EDN

An FPGA primer for ASIC designers

With the advent of new technologies in IC design and complexity of the business models, chip designers may want to explore different choices available to them for implementation. ASICs have been the ...
EDN

Adapting ASIC techniques for FPGAs

FPGAs now deliver ASIC-like density and performance, and their flexibility and operational characteristics offer distinct advantages. As innovative architectures with embedded processors, memory ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Synopsys FPGA Platform: Enabling Faster Design, Verification and Debug of FPGAs

FPGA development teams are adopting ASIC-style design, verification and debug methodologies. Here are the necessary elements of such a flow. September 11th, 2019 - By: Synopsys Field programmable gate ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA And System Designs Get To Market Faster Leveraging ASIC-Proven Analysis Tools

Digital systems need clocks. Today’s designs require more from clocking schemes than ever before, and it’s likely this trend will continue. Increasing power constraints have resulted in finer-grained ...
Business Wire

Aldec Cuts ASIC Design Prototype Bring-Up Time with HES-DVM’s Automatic Partitioning Tool and Faster HDL-to-FPGA Compilation Times

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for ASIC and FPGA designs, has introduced automatic FPGA partitioning to ...
Embedded

The four Rs of efficient system design

New design languages and new chips and systems mean a whole new set of design gotchas for today's developers. Once-simple tasks become difficult and, thankfully, once-difficult tasks become easy. This ...
Business Wire

Aldec Introduces Hardware Assisted RTL Simulation Acceleration for Microchip FPGA Designs

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed-HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for ASIC and FPGA designs, has introduced a HES-DVM™ simulation ...
Electronic Design

Facing Up To Today’s FPGA Verification Challenges

Fifteen years ago verification of FPGA designs was easy but as the size of FPGAs has increased so have the verification challenges, Jerry Kaczynski explains. Today it is not unusual for FPGA users to ...
Ars Technica

Breaking into ASIC Design/Verification

I'm fast approaching the one year mark with my current employer since I graduated last year. Previously, I did three four month work terms with them and they were for the most part interesting. I took ...
Design-Reuse

Actel Delivers Secure, Comprehensive Design Flow for Complex FPGA Development Using ARM7 Family Processor

Company's Libero IDE Also Bolsters Industry-Leading Static Timing Analysis and I/O Capabilities MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov 02, 2005-- Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today unveiled significant new ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Design Flow Takes Simulink Code Into Synthesis

Thanks to collaboration between The MathWorks and Mentor Graphics, MathWorks’ Simulink HDL Coder users gain a smooth path into synthesis. Mentor’s Precision Synthesis tool now supports HDL generated ...
Design News

Is Platypus from Zero ASIC the FPGA equivalent to RISC-V?

Before I tell you what I’m about to tell you, let’s first refresh our minds as to RISC-V processors. Why? Well, because even though what I’m about to tell you has nothing to do with RISC-V per se, in ...