EDN

Optimized Mentor-MathWorks FPGA design flow

Mentor has announced support for hardware description language (HDL) generated by MathWorks Simulink HDL Coder in the Mentor Graphics Precision suite of advanced synthesis products. This capability ...
Electronic Design

Mentor Graphics, Mathworks Optimize FPGA Design Flow

Mentor Graphics has upgraded its Precision Synthesis tool to include hardware description language (HDL) generated by MathWorks Simulink HDL Coder. Customers will be able to transfer VHDL and Verilog ...
Electronic Design

Xilinx And Synopsys Collaborate On Tool Flow For Platform FPGAs

Time-saving verification tools have been added to an advanced tool flow for high-end FPGA design. The flow, a collaboration between Xilinx Inc. of San Jose and Synopsys Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., ...
EDN

Latest FPGA design tools from Lattice extend performance and productivity

The folks at Lattice Semiconductor have announced the immediate availability of their ispLEVER 7.1 FPGA design tool suite. This latest release delivers a number of new functional and ...
Design-Reuse

The four Rs of efficient system design

New design languages and new chips and systems mean a whole new set of design gotchas for today's developers. Once-simple tasks become difficult and, thankfully, once-difficult tasks become easy. This ...
Design-Reuse

From Behavioral to RTL Design Flow in SystemC

This paper reports the scientific collaboration between LLR and PROSILOG. The aim of this collaboration was to show the possibility to quickly implement a system into a FPGA, using SystemC 4 as the ...
Embedded

Tackle team-based FPGA design

You see them at almost every user seminar or industry trade show workshop: the Methodology Managers from XYZ Corporation, who describe the system they use to help the company make sense of the ...
Embedded

The four Rs of efficient system design

New design languages and new chips and systems mean a whole new set of design gotchas for today's developers. Once-simple tasks become difficult and, thankfully, once-difficult tasks become easy. This ...