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SemiEng: Incremental Design Breakdown

How much value comes from reuse? While still a necessary part of most companies’ methodologies, the advantages are diminishing.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

For the past two decades, most designs have been incremental in nature. They heavily leveraged IP used in previous designs, and that IP often was developed by third parties. But there are growing problems with that methodology, especially at advanced nodes where back-end issues and the impact of ‘shift left’ are reducing the savings from reuse…

 

To read the full Semiconductor Engineering article by Brian Bailey, click here.


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Related Resources

There are many Imperas documents available. Some of them are accessed only from the Imperas User site and are available only to Imperas customers under license.

On the OVPworld website there are many documents that introduce the various APIs and technologies developed by Imperas and made available as part of Open Virtual Platforms. Click here for the OVPworld documentation list.

Publicly available Imperas documents:

Using OVP Fast Processor Models with OVPsim and other simulators

RISC-V Custom Instruction Flow Application Note

RISC-V Processor Verification: ImperasDV with Synopsys VCS and Verdi Application Note

Comments

  • Philippe Berger, CEO

    Dolphin Design

    Our verification methodology for the Panther DSP/AI Accelerator IP needs to address not just the full range of the current configuration options but also the roadmap for Panther. 

    ImperasDV is the cornerstone of our simulation-based DV strategy, with the Imperas golden reference model, scoreboard, verification IP, functional coverage analysis and debug efficiency.

  • Chris Porthouse, Chief Product Officer

    Imagination Technologies

    The pace of innovation in markets such as the latest 5G communication networks and infrastructure offers many opportunities for new domain-specific SoC solutions.

    As a leading supplier of silicon IP, we fully appreciate the role of the ecosystem in supporting our lead customers in delivering new devices to market. We are pleased Imperas have now released the first Catapult RISC-V CPU Imperas reference model for the IMG RTXM-2200, which provides our mutual customers a proven path to accelerate projects to market.