Today all chip designs begin as lines of code. The code is written at a high level, hiding much of the complexity from the designer, and then synthesized into a low-level description for layout and ...

A panel of industry experts takes a sneak peek at system-level design challenges in EVs and outlines viable solutions.

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Vendor lock-in is often described as an unfortunate side effect of modern software. In reality, it is frequently a design ...

About 15 years ago, the assumption in the EDA industry was that system design would be inevitable. The transition from gate-level design to a new entry point at the register transfer level (RTL) ...

Used to perform FMEA, Software FMEA/HAZOP, DFA, and cybersecurity threat analysis, the software has embedded knowledge about likely system level problems that helps detect design issues early, for ...

What does it take to design a software system that doesn’t crumble under the weight of its own complexity? For many developers, the challenge of architecting large-scale software projects lies in ...

Software engineering applications are practically unlimited. In fact, software engineering has grown so fast in the last several decades that it has become tightly connected with all other areas of ...

Every good hardware or software design starts with a structured approach throughout the design cycle, but as chip architectures and applications begin focusing on specific domains and include some ...