hardware-software co-design

At the recent VLSI Symposium, Google vice president Parthasarathy Ranganathan described the importance of co-design and the software stack in its data-center designs.

Three EDA vendors team up to create stronger verification flow for RISC-V processor implementations.

High-level synthesis is playing another important role in the matching of AI algorithms to necessarily application-specific designs.

Cadence Design Systems has agreed to buy the AWR RF-design company from its current owner National Instruments for approximately $160m.

The automotive market faces challenges that make it a prime candidate for the greater use of high-level synthesis on designs with AI and ML content.

Do the synapses in the human brain offer a new model for the design flow in a Smart Everything world?

Carbon Design Systems has introduced a web portal to streamline the process of finding the most appropriate executable models for a system-level virtual prototype.

Cadence Design Systems has developed an FPGA-based prototyping system that takes advantage of much closer alignment with its existing Palladium XP emulator to accelerate bring-up and support debugging across both platforms.

The first in a series of articles on how various vendors are addressing the flow's most challenging task looks at Mentor's strategy for emulation.