Aiming to bring advanced verification languages like SystemVerilog and advanced methods like assertion-based verification to mainstream IC designers, Mentor Graphics this week is introducing its new ...

Four years ago, as the semiconductor industry process technology crossed below 193 nanometers, the number of transistors available to a design team made it necessary to explore new design methods at a ...

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its ...

A sure sign that a design language is making its way into the mainstream is the appearance of a spate of tools supporting it. For SystemVerilog devotees, the latest good news is the commercial ...

FIFO (First In First Out) is a buffer that stores data in a way that data stored first comes out of the buffer first. Asynchronous FIFO is most widely used in the System-on-Chip (SoC) designs for data ...

Survey hardware design teams and you’ll find that the old saw is true: anywhere from 60% to 80% of the overall design cycle is consumed not with design itself, but rather with the nerve-wracking ...

Hundreds of variations of open-source CPUs written in an HDL seem to float around the internet these days (and that’s a great thing). Many are RISC-V, an open-source instruction set (ISA), and are ...