In today’s semiconductor landscape, scale is becoming a bigger battleground—not only for chipmakers, but increasingly for hyperscalers, cloud giants, and other systems companies, too. They're all ...

Although Moore’s Law, in principle, enables a huge number of components to be integrated into a single chip, design methods that will allow system architects to put the components together to ...

The concept and application of FPGA Coprocessors as a means of delivering hardware IP to software and system engineers is presented. The hardware and software architecture of FPGA coprocessors is ...

XyphroLabs's UsbGpib is an open-source hardware, inexpensive, and portable USB to GPIB adapter aiming to provide "access to ...

Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. announced the newest edition of its CoDeveloper” C to RTL design tools, which adds support for Altera's SOPC Builder and the Quartus II, Version 4.1 design ...

From the earliest days of my career, when designing chips, I have always navigated the interface between hardware and software for semiconductor design in my roles. My initial chip designs included ...

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 ...

The hardware/software interface (HSI) is where system-on-chip (SoC) software defines the connections between the software and the underlying hardware. Maintaining a precise, synchronized HSI across ...