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 ...

Before there was a mainstream open standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) like RISC-V, a computer processor's software/hardware interface was generally defined by processor architects. The ...

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 ...

Designing hardware and software simultaneously is a key factor in reducing time-to-market. Although some vendors are talking about tools to facilitate the task, we still have a long way to go before ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The SoC design world is full of challenges and unforeseeable hurdles, especially for protocol developers and early ...

As technology moves toward System-on-a-Chip (SoC) integration, the missing links between system-level specification and design implementation will have a major impact on the designer’s productivity ...

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 ...

Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. announced the newest edition of its CoDeveloper” C to RTL design tools, which adds support for Altera's SOPC Builder and the Quartus II, Version 4.1 design ...

Here on Hackaday, we’re generally designers of hacks that live in the real world. Nevertheless, I’m convinced that some of the most interesting feats are at the mercy of what’s possible in software, ...

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