A look back at the history of design methodologies as they’ve progressed through various levels of abstraction shows that as the elements of a methodology emerge, acceptance is usually stymied by a ...

The prevailing wisdom coming out of the Design Automation Conference and other recent conferences is that to make system-level design a reality, tools must first address system verification. Well, ...

A few years ago, just talking about injecting a new language into hardware design -- namely C -- raised technical and emotional issues. Hardware engineers accustomed to using HDLs shuddered to think ...

Over the past 20 years, the level of abstraction for chip design has risen from transistors through gates and RTL to the electronic system level (ESL). While the level of abstraction required to ...

Electronic system level (ESL) is a design methodology idea that gained steam in the last 20 years centered mainly around the idea of using higher levels of abstraction to define and implement an ...

For a decade now, mainstream complex ASIC design and verification has been done at one level of abstraction. Logic is captured, tests are generated, simulations are analyzed, and IP is delivered at ...

Fifteen years ago, designers were buzzing about a new design approach: Register Transfer Level (RTL) Design. There was a fundamental change underway in how chip designs were created and implemented.