Aldec Design and Verification Blog Trending Articles FPGA Design Verification in a Nutshell Versal ACAP Simulation Challenges Real-time SDR system with TySOM The Convergence of Emulation and Prototyping Development of real-time SDR systems with Aldec HES Performing cross spectrum video processing on a TySOM-3 board How does the Mars Perseverance rover benefit from FPGAs as the main processing units? 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 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 What is Bird’s Eye View ADAS Application and How to Develop This Using Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC FPGA? Bird’s eye view definition, HW/SW setup and implementation algorithms Will the world be a better place in which to live by having autonomous cars driving around us? Or would it be unsafe and scary? Maybe someone was asking such a question even when the first steam-powered automobile capable... Tags:Aceleration,ARM,Embedded,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Prototyping,Validation,Verification,Verilog,Design,Digital,SoC,Xilinx,Zynq Like(1) Comments (0) Read more HW/SW Co-Simulation for SoC FPGA designs Aldec’s Co-Simulation Solution using QEMU and Riviera-PRO Heterogeneous System on Chip (SoC) devices like the Xilinx Zynq 7000 and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC combine a high-performance processing system (PS) with state-of-the-art programmable logic (PL).... Tags:Co-simulation,Embedded,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Simulation,SoC,Validation,Verification,Verilog,VHDL,Xilinx Like(2) 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 FPGA vs GPU for Machine Learning Applications: Which one is better? Can FPGAs beat GPUs? FPGAs or GPUs, that is the question. Since the popularity of using machine learning algorithms to extract and process the information from raw data, it has been a race between FPGA and GPU vendors to offer... Tags:Aceleration,Embedded,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Validation,Verilog,VHDL,Xilinx Like(3) Comments (0) Read more Stress-Relief for Requirements-Based Verification Verification of Safety-Critical FPGAs under Strict DO-254 Guidance If they’re being honest, anyone who has verified an FPGA under strict DO-254 guidance will tell you that it is stressful. Show me an engineer on their first DO-254 project – and I’ll show you someone pulling out their hair... Tags:Aviation,Coverage,Design,FPGA,safety-critical,Project management ,Validation,Verification Like(2) Comments (0) Read more Aldec and NEC reveal HLS shortcut at upcoming SoC Conference Breaking through the growing design verification maze The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is popular for many things, but I recall during my school days that it was distinctly known among students for its underground tunnel network.... Tags:SoC,Prototyping,ASIC,Validation,Verification Like(2) Comments (0) Read more SCE-MI for SoC Verification Transaction-level Interface Delivers Performance Today’s System-on-Chip verification teams are moving up in the levels of abstraction to increase the degree of coverage in the system design. As designs grow larger,... Tags:Co-simulation,Emulation,FPGA,Hardware,SoC,Validation,Verification Like(2) Comments (0) Read more