Emulation is emerging as the tool of choice for complex and large designs, but companies that swap from simulation to emulation increasingly recognize this is not an easy transition. It requires money ...

A quick glance in today’s design verification toolbox reveals a variety of point tools supporting the latest system-on-chip (SoC) design development. Combined and reinforced by effective verification ...

The EDA industry has evolved into a case study on specialization. This was not true in the early days, when the MDV (Mentor, Daisy, Valid) trio dashed onto the world stage. All three were one-stop ...

With the remarkable surge in demand for connectivity, the internet has become the communications highway for billions of users. According to “Internet Live Stats,” 4.2 billion people traveled the ...

In software development, perhaps the most critical, yet least predictable stage in the process is debugging. Of the many factors that come into play when debugging software applications, time is of ...