Last week, I wrote several blog entries that discussed old and obsolete ideas contained in the popular and successful Reuse Methodology Manual (the RMM), which ushered in the SOC era back in 1997. I ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In today’s complex system-on-chip (SoC) design flows, intellectual property (IP) blocks are everywhere—licensed from third parties, leveraged from internal libraries, or hand-crafted by expert teams.

Vehicles can do much more than they were capable of a decade ago. Today’s modern connected vehicles have many convenient capabilities, from lane departure warnings to automated braking and ...

Value in design prototyping using FPGAs. Validating the design with firmware. How the process works. Identifying companies with the right experience and expertise in FPGA and design prototyping ...