Last week, I wrote several blog entries that discussed old and obsolete ideas contained in the popular and successful Reuse Methodology Manual (the RMM), which ushered in the SOC era back in 1997. I ...

At the intersection of hardware and software architecture, embedded systems are integral in applications including smart devices, wearables, autonomous systems, security and defense technologies, ...

Today platform-FPGAs are fabricated in nanometer technologies with multi-million gate densities; hard/soft macros such as embedded processors, RAMs, multipliers, DSP blocks, analog cells and high ...

The International Standards Organization (ISO) has created a set of quality standards known as ISO 9000, created to apply to a broad range of industries, including but not limited to embedded hardware ...

Here we are, back in New Orleans for another Design Automation Conference. Most DAC visitors arrive in “tool-browsing” mode, casually looking for a faster simulator, more accurate timing extractor or ...

ESL is emerging as viable – indeed necessary – part of the SoC design process. The viability is being driven by the emergence and adoption of industry-wide standards. Key to enabling ESL design ...