Today all chip designs begin as lines of code. The code is written at a high level, hiding much of the complexity from the designer, and then synthesized into a low-level description for layout and ...

can be written with a minimum amount of code, yet they are fraught with danger for the real-time designer. In the same way, this book has a kind of Zen-like simplicity and complexity: a yin and a yang ...

In an AI system, an accelerator may write data to memory and a CPU may then read it, or control information may be shared ...

What does it take to design a software system that doesn’t crumble under the weight of its own complexity? For many developers, the challenge of architecting large-scale software projects lies in ...

About 15 years ago, the assumption in the EDA industry was that system design would be inevitable. The transition from gate-level design to a new entry point at the register transfer level (RTL) ...

Used to perform FMEA, Software FMEA/HAZOP, DFA, and cybersecurity threat analysis, the software has embedded knowledge about likely system level problems that helps detect design issues early, for ...

A new systems design toolset aims to create a unified user experience for board designers while adding cloud connectivity and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, which will enable engineers to ...

Modern embedded systems are expected to operate with predictable timing, continuous reliability, and near-instantaneous response under increasingly complex workloads. From automotive control units and ...

System software is a type of computer program designed to run a computer's hardware and application programs. Thinking of the computer system as a layered model, the system software is the interface ...