Hey folks, John Cooley’s posted on deepchip.com Part 2 of his IC verification census, which features data indicating that SystemC use is decreasing while SystemVerilog use is increasing and that ...

Since its debut in 2004, the current generation of high-level synthesis (HLS) tools has made tremendous progress in terms of both quality of results (QoR) and wider applicability. The success of this ...

CoWare has developed tools for hardware design and simulation centred around the SystemC language. Called ConvergenSC, the software is said to be faster than the reference simulator for SystemC ...

Brett Cline, senior vice president at OneSpin Solutions, explains how adding formal verification into the high-level synthesis flow can reduce the time spent in optimization and debug by about ...

So they're using it for extending design and adding simple verification structures, and I think that's its sweetspot. SystemC, on the other hand, is very much focused on systems and software." A ...

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 ...

With a new version 2.1 and its emphasis on transaction-level modeling, SystemC is finding its role as the glue that binds architectural analysis and the RTL implementation world. When the SystemC ...

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 ...