michiel Ligthart (President and COO), they continue to “sharpen the saw”. This is an expression I learned in sales training, habit #7 from… Read More
Today, Semiwiki profiles Verific Design Automation, perhaps the most popular company at DAC (when it’s an in-person event) because of its giveaway –– a 10”stuffed giraffe for anyone who walks up to its booth and listens to its story.
But, Verific is also a popular EDA company for more reasons than its tradeshow giveaway.… Read More
Verification Challenge
As chip design complexity continues to grow astronomically with hardware accelerators running riot with the traditional hardware comprising CPUs, GPUs, networking and video and vision hardware, concurrency, control and coherency will dominate the landscape of verification complexity for safe … Read More
It has become a cliché to start a blog post with a cliché, for example “Chip designs are forever getting larger and more complex” or “Verification now consumes 60% of a project’s resources.” Therefore, I’ll open this post with another cliché: “Designers need to know only one language, but verification engineers must know many.”… Read More
