Aldec Design and Verification Blog Trending Articles Bridging Simulation and Hardware Advanced Static Linting for FPGA Performance Optimization Scalable Cloud-based CI/CD HDL Verification Environment Navigating VUnit: A Practical Guide to Modifying Testing Approaches Speeding Up Simulation with VUnit for Parallel Testing Introduction to VUnit FPGA Design Verification in a Nutshell All Categories Corporate DO-254 Compliance Embedded Solutions Emulation/Acceleration FPGA Design Functional Verification High Performance Computing Requirements Management SoC and ASIC Prototyping SoC Design and Validation Specialized Applications The Convergence of Emulation and Prototyping During the development of a system on chip (SoC), hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping play distinct and essential roles. ● Emulation is used to verify that a design meets its functional requirements, where the verification is performed by emulating the hardware and simulating (using a testbench) the environment in which it must perform.... Tags:ARM,ASIC,Emulation,FPGA,SoC,Validation,Verification Like(3) Comments (0) Read more Linting RISC-V designs with ALINT-PRO As the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) continues to gain momentum, the growing number of RISC-V design solutions, and their flexibility, creates a problem when choosing the most reliable and robust solution from a number of contenders.... Tags:ASIC,FPGA,HDL,Verification,Verilog,Design,Digital,IP,Linting,SoC,SystemVerilog Like(2) Comments (0) Read more Connecting Emulated Design to External PCI Express Device These days verification teams no longer question whether hardware assisted verification should be used in their projects. Rather, they ask at which stage they should start using it. Contemporary System-on-Chip (SoC) designs are already sufficiently complex to make HDL simulation... Tags:ARM,ASIC,Emulation,FPGA,SoC,Validation,Verification Like(2) Comments (0) Read more ARM-based SoC Co-Emulation using Zynq Boards Ready-to-use Co-Emulation Platform Have you ever worked on a group project where you had to combine your work with that of a colleague of a different engineering discipline but the absence of an efficient means of doing so affected the project’s overall outcome?... Tags:ARM,ASIC,Emulation,FPGA,SoC,Validation,Verification,Zynq Like(1) Comments (0) Read more The Power of PCIe in Performance-based FPGA World Understanding High speed serial data transfer In today's world, when the entire computing industry is talking about high-performance and high-speed applications using FPGAs, just what are the factors that can assure such performance and speed?... Tags:Aceleration,ASIC,Co-simulation,Documentation,Embedded,Emulation,FPGA,FPGA Simulation,Hardware,HDL,IP,Prototyping,Simulation,SoC,Validation,Verification,Xilinx Like(3) Comments (0) Read more Software Driven Test of FPGA Prototype Use development software to drive your DUT on an FPGA prototyping platform Most everyone would agree how important FPGA prototyping is to test and validate an IP, sub-system, or a complete SoC design. Before the design is taped-out it can be validated at speeds near real operating conditions with physical peripherals and devices connected to it instead of simulation models. ... Tags:ARM,ASIC,Co-simulation,Design,FPGA,Hardware,Prototyping,SoC,Xilinx Like(3) Comments (0) Read more Aldec Verification Tools Implement the ASIC Verification Flow Insights from Dr. Stanley Hyduke, Aldec Founder and CEO Aldec has, over the last 30 years, established itself as the preferred provider of high-performance, cost-effective verification tools for use in proving out complex FPGA designs. As the logic capacity and capability... Tags:Aceleration,ASIC,Emulation,Linting,Prototyping,Simulation,Verification Like(2) Comments (0) Read more Vegetarian Dining in Austin - DAC 2016 Helpful Tips From a Local I moved to Austin a little over a year ago, and have quickly learned that this city is a progressive blue island in a sea of red. That's the conventional wisdom, and most of the time it holds up.... Tags:ASIC,Emulation,Verification Like(2) Comments (0) Read more SVUnit Adds Support for Aldec Riviera-PRO Users A Guest Blog by Neil Johnson, HW Engineer/AgileSoC.com Co-Moderator As I wrote on AgileSoC.com recently, Aldec users have something to get excited about as SVUnit now supports Riviera-PRO™, Aldec’s advanced verification platform. SVUnit is an open-source test framework for ASIC and FPGA developers... Tags:ASIC,FPGA,SystemVerilog,Verification,Verilog Like(1) Comments (0) Read more Time-Saving, Hardware-assisted Verification For ASIC/SoC Designs Identifying effective processes for functional verification of ASIC and SoC designs is of increased significance for engineers due to growing design complexity and integration of embedded components such as CPUs, GPUs, and software device drivers. Overall test time for these systems can include millions... Tags:HES,Emulation,Aceleration,ASIC,SoC,Design,Validation,Verification,Prototyping,Debugging Like(1) Comments (0) Read more
