July

July 31, 2010

Published by Gary Stringham at July 31, 2010

Principle 4: Design for Compatibility

This is the fourth in a series of newsletters that present seven principles to help guide your own processes and best practices in hardware/firmware interface design. This month’s principle focuses on maintaining compatibility between versions of hardware and versions of firmware. Designing for compatibility means to design in such a […]

July 14, 2010

Published by Gary Stringham at July 14, 2010

Verification: Can We Do More?

A comment in the GABEonEDA blog entry “Accellera Works Toward a Unified Verification Methodology (UVM)” recently caught my attention: Silicon respins due to design errors not only have not diminished in number, they have actually increased. This is an indication that complexity has grown more than the ability of verification […]