IP companies have heralded a new age in platform-based design for years – ever since semiconductor integration capacity reached the point where entire systems could theoretically be integrated into a ...

Advances in both the physical properties of chips and in design tools allow us build huge systems into “just a few” square millimeters. The problem is that modeling these systems at the ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- May 20, 2008-- EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, will showcase an expanded library of standard transactors and a new custom transactor development tool ...

With design complexity always on the rise and an increasing amount of embedded software encapsulation in designs today, engineering teams need to be concerned with power consumption in the initial ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced that the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board ...

After many years of expectation, we're finally seeing increased use of generally usable methods of hardware design at an abstraction level higher than RTL. This is more than just behavioral level, as ...

Transaction-level modeling (TLM) verification methodologies are propagating down from power users, such as large systems houses and integrated device manufacturers, to the broader design community. As ...

PORTLAND, ORE — April 11, 2006 — Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced the availability of the SystemC Transaction Level Monitor (TLM) Channel version 2.1.2. The ...

SLD: How long has NXP designed at the system-level for production chips? Frans Theeuwen: It depends on what you call ‘system-level design.’ We have been doing hardware/software co-verification ...