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2. SystemC and Transaction-Level Modeling (TLM)
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... as follows: Brian Bailey, Independent Consultant and an expert in Verification and ESL (Brian is also the leader of the Verification and ESL communities on www.TechBites.com). Frans Theeuwen, Program ...

3. Brian Bailey’s must see list for DAC 2010
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What an exciting DAC it will be this year. As someone who has been a leading proponent for all things ESL for a while now, and for so many years has been made to look a little silly, well, I do not need ...

4. Formal is more than just alive and well. It is thriving!
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... no longer just about the verification of RTL designs. It is spreading to higher levels of abstraction, which would fall into the ESL space and into software that would fall into the embedded space. This ...

5. Hot News - Synopsys acquire CoWare!
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... from our very own Brian Bailey in the TechBites ESL and Verification communities.  ...

6. Synopsys and CoWare tie the knot. Virtual Prototyping on fire!!
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... Synopsys now has a major integration effort ahead of them in both the ESL space and the DSP tool space. --------------------------------------------- Brian Bailey – keeping you covered  ...

7. Cadence, CoWare and Synopsys. Sorting out the investment.
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It was back in September 2003 when Cadence exited the ESL space. At that time Penny Herscher, then executive vice president and general manager at Cadence, said "From now on, if a Cadence customer asks ...

8. Say goodbye to the 3 V’s of virtual prototyping
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... suppliers has yet to show a presence in this market. It was only a few years back that Cadence turned some of their DSP and ESL software over to CoWare – maybe the time is getting right for them to take ...

9. Is Synopsys getting ready to buy EVE?
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... teams an interoperable way to easily map their SoC development environments to our emulators," remarks Lauro Rizzatti, EVE-USA's general manager and vice president of marketing.  "It ties both ESL virtual ...

10. Synfora bites the dust
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... also rumored that Synopsys had attempted to buy Forte and AutoESL, but neither of them was willing to be sold by their investors. It also seems as if Synfora had been trying to get other companies intrested ...

11. Mentor embraces SystemC in their Catapult high-level synthesis solution
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... surveys indicate that 80 percent of today’s SystemC users favor working on transactional models above the cycle accurate level, and today most ESL activities, such as architecture analysis and virtual ...

12. BDTi, Xilinx, AutoESL and Synfora dispel rumors about high-level synthesis
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... good as the best RTL engineers? You can go to the HLS vendors (Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys, Forte, Synfora, AutoESL) and they will show you results that say they produce better results in a shorter period ...

13. Synopsys extends its investment in virtual prototypes
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Several years ago Synopsys acquired Virtio and started to build a presence in the virtual prototyping market. This coupled well with their acquisition of physical prototyping and I have been eagerly awaiting ...

14. SystemC and TLM (Q&A #1)
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... in place an ESL methodology. It is primarily used for creating an abstract model of the hardware intended either for high-level synthesis or as a reference model against which the design is to be compared. ...

15. New Book: TLM-Driven Design and Verification Methodology
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...  Chapter 1            Solution Attributes 1.1          The Process Today 1.2          Separation of Concerns 1.3          Abstraction 1.4          ESL and where TLM Fits 1.5          Mixed Control ...

16. SystemC and TLM (Q&A #2)
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... is built. Reducing the RTL verification effort significantly by catching bugs earlier and faster Reducing the RTL verification effort by reusing ESL components in RTL testbench Laurent Ducousso (STMicroelectronics): ...

17. Welcome to TechBites
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... of the ESL and Verification communities). What's the algorithm behind the Karma points? I don’t know. Trust me, I've tried to find out, but those who don the undergarments of authority and stride the ...

18. Brian Baileys DAC report. Day 0
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I arrived at DAC yesterday, just in time for the EDAC reception and the customary opening talk from Gary Smith EDA. The EDAC reception was packed, with many people in good moods wanting to talk socially, ...

19. Hunting a Wild Engineer
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... disciplines/roles in alphabetical order: Analog Circuit Designer, Automotive Electronics Expert, Chip Designer, DSP Architect, Embedded Hardware Designer, ESL Guru, Embedded Software Developer, FPGA Designer, ...

20. ESL Verification Languages. What will it be based on?
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... if this is quickly rising as a popular RTL verification language, even though it appears to have had less success with adoption as a design language. Now, as we move to ESL, the market has responded quite ...