June 2008

June 1, 2008

VHDL moves toward 4.0

Version 4.0 of the VHSIC Hardware Design Language was approved by Accellera and passed to the IEEE to begin its formal standards balloting process earlier this year. The article previews some of the key additions and extensions that form part of VHDL in the following areas: Property Specification Language Intellectual Property Protection Hierarchical names Extensions […]

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June 1, 2008

Using Open Virtual Platforms to build, simulate and debug multiprocessor SoCs

The Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) initiative aims to help resolve the difficulties that arise today when modeling multicore systems-on-chip (SoC) so that designers can perform early and timely test of the embedded software that will run on the end devices. As architects continue to add more cores to meet hardware design goals, the complexity of […]

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