Qualcomm’s Saranyan Vigraham suggests that semiconductor companies consider sharing the internal tools that they develop to make their design flows actually work. This idea deserves some thought.
While we’re all completely engaged in moving the systems engineering industry forward, sometimes it’s good to ponder the casualties. It’s apparently goodbye to Agility Design Solutions.
Please check out David Ewing’s excellent article on the design of Synapse Wireless’ SNAP mesh network protocol on Embedded.Com. Good Stuff!
Paul McLellan presents an extremely well reasoned explanation for the stark absence of open-source technology in the commercial EDA tools space.
Sorry for two posts about the same subject, but Brian Bailey’s whitepaper (System Level Virtual Prototyping becomes a reality with OVP donation from Imperas) really got me thinking. Overall, Brian formulates a strong argument for system-level model-based design.
I found a great article on OVP World written by Brian Bailey about ESL and the forces at work affecting ESL adoption. It’s called “System Level Virtual Prototyping becomes a reality with OVP donation from Imperas” and I highly recommend it.
There are some extremely interesting resources available over at OVPWorld.
Green Hills Software recently announced software performance optimization services with a money back guarantee. Foresight M & S would like to help you optimize your systems before they’re implemented.
The Editor-in-Chief of SOC Central interviewed representatives from Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, CoWare and Cadence for a recent webcast. They talked about ESL, the benefits and obstacles to adoption, and how tools from their companies can be used to implement an ESL flow.
Paul shares a paper on the integration of SysML with Modelica that he recently became aware of.
