February 6, 2019
UPF provides a useful way to describe the power-management strategies that should be applied to a design, but using it introduces a number of challenges during low-power debugging.
June 18, 2018
Andy Ladd highlights the wide range of peak-power concerns around plugged-in devices.
October 30, 2017
How emulation was used to debug out-of-spec power on a multicore ARM design using the AXI bus.
February 8, 2017
SSD controllers are becoming increasingly complex and as a result emulation is now the first choice for SSD verification. But your strategy must still meet five key criteria.
January 12, 2016
Many IoT applications have a very strict energy budget. SoC designers targeting the IoT have to trade off providing the features that the market demands with the power budget the applications demand. What are their options?
December 9, 2015
More protocols, multibillion-gate designs, minimized power, burgeoning software and, for networking, hundreds of switch and router ports emphasize the need for scalable, virtualized emulation.
December 1, 2014
Formal techniques can be applied to various parts of the verification challenge, including low-power and clock domain-crossing issues
July 20, 2014
The argument for an integrated approach to SoC verification
February 4, 2014
The fourth installment discusses the extra levels of debug capability available when using virtual prototypes through the example of an ARM big.LITTLE-based embedded system.
December 16, 2013
Continuing our series on high-level synthesis (HLS) for low power design. Part Two details how HLS helps you make and evaluate architectural decisions.