The concept of system architectural definition at a level of abstraction higher than RTL is a good one. Such methodologies become much more feasible as tools roll out in support. To that end, Synopsys ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — SystemC is seeing increasing use as a way of accelerating simulation, according to speakers at the DVCon Design and Verification Conference. Meanwhile, speakers noted important ...

In this paper, we present a fast method which allows connecting together SystemC modules. These modules may be specified at different abstraction levels, and we obtain an executable simulation model ...

An ever increasing demand for execution speed and communication bandwidth has made the multi-processor SoCs a common design trend in today’s computation and communication architectures. Design and ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Proclaiming a significant step forward for C-language design, Synopsys Inc. will announce on Monday (Feb. 11) a complete SystemC simulation environment. It's already been put ...

Power consumption is often more important than performance in today’s SoC designs because of battery size and power dissipation limitations. The dilemma is that the most leverage available to optimize ...

San Jose, CA , June 1, 2004 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and CoWare(R) Inc., the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software and services, announced the ...

In order to perform architectural exploration, performance analysis and optimization, early validation of software, improved productivity in hardware development and many other tasks, the industry ...

High-level design (HLD) represents a hardware design at a more abstract level than register transfer level (RTL). A high-level synthesis (HLS) tool then can be used to produce the RTL necessary to ...

Typically, verication is done by synthesising RTL and running it to see how well it performs against the performance specification that were defined at the start of the design. By adjusting the design ...