Well, it has been quite a while since my last post on this blog. But I today I wanted to share some interesting data points from Gary Smith’s latest “ESL Market Overview” report which came out a few weeks ago.
The first fact is that, in what Gary calls “one of the worst years in EDA history”, ESL outperformed the overall EDA market. While EDA declined by 6.6%, ESL “held its own with a negative 1.3% … Read More
When the world’s leading foundry invests time and resources to extend its reference flow with ESL methodologies, this has to be a sign that electronic-system level (ESL) practices have come of age. This announcement is not only the confirmation of the vital importance of ESL for the electronic design community, it is also a strong sign that flows have matured to the point where mainstream designers … Read More
Tags: Architecture Design, Catapult C Synthesis, ESL Verification, Vista, Architecture Validation
There it goes again… Every four years it’s the same struggle… How can one survive being both a soccer fan and an EDA professional when DAC and the FIFA world cup collide? In a few hours, France will play Uruguay. How can one soundly go through long final reviews when his home team is playing?
Of course, attending the conference as a visitor or an exhibitor isn’t quite the same thing and the preparation … Read More
Tags: DAC, Catapult C Synthesis
I couldn’t resist a smile when I saw the following headline in a recent newsletter: “Ericsson wins $1.8bn of Chinese deals“. And my smile widened when, a few days later, I read about Ericsson scoring another huge deal in India.
The two announcements underscored the significant strides made by the Swedish company in the 4G wireless market. 4G, also known as LTE (Long Term Evolution), refers to the … Read More
Tags: Partner, Catapult C Synthesis
The recent launch of Catapult’s new SystemC support at EDSFair in Yokohama was also an opportunity to confirm a long lasting EDA trend: SystemC is big in Japan.
Since SystemC’s debuts a decade ago, Japanese companies have always been at the forefront of the user community and, consequently, constituting an important market for ESL products. But acknowledging the fact doesn’t do us much good if the … Read More
Today, Mentor Graphics announced that Catapult C now also synthesizes SystemC. This is significant news. Hardware designers can now adopt a high-level synthesis solution which will not limit them in any way, offering the ability to design and synthesize from both ANSI C++ and SystemC. Catapult C now combines the best of both worlds, and engineers can choose the language and abstraction that best fits … Read More
Tags: SystemC, Catapult C Synthesis
When adopting new methodologies, measuring and understanding the actual return on investment is always an important thing to do. While it is usually easy to see the upfront costs – the investment – it is equally easy to overlook the other half of the equation – the actual return.
In this video I’ll share with you the example of an ROI calculation which a Catapult customer did a little while ago.
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Just a few weeks ago, in a recent blog post, I alluded to the ubiquitous iPhone and Blackberry devices. Today however, the “mode-du-jour” is of course Google’s new Nexus One smartphone. That’s as fast as it goes in this high-tech consumer world of ours.
The word “nexus” comes from the Latin “nectere” which means “to bind”, and a common definition for “nexus” is “means of communications”. That’s a nicely … Read More
Tags: Catapult C Synthesis
The new year is already a couple of days old, but I guess we’re still allowed to take one last look at 2009 - the year which saw the birth of this now not so small blog. “French Fries and High-Level Synthesis” was launched at the end of June of 2009, a couple of days before the announcement of Catapult C’s new control-logic and low-power synthesis capabilities. If admittedly I didn’t write much about … Read More
John Cooley’s much awaited DAC trip report is out. The report is a compilation of hundreds of engineers thoughts, findings and commentaries on what they saw at this year’s conference in San Francisco. In a section of his report dedicated to high-level synthesis, John Cooley awards Cataput C an early lead in this area:
In the so-called “high level synthesis” space (I put HLS in quotes because that’s … Read More
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