Contributing Editor Frank Schirrmeister examines the historical shifts in the EDA industry, from layout to transistors to gates to RTL, with an eye on what may be next, including electronic-system ...

Adding LPMs to your design allows you to adopt a high-level methodology using low-level techniques. So many design tools are available that you might question the need for yet another one. However, a ...

Irrational exuberance is running rampant. Design managers believe all their systems engineers and software programmers are going to be able to drive the hardware design process from a high-level ...

IP reuse has reduced the urgency for a higher level of abstraction in complex system-level design, but that still could change. Chip designers have been constantly searching for a hardware description ...

For about two decades, hardware designers have been trying to use high-level synthesis (HLS) tools. The primary goal of high-level synthesis tools has been to increase design and verification ...

High-level synthesis to the rescue? You might be surprised at how hardware designers are getting new value from HLS when designing systems with FPGAs. The numbers of applications using FPGAs are on ...