System-Level Design sat down with Frank Schirrmeister, director of product development in Synopsys’ solutions group; Ghislain Kaiser CEO of DOCEA Power: John Sanguinetti, CTO at Forte Design Systems; Vincent Perrier, Cofluent Design co-founder and director of products and marketing.
Oct 28, 2009

At least for the last decade, we have been hearing about the worlds of embedded software and hardware growing closer, but there has been very little measurable evidence to back up those claims. Some results confirmed what market researchers had predicted: the percentage of users claiming that their overall software effort was ....
Jul 29, 2009

We’ve all heard it, and it’s said in many ways. Preparation is everything! System-level design is all about thinking early and implementing later. So why not apply what we already know? We even have statistics.
Mar 11, 2009

The debate about design at the electronic system level (ESL) seems to be in full swing again. Some claim there is too much “stuff” in ESL and basically suggest incremental approaches. Others say that today’s approaches aren’t visionary enough and are calling for the “real ESL to please stand up.”
Feb 12, 2009

There's a buzz about system-level design, specifically around ESL, centering around which technologies should be considered part of ESL. Some system-level advocates suggest limiting ESL to the next step above hardware. Others say it encompasses many techniques, which only have in common the fact that they are applied prior to RTL.
Jan 21, 2009

SystemC: Now open for embedded software. This article reviews the key technology components of the SystemC TLM-2.0 specification and their impact on embedded software designers using virtual platforms.
Dec 09, 2008

Over the last couple of years the new reality has set in that software development is becoming increasingly important because it determines both the cost and the associated chip-design schedule.
Sep 30, 2008

Design for low power is equally important to optimizing energy consumption, especially in mobile devices. While power is a measurement at a specific point in time, its limits clearly define which functions in a design can run in parallel.
Aug 01, 2008

During the past three decades, the mainstream design entry for semiconductor-design has steadily evolved from layout, to transistors, to gates, and, most recently, to the register-transfer level (RTL).
May 12, 2008