Imperas has been providing a free ESL simulator and models called Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) since their OVPWorld site went live a year or so ago. Recently, they did a survey of their users to find out the demand for a Linux version and also to gauge if the market would be willing to [...]
In one of my Internet searches, I locate all news stories related to ESL (minus the English as a Second Language references). Today I saw a press release from Fujitsu that looked interesting “Fujitsu Develops Chip-Simulation Environment for Mobile Phones”. Great I thought – an endorsement for ESL simulation, perhaps talks about SystemC or [...]
We hear a lot about unintended consequences in the economy these days. When the government or some other organization meddles with something, things happen that they had not thought about or intended. Today I saw that Richard Goering is now the senior manager for technical communications at Cadence. Looking back at SCDsource, it has [...]
What a charming little book! If that sounds in any ways demeaning, then that is not at all what is meant. A few weeks ago, Ray Salemi, an applications engineering consultant from Mentor Graphics, sent me a pre-publication copy of his new book entitled “FPGA Simulation. A complete Step-by-Step Guide.” Most books set out [...]
In a recent Synopsys press release they talked about the advances that they were making in their Confirma™ and CHIPit® product lines. Clive Maxfield did an excellent write-up of this in Programmable Logic DesignLine which I will not repeat here. Along with the press release, Synopsys also sent out a number of frequently asked [...]
When OSCI came out with TLM 1.0, the industry almost laughed at it. It did nothing to help alleviate the problems of interconnecting IP described at abstractions above the RTL level. Then last year, TLM 2.0 was released. The industry response was “too little, too late” and most IP vendors and EDA companies said [...]
The squeeze would appear to be on for start-up companies. In the last few days Mentor has acquired Agility to consolidate their position in the behavioral synthesis market; Doulog has acquired Beach to expand their capabilities in the system integration business; I know of two other companies that will be tying the knot very soon [...]
I am excited today to be able to talk about a new product that I had to keep quiet about for some time. First of all some disclosure. I am on the Technical Advisory Board of Jasper Design Automation and it was associated with that role that I first learned about some developments that they [...]
I have just received my program guide for DVCon and let’s just say I was less than happy with what I saw. DVCon had been building into a nice conference that had many useful papers. As I started to read through the program for this year, I started to see lots of papers from the [...]
Over the past couple of years, I have sensed a growing dissatisfaction with constrained random stimulus generation techniques. I have written about this in several articles, including “Constrained random test struggles to live up to promises” in SCDSource. While this remains a workhorse for large parts of the verification problem, it is [...]
