Tag Archives: Software Development

Some chip-design reality from Mentor’s Wally Rhines at last week’s annual DAC ESL panel

Last week at DAC, Mentor’s Chairman and CEO Wally Rhines chaired a panel on ESL but in his introduction, Wally spoke more about chip-design costs and associated software development. “The rapidly escalating cost of chip design has more to do … Continue reading

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System EDA tools attack today’s great bugaboo for SoC Realization: The Software Development Overhang

Today at the North American System C Users Group (NASCUG) meeting in San Jose, the Cadence Group Director of Product Marketing for System Development Frank Schirrmeister gave a really great overview and value proposition for extensive use of System Development … Continue reading

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Friday Video: How many hardware/software integration lessons can you absorb in 34 minutes?

The EDA360 concept of System Realization is all about overcoming hardware/software integration issues. How bad could those be? Well, software is invisible and its operation cannot be probed without appropriate tools. There are myriad pitfalls for software developers trying to … Continue reading

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