With deep sub-micron technology, chip designers are expected to create System-On-Chip (SOC) solutions by connecting different Intellectual Property (IP) blocks using efficient and reliable ...

Designing the hardware-software interface. Dealing with "bytes enables" in RTL verification. Automating the HSI design process across the entire dev team. The hardware-software interface (HSI) holds ...

Although Moore’s Law, in principle, enables a huge number of components to be integrated into a single chip, design methods that will allow system architects to put the components together to ...

HSI is a critical capability that now has the full attention of the Accellera PSWG and whose absence results in extra work for companies that want to adopt Portable Stimulus tools without some form of ...

In today’s semiconductor landscape, scale is becoming a bigger battleground—not only for chipmakers, but increasingly for hyperscalers, cloud giants, and other systems companies, too. They're all ...

From the earliest days of my career, when designing chips, I have always navigated the interface between hardware and software for semiconductor design in my roles. My initial chip designs included ...

Hardware/Software Co-Verification is typically performed at a low level of abstraction, using an Instruction Set Simulation (ISS) model of a CPU in conjunction with a Verilog or VHDL model of the rest ...

CAMBRIDGE, England — RISC microprocessor design vendor ARM Holdings plc said Monday (September 29, 2003) that it has defined an interface to digital signal processing cores with LSI Logic Corp. and ...

When Toyota was forced to recall thousands of its vehicles after a spate of accidents and unexplained surges in acceleration, suspicion soon fell on the electronic controllers and the software that ...