Electronic Design

Navigating the Hardware-Software Interface in Chip Design

Designing the hardware-software interface. Dealing with "bytes enables" in RTL verification. Automating the HSI design process across the entire dev team. The hardware-software interface (HSI) holds ...
Electronic Design

Prototyping Speeds Hardware Validation, Interface IP Certification

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The SoC design world is full of challenges and unforeseeable hurdles, especially for protocol developers and early ...
Design-Reuse

Hardware / Software Partitioning Methodology for Systems on Chip (SoCs) with RISC Host and Configurable Microprocessors

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...
Design-Reuse

Tutorial: The SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface

A standard that is gaining broad acceptance and adoption in embedded systems in a variety of markets is the Service Availability Forum’s Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). It is one of three it has ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Using Automotive IP For Easier Integration Of Safety Into SoCs

Today’s SoCs for automotive safety-related systems integrate numerous IP blocks. At the system level, the Hardware Software Interface (HSI) between these IP blocks needs to be verified in simulation ...
EDN

CO-Design Method Enables Speech Recognition SoC

Ambiguous or incorrect specifications are a major cause of failure in systems design. Thus, it is critical for the system designer to capture system specifications in an executable, unambiguous format ...