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It may not be the most glamorous type of software development, but getting it right is essential for the success of any hardware platform.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

Hardware and software are two sides of the same coin, but they often live in different worlds. In the past, hardware and software rarely were designed together, and many companies and products failed because the total solution was unable to deliver.
The big question is…

Challenges are changing for engineering teams, and they are crossing traditional boundaries.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

Chip reliability is coming under much tighter scrutiny as IC-driven systems take on increasingly critical and complex roles. So whether it’s a stray alpha particle that flips a memory bit, or some long-dormant software bugs or latent hardware defects that suddenly cause problems, it’s now up to the chip industry to prevent these problems in the first place, and…

Efficient Trace, Supervisor Binary Interface, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, and Zmmul Multiply-Only Extension Accelerate Embedded- and Large-System Design.

RISC-V International

 

Nuremberg, Germany – June 21, 2022 – RISC-V International, the global open-design standards pioneer, announced its first four specification and extension approvals of 2022 – Efficient…

Quality goals achieved with functional verification through member collaboration in the OpenHW verification working group using leading commercial tools and RVVI methodology

OpenHW CV32E40P RISC-V Verification with Imperas

Oxford, United Kingdom – June 21st, 2022 – Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in RISC-V simulation solutions, congratulates the OpenHW Group on the announcement of the CORE-V MCU Dev/Kit project based on the high-…

Design IP has played a pivotal role in the creation of today’s complex SoC, but that role keeps changing. Each change places new demands on IP suppliers.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

The design IP industry is developing an assortment of new options and licensing schemes that could affect everything from how semiconductor companies collaborate to how ICs are designed, packaged, and brought to market.
The IP market already has witnessed a sweeping shift from a “…

There are at least three architectural layers to processor design, each of which plays a significant role.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because the role of each of the layers must be both understood and balanced.
The first level of potential optimization is at the system…

Dependencies and partitioning can turn a simple piece of code into a complex system challenge.

Semiconductor Engineering

 

Embedded software, once a challenge to write, update, and optimize, is following the route of other types of software. It is abstracted, simpler to use, and much faster to write. But in some cases, it’s also much harder to get right.
From a conceptual level, the general definition of embedded software has not changed much. It’s still…

Imperas RISC-V Reference Model, Test suites and Verification IP for advanced ‘lock-step-compare’ Processor Verification including Asynchronous events and Coverage Analysis

NSITEXE and Imperas

Oxford, United Kingdom – May 24th, 2022 – Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in RISC-V simulation solutions, today announced that NSITEXE, Inc., a group company of the DENSO Corporation that develops and sells high-performance semiconductor IP for automotive applications, has selected

Is it possible to make a design change and not have to rerun the entire regression suite?

Semiconductor Engineering

 

Verification consumes more time and resources than design, and yet little headway is being made to optimize it. The reasons are complex, and there are more questions than there are answers. For example, what is the minimum verification required to gain confidence in a design change? How can you minimize the cost of finding out that the change was bad…