The upcoming Design Automation Conference, June 8-13, in Anaheim, California, will be a good chance for people to catch up with what is going on in the ESL and processor-based design areas. My dance card is beginning to get full, and like all good conferences, there is so much going on in parallel that [...]
I’ve been working in and observing the field of “virtual system prototypes” (the term coined by Graham Hellestrand several years ago - see his “The Revolution in System Engineering“, IEEE Spectrum, September, 1999) or “virtual platforms” (the current term most widely used) for a few years now. In my opinion and by observation, [...]
Many people are familiar with Salvador Dali’s painting, The Persistence of Memory:
When I look at developments in ESL, I sometimes think of the painting and its title. Some of the old ideas in ESL must be good ones because they keep coming back. ESL synthesis, for example, has now been through [...]
I’m sitting here at the Electronic Design Process Symposium 2008 in Monterey after a fascinating morning session on multicore, manycore, MPSoC, SMP, AMP and the like, in which my colleague Steve Leibson and I participated. Together with impressions from attending the MultiCore Expo in Santa Clara a couple of weeks ago, the discussion, [...]
About 30 years ago (!!!!) I worked for Burroughs in Scotland. (Some of you may remember it…….designed and built computers. After merging with Sperry, it became Unisys). Here I was introduced to the grand institution of the local: i.e., the pub just up the way. Our works local [...]
Hello, and welcome to my first blog post on the Chip Design website. Thanks for John Blyler and his colleagues for setting this up. For my first post, I want to talk a bit about whether ESL has standardised on one approach. As always, I welcome your comments! I [...]