Semiconductor Engineering

RTL Design-for-Power In Mobile SoCs

If you are one of the more than 2 billion smartphone users today, it is hard to imagine life without one! Breaking new frontiers, wearable smart devices and the Internet of things are the latest buzz.
EDN

Defining the TLM-to-RTL Design Flow

As System-on-Chip (SoC) designs grow ever larger, design and verification flows are changing. A rich mix of features, increased software content, high intellectual property (IP) use and submicron ...
EDN

Leveraging system models for RTL functional verification

Register transfer level (RTL) verification remains the bottleneck in digital hardware design. Industry surveys show that functional verification accounts for 70 percent of the total design effort. Yet ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Do You Know For Sure Your RISC-V RTL Doesn’t Contain Any Surprises?

Given the relative novelty and complexity of RISC-V RTL designs, whether you are buying a commercially supported core or downloading a popular open-source offering, there is the small but non-zero ...
Electronic Design

Processor Design Tools Generate C Compiler, RTL

Interest in creating programmable intellectual property (IP), especially embedded processors or application-specific IP (ASIPs), continues to rise as tools that overcome its hurdles emerge. The latest ...