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Continuous design innovation adds to verification complexity, and pushes more companies to actually do it.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

The RISC-V ecosystem is struggling to keep pace with rapid innovation and customization, which is increasing the amount of verification work required for each design and spreading that work out across more engineers at more companies.

The historical assumption is that verification represents 60% to 80% or more of SoC project effort in…

Provides building blocks for RISC-V processor DV with free simulator, architectural validation test suites and SystemVerilog components for evolving Verification Ecosystem.

RISC-V Verification IP from Imperas

 

Oxford, UK – December 9th, 2020Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in RISC-V processor verification solutions, today announced significant enhancements to its RISC-V processor hardware design verification solutions. This release includes enhanced…

RISC-V processor verification using SystemVerilog UVM test bench with step-and-compare between reference and RTL for dynamic testcase scenarios with coverage analysis.

Imperas RISC-V Reference Model

 

Oxford, UK – December 8th, 2020Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in RISC-V processor verification technology, today confirmed the selection by Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) of the Imperas RISC-V reference model as part of their RISC-V…

riscvOVPsimPlus™ includes latest reference model and now offers expanded simulation features for debug & trace for early software development and hardware verification.

riscvOVPsimPlus

Oxford, UK – December 4th, 2020Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in RISC-V processor verification solutions, today announced that the Free riscvOVPsimPlus™ RISC-V reference model and simulator, which has been widely adopted across the RISC-V…

Andes and Imperas Custom Instruction Flow Diagram

 

Hsinchu, Taiwan and Oxford, UK – December 3rd, 2020Andes Technology Corp., a leading supplier of performance-efficient and extensible 32/64-bit RISC-V CPU cores and a Founding Premier member of the RISC-V International Association, and Imperas Software Ltd., a leader in high-performance software simulation and virtual platforms, announced today to extend their cooperation to the versatile…

Uses, challenges and tradeoffs in working with vector engines.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

A search is underway across the industry to find the best way to speed up machine learning applications, and optimizing hardware for vector instructions is gaining traction as a key element in that effort.
Vector instructions are a class of instructions that enable parallel processing of data sets. An entire array of integers or floating point numbers is processed in a single…

The art of ISA design is the fine balance between gaining performance advantages and enhanced usability

Design & Reuse

The topic of RISC-V custom instructions is growing in importance. This article explains why this subject is becoming so significant, and outlines some of the previous approaches to processor hardware and software optimization to illustrate the techniques that are now possible with RISC-V.…

Simulation is no longer up to the task of system-level verification, but making the switch to hardware-assisted verification can lead to some surprises if you do not fully plan ahead.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

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, time, and effort, and even then not everyone gets it right.…

riscvOVPsim™ updated for the latest RISC-V Vector Instructions Specification, for coverage-based DV methodologies with Verification IP for architectural validation

riscvOVPsim Imperas RISC-V reference model for vector extensions

Oxford, United Kingdom, October 15th, 2020 — Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in virtual platforms and high-performance software simulation, today announced…