Most of today's system-on-chip (SoC) designs rely on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as a way to accelerate verification, start software development early and validate the whole system before ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Agere Systems is working with San Jose, California-based Cadence Design Systems Inc. to provide Agere ASIC customers with access to Cadence's “First Encounter” EDA software. This is ...

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to explore partitioning with Raymond Nijssen, vice president of system engineering at Achronix; Andy Ladd, CEO at Baum; Dave Kelf, chief marketing officer at Breker; ...

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for ASIC and FPGA designs, has unveiled the latest release of its HES-DVM™ ...

With up to 21 Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, the CHIPit Platinum V5 prototyping system can handle ASIC and system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs of up to 28 Mgates. The system targets users who need early hardware ...

Building an optimal implementation of a system using a functional description has been an industry goal for a long time, but it has proven to be much more difficult than it sounds. The general idea is ...

With the emergence of 90-nm process technology, ASIC designers get to explore uncharted levels of performance and density. However, it has also unleashed a slew of challenging design-integrity issues, ...