As the VLSI process technology continuously advances, the System-on-Chip (SoC) design methodology has become a main design trend for semiconductor products. A single ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Noted EDA author J. Bhasker, architect at eSilicon, has turned his attention toward SystemC in his latest book, A SystemC Primer. The textbook provides an overview of the language and ...

It is widely accepted that system verification is the most imposing obstacle to meeting time-to-market schedules. Now, the verification process has become even more time-consuming and expensive. These ...

In order to perform architectural exploration, performance analysis and optimization, early validation of software, improved productivity in hardware development and many other tasks, the industry ...

SystemC came about because of the need to model systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). SoCs require concurrent modeling of hardware and software, increasing complexity to a level that could not be managed any ...

Implementing advanced temporal assertions in SystemC is an error prone process due to the limited assertion capabilities of the class library. Current approaches ...