Embedded

How virtual prototypes aid SoC hardware design

The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...
EDN

The five facets of SoC design complexity

“Digital convergence” is creating demand for functionally complex ICs in six-nine month design cycles at mass-market costs. On the one hand, increased capital investments in the late 1990s have seen ...
Electronic Design

Environment Speeds Platform-Based SoC Design And Verification

Getting the most from system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs requires optimal design of the logic surrounding the embedded processor. As SoCs have increased in complexity, optimizing the interfaces between ...
EDN

Getting the most from multiprocessor SoC design

For many applications, allocating performance among all of the tasks in a system-on-chip (SoC) design is much easier and provides greater design flexibility with multiple CPUs than with just one ...
Embedded

Reducing signoff corners to achieve faster 40 nm SOC design closure

In the race to achieve high design performance and stringent power requirements, the VLSI world is moving quickly down the scaling curve to process technologies that ...