Taken for Granted

One of the statements that is repeatedly made about design goes something like this: 80% of the (performance/cost/energy consumption/your favourite product metric) of a design is determined in the first 20% of the design (time/effort/your favourite design process metric). This of course, is a simple variation of the well known 80-20 rule, (often called the [...]

On Tuesday December 9 2008 there was a webcast on ESL hosted by John Miklosz, editor of SoC Central, and featuring four speakers from various EDA and ESL companies: Frank Schirrmeister of Synopsys Glenn Perry of Mentor Graphics Johannes Stahl of CoWare Mike McNamara of Cadence Each of them gives an overview of ESL as [...]