When you think about it, logic synthesis is a vital but rather intimidating part of modern chip design. This process takes a high-level description of intended functionality, written in an RTL ...

While most of the ASIC industry is focused on solving timing and congestion problems at the netlist level, LSI Logic has developed and deployed an innovative methodology to resolve these physical ...

This paper presents a digital design flow in order to design high performance differential Emitter Coupled Logic (ECL) circuits efficiently. The proposed flow is similar to the ordinary digital CMOS ...

Because Onex is a startup, our design and verification teams require efficient design flows and methodology to be effective. During the design phase of the company's service processor, the Switch ...

Engineering Change Order or ECO is the process of inserting logic directly into the gate level netlist corresponding to a change that occurs in the rtl due to design ...

The Unified Power Format (UPF) is used to specify the power intent of a design. Once written, the UPF file is applied at every stage of the design cycle — starting with the RTL, then the gate-level, ...

WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced new formal-based technologies in the Questa Verification Solution that provide RTL designers and ...

Interest is growing in design at levels of abstraction above RTL, and synthesis tools seem to be meeting the challenge. HARDWARE DESIGN is a process of refining an idea from a highly abstract form to ...

A block of digital logic that is designed to be implemented in an ASIC or FPGA chip. A soft core is typically delivered in RTL, which is a hardware description language that defines logic at a higher ...

Excessive power consumption can destroy a design’s commercial viability. Modern cell phones are permitted to consume no more than a few hundred milliwatts for voice communications. Yet in the past, ...