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• Why modern SoC designs embrace emulation

  Jean-Marie Brunet, Marketing Director (Emulation Division), Mentor Graphics

  If there is a single largest factor that has driven the evolution of hardware emulation as a primary verification tool, it is system-on-chip (SoC) design. These designs continue to grow in size and functionality and require more IP and interfaces. Emulation technology also caters to the entire SoC development cycle by testing the hardware properties [...]

• Biggest security threats for embedded designers

  Ted Marena, Microsemi Corp.

  Embedded system designers face a number of threats to the applications that they develop for the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the biggest threats comes from IoT devices that end-users can access, such as commercial networked HVAC systems, wireless base stations, power stations, network gateway systems, and avionics networking. Another example is the connected car, including the [...]

• In-lab FPGA verification is here to stay

  Frederic Leens, Byte Paradigm

  I remotely attended the Verification Futures conference, organized by TVS in the UK (you can find the slides on their web site) where NMI’s Doug Amos presented the results of a survey conducted in 2014 about FPGA usage in the UK and Ireland. One aspect that struck me is that the most commonly used FPGA [...]

• Agile for hardware development

  Mike Bartley, Test and Verification Solutions (TVS)

  Agile was a strong theme at recent Verification Futures conference, with a number of speakers discussing how they have introduced continuous integration. In 2012 at IP-SOC, I asked “Are we too hard for agile?” Here, I’ll consider how things have changed in the past two years. First, “agile” is a catch-all to describe a wide [...]