Electronic Design

High-Level Design In EDA—Quo Vadis? (Or, Where Are You Going?)

I remember the moment I first realized that the EDA industry was on the dawn of a major transition, in my case from gates to RTL. My colleague Robert was cursing, because he was convinced this new ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Design Reuse Vs. Abstraction

IP reuse has reduced the urgency for a higher level of abstraction in complex system-level design, but that still could change. Chip designers have been constantly searching for a hardware description ...
Semiconductor Engineering

What’s Next In System-Level Design?

Experts At The Table: EDA has undergone numerous workflow changes over time. Different skill sets have come into play over the years, and at times this changed the definition of what it means to ...
Purdue University

In Print: ‘Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach’

Lauded for avoiding the typical vague, high-level survey approach found in many texts, earlier editions of this bestselling book removed the mystery by explaining the internal structure of an ...
EDN

System-level design language arrives

Santa Cruz, Calif. — A modeling language that can represent every aspect of an electronic system–including software and electrical or mechanical hardware–has long seemed an impossible dream. But ...
EDN

EDN Access — 5.09.96 LPMs: High-level design uses low-level technique

Adding LPMs to your design allows you to adopt a high-level methodology using low-level techniques. So many design tools are available that you might question the need for yet another one. However, a ...
Electronic Design

High-Level Design In EDA—Quo Vadis? (Or, Where Are You Going?)

Contributing Editor Frank Schirrmeister examines the historical shifts in the EDA industry, from layout to transistors to gates to RTL, with an eye on what may be next, including electronic-system ...