The VLSI design cycle is partitioned into two phases i.e. front-end and back-end phases of the complete SoC design cycle. While at front-end, most of the architectural specifications, coding and ...
Register transfer level (RTL) verification remains the bottleneck in digital hardware design. Industry surveys show that functional verification accounts for 70 percent of the total design effort. Yet ...
IO libraries and interface IPs are an important part of any integrated circuit design that needs to communicate with the outside world or other integrated circuits. Interface IPs are the literal ...
Checking functional equivalency between system-level models expressed in SystemC or C/C++ and their corresponding RTL representations is an important step toward making the high-level models useful in ...
Some years ago, back in 2005 to be specific, the project was a power supply for a low Earth orbiting satellite. Part of our digital circuitry involved some logic gating using Exclusive-OR (Ex-OR) ...
Moving untimed C++ design descriptions through a High-Level Synthesis (HLS) flow, designers wonder if the generated, timed RTL is functionally equivalent to the original, high-level description. When ...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2017 – Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the Cadence® Conformal® Smart Logic Equivalence Checker (LEC), the next-generation equivalence checking ...