Semiconductor Engineering

Full AMS Design Flow For The IoT

The pressure for a new generation of (analog/mixed-signal) AMS design capabilities has been accelerated by the sudden demand for Internet of Things (IoT). These inexpensive devices are used in an ...
Design-Reuse

Reusing Verilog IP Cores in SystemC Environment by V2SC

SystemC 2.1 supports all hardware concepts introduced by HDLs such as Verilog and VHDL. V2SC proposes a methodology for automatic conversion of Verilog 2001 constructs into SystemC 2.1 language. 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 ...
EDN

For SoC design with C++, success lies in the details

>As a consultant on the use of Verilog and VHDL for electronic design, I've observed firsthand the ever-increasing challenges designers face to implement system-on-chip (SoC) designs with current ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Combining CMOS IC And MEMS Design For IoT Edge Devices

Creating a sensor-based IoT edge device is challenging, due to the multiple design domains involved. But, creating an edge device that combines the electronics using the traditional CMOS IC flow and a ...
Electronic Design

DFT Strategies for SOC Designs

Many IC designers finally have embraced design for testability (DFT) in the form of scan insertion for digital circuit designs because of the significant time-to-production advantages these techniques ...