Silicon real estate advances have inevitably led to the complete integration of microprocessor subsystems together with custom hardware and software on single devices. This advancement has brought ...

Debugging is an important part of embedded design; one that necessarily crosses the hardware/software divide. At a system level, the functionality of an embedded design is increasingly defined by ...

Of course I will be in trouble once this blog is posted. This post is about hardware/software debug, and I tried to layer a set of different levels for the scope and applicability of debug. I counted ...

Feature-rich consumer products and the need for these products to support increasing performance demands at lower cost and less power is not a new issue. Nor is the fact that the power ceiling has ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Lauro Rizzatti, Verification Consultant Hardware emulation continues to prove itself as a handy tool for ...

Today’s system-on-chip (SoC) designs aren’t just hardware anymore. In the past, the creation of hardware chips was separate from the creation of the software to be executed on those chips, but ...

In many ways, the work of the hardware developer faced with designing a printed circuit board and then debugging it reminds me of the derring-do swordplay in those classic swashbuckling movies of the ...

The concurrent design and verification of hardware and software has become a reality thanks to a plethora of resources in ESL flows, emulation, modeling and standards, and more. There once was a time ...

Simulation-driven firmware development decouples code from hardware constraints, enabling earlier testing and faster delivery ...

Researchers at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a system for finding computer bugs in small devices that scavenge their energy from their environment and are subject ...