The shrinking process geometries are enabling to build more complex SoCs, which has higher risk of re-spins. The FPGA prototyping is an efficient approach to perform pre-silicon SoC validation, ...

The Blue Pearl Software Suite works with the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite running on Windows platforms. It includes linting, CDC analysis and automatic SDC generation. Its generated SDCs automate the ...

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have provided developers with flexibility. Recently, FPGAs have incorporated system-on-chip (SoC) microprocessors such 64-bit, ARM Cortex-A57 cores. This ...

The practice of retargeting an existing design from one FPGA technology to another has received a lot of attention. Why should design teams consider this strategy? By Sreedhar Mallela. Recent supply ...

Systems designers have long sought to provide programmability and flexibility in their systems designs to meet varying customer needs and evolving standards. The two most common approaches – FPGAs and ...

Maybe you're an ASIC designer forced by short product lifecycles to move into FPGAs. Or perhaps you're a team leader whose latest project requires chip-level integration, and an FPGA implementation ...

Traditional ASIC and IP verification methods cannot adequately exercise the hardware and software components of today's designs. This is due to tool performance limitations, which impose a bottleneck ...

When you think about it, logic synthesis is a vital but rather intimidating part of modern chip design. This process takes a high-level description of intended functionality, written in an RTL ...

The more we know about the bigger picture, context, historical and projected trends, or simply how other people do the same thing we do, the more efficiently and successfully we can do our specific ...