Brian Bailey of Semiconductor Engineering recently got several experts together for a round table discussion entitled:

The role of system-level verification is not the same as block-level verification and requires different ways to think about the problem.

The experts included Larry Lapides of Imperas, and also staff from Cadence, Mentor, and Breker Verification.

The discussion started with reflection on a keynote at DVCon this year that Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, gave. He said that if you pull together a bunch of pre-verified IP blocks, it does not change the verification problem at the system level. That sounds like a problem...

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The challenge yesterday, today and tomorrow in technology is for people to move more towards the software and away from a strictly hardware-centric point of view

Peggy Aycinena is a freelance journalist and Editor of EDA Confidential at www.aycinena.com. She can be reached at peggy at aycinena dot com. In December Peggy interviewed Simon Davidmann, Imperas CEO, on his views for an article on EDACafe.

Simon Davidmann and the Imperas team are based near Oxford in the UK. Nonetheless, Davidmann is a regular at Silicon Valley events throughout the year.

I spoke with Davidmann during one of his recent visits to Northern California. Per usual, the conversation was unscripted and…

Software running close to the silicon hardware still presents many challenges for designs in terms of memory footprint optimization and security vulnerability

John Blyler, Editorial Director, of JB Systems wrote an interesting article on the challenges of embedded software.

Many former semiconductor chip tool vendors no longer frequent board-level embedded software shows. Instead, these companies are returning to conferences where the software lies closer to the silicon hardware. These companies – often in the simulation space – have found they have more in common with the chip industry than the embedded systems market and are returning to shows like ARM Techcon, Renesas Devcon and the like.

It’s no secret that the EDA tool vendors and semiconductor chip…

EDAC must become an industry organization that looks after all of the companies within the circle of technologies involved in electronic product design

Peggy Aycinena is a freelance journalist and Editor of EDA Confidential at www.aycinena.com. She can be reached at peggy at aycinena dot com. In October Peggy interviewed Simon on his views for an article on EDACafe.

Simon Davidmann, Imperas CEO, has been thinking about the EDA industry for a while, and the consortium that represents it. And like a lot of observers, he thinks change is in the air. In previous blogs, I myself have predicted that EDAC will evolve to offer better representation to IP providers, but Davidmann believes changes…

Development tools are important in all stages of the embedded design process, and research is no exception.

Monique Devoe, Managing Editor of Embedded Computing Design has been following Imperas and sees how important interaction between industry and academia is when it comes to access to leading edge tools.

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Within the prpl Foundation Security Working Group, Imperas is providing solutions for embedded hypervisor/OS developers.

Simon Davidmann, Imperas CEO wrote a guest blog for RTC Magazine. RTC Magazine focusses on Embedded Computing and includes information for both hardware and software developers of embedded systems.

The article is about the security of embedded systems and what the prpl Foundation is doing about it, and what its Security Working Group is focussed on.

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In a recent visit to SIlicon Valley, Simon Davidmann, President and CEO of Imperas, visits the studio to chat with Warren. Simon shares his passion for improving productivity in design and verification, solving problems that engineers care about, and more

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Imperas’ CEO discusses challenges with software development and how things need to change.

Ann Steffora Mutschler sat down with Simon Davidmann, Imperas CEO, and discussed what software engineers want, software development challenges, software reuse, and software quality

The discussion was around five questions:

• What do software engineers want today?
• What are some of the biggest challenges that software engineers face today?
• What about the notion of software reuse?
• How can software be developed with a higher level of confidence that…

In this article, Gabe Moretti is challenging us to move Design and Verification closer. Design and Verification are often mentioned in the same sentence but too often they remain disciplines kept apart from each other. The article talks about EDA but brings in the complexity of modern systems including so much software.

There are interesting views from Synopsys and Oski Technology, and Larry Lapides from Imperas discusses the challenge and outlines observations on how developing embedded software will change.

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