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Verification of Configuration Registers
The best way to achieve 100% functional coverage with least hassle
for register attribute testing is to use a register model. Usage
of register model in verification environment eliminates tedious
and error-prone processes of manually managing registers and enables
design, verification and firmware teams to work more efficiently
for a consistent and synchronized chip design flow
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- By Kunal Shah
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Partner Showcase
Selecting the right peripheral
for DSP applications
The Texas Instruments TMS320DM642
processor has a set of peripherals designed for this application
space. The combination of an application-specific DSP core
and a set of application-centric peripherals allows the DSP
device to perform extremely fast calculations and algorithms
specialized for image processing
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- By Robert Oshana
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1. SystemVerilog reference verification
methodology: ESL
Over the past 20 years, the level of abstraction for
chip design has risen from transistors through gates and RTL to
the electronic system level (ESL). While the level of abstraction
required to verify the design has risen correspondingly, at every
stage verification has remained a major challenge Read
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- By Thomas Anderson, Janick Bergeron, Eduard Cerny,
Alan Hunter and Andrew Nightingale
2. Domesticating
DSP: The Shifting Sands of Datapath Design
In the good old days, digital signal processing (DSP) was
a well-behaved wild animal. Lately though, the tighter relationship
between core applications and massive streams of data in applications
such as video and wireless have caused us to call into question
the practice of throwing down a special-purpose processor Read
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- By Kevin Morris
3. Can SoC switching regulators answer the challenge of
their SiP counterparts?
Inductor-based switching DC-DC converters are becoming increasingly
important in the expanding world of battery-powered electronics.
Switching noise, circuit complexity (i.e., silicon and board real
estate, speed, and reliability), and integration of power passive
devices, however, have limited their market penetration Read
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- By Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora and Luke Milner
4. Automotive
Wireless: Can you hear me now?
Modern cars are electronics-packed technology marvels. Their
development cycle--from design start to street--is measured in years
rather than months, ie. they remain on the trailing edge of consumer
electronics developments Read
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- By Rick DeMeis
5. Sequential
equivalence checking for RTL
IThe papper examines the need for formal sequential equivalence
checking across pairs of RTL models. With scenarios that call for
modifying the sequential behavior of RTL models while preserving
functionality Read
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- By Nikhil Sharma, Gagan Hasteer and Venkat Krishnaswamy
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