EDN

Assertion Methodologies for Verilog Design

Sometimes good ideas take a while to catch on in engineering practice. The use of in-line assertions to document assumptions and check for problems in RTL code is one such idea. Long ago proposed for ...
EDN

Startup embeds RTL Verilog in C++ class library

Santa Cruz, Calif. – Promising a low-cost approach to chip design, startup Tenko Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) is going into beta test with CvSDL, a C++ class library for design and ...
Design-Reuse

Refactoring to Prepare RTL for Reuse

Preparing a design for reuse, especially one not originally written with reuse in mind, often requires changing the RTL. Ideally, these changes should be made as quickly as possible and without ...
Electronic Design

A Good Methodology Helps Design Teams Check RTL Code

Many of today's large, complex designs can contain thousands of lines of Verilog or VHDL code. Quite often, teams of engineers—with some members possibly situated in disparate locations worldwide—will ...
Design-Reuse

OneSpin Solutions Adds RTL-to-RTL Equivalence Checking to Product Family

MUNICH, GERMANY –– February 11, 2013 –– OneSpin Solutions™ (www.onespin-solutions.com), provider of innovative formal assertion-based verification (ABV) solutions, announced immediate ...