EDN

RTL synthesis support is downloadable

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the immediate availability of the Mentor Graphics Precision RTL synthesis tool for customer use. Precision RTL synthesis was added to the Lattice ispLEVER ...
EDN

Exploring new design flows — RTL synthesis

Editor's Note: In Part 2 of this series,consultant and ASIC designer Tom Moxoncovered several trends in virtual silicon prototying design flows.In this installment of the series he'll show how to link ...
Electronic Design

Synthesis Attacks The Abstract

HARDWARE DESIGN is a process of refining an idea from a highly abstract form to a concrete, physical implementation. Along the way, a design is continually transformed from a given state of ...
Electronic Design

RTL Synthesis For SoCs Optimized For Large Designs

Offering a fast, high-capacity alternative for register-transfer level (RTL) synthesis of very large ICs, the RTL Compiler is optimized for design larger than 1 million gates with aggressive clock ...
Embedded

The four Rs of efficient system design

New design languages and new chips and systems mean a whole new set of design gotchas for today's developers. Once-simple tasks become difficult and, thankfully, once-difficult tasks become easy. This ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Shift Left In DFT Design

The semiconductor industry continues to face numerous challenges as designs approach reticle limits, process nodes evolve and engineering resources become increasingly stretched. It is essential to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

High-Level Synthesis For RISC-V

High-quality RISC-V implementations are becoming more numerous, but it is the extensibility of the architecture that is driving a lot of design activity. The challenge is designing and implementing ...