SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a push to establish a new design verification standard, the Open SystemC Initiative last week announced the SystemC Verification standard, based on Cadence Design Systems Inc.'s ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) announced the SystemC Verification (SCV) standard for system-level design on Wednesday (Nov. 20). Based on Cadence Design Systems Inc.'s ...

It is widely accepted that system verification is the most imposing obstacle to meeting time-to-market schedules. Now, the verification process has become even more time-consuming and expensive. These ...

System-Level Design moderated a discussion about the future of SystemC with Thomas Alsop, corporate design solution expert at Intel; Ambar Sarkar, chief verification technologist at Paradigm Works; ...

Typically, the inevitable boost in speed lures designers into levels of abstraction above RTL. The more abstract your design representation is, the faster it will simulate. Mentor Graphics' ...

High-level synthesis (HLS) is a design flow in which design intent is described at a higher level of abstraction than RTL, such as in SystemC/C++ or MATLAB. HLS tools are expected to synthesize this ...