The prevailing wisdom coming out of the Design Automation Conference and other recent conferences is that to make system-level design a reality, tools must first address system verification. Well, ...

A look back at the history of design methodologies as they’ve progressed through various levels of abstraction shows that as the elements of a methodology emerge, acceptance is usually stymied by a ...

Four years ago at DAC two analysts, then at Gartner, predicted that electronic system level (ESL) design tools may return the EDA industry to double-digit growth. The ESL market is just as elusive now ...

Today's semiconductor design specifications are as thick as a New York Times bestseller. With faster data rates, lower power requirements, emerging communication protocols, rapidly evolving standards, ...

Mentor Graphics recently conducted a survey of European electronics professionals to find out about current and former applications, general design problems they have encountered and their perceptions ...

Electronic system level (ESL) is a design methodology idea that gained steam in the last 20 years centered mainly around the idea of using higher levels of abstraction to define and implement an ...