The “shift left” of the development cycle is critical for the huge, complex chips used in such applications as AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Identifying design issues at the netlist stage ...

As EDA tools evolve, the resulting products try to increase automation. Unfortunately, the last great advance was from schematics to language-based design starting with the first synthesis tools in ...

FPGAs, popular as they are these days for prototyping and/or production runs, come with their own little quirks. One of those is the nagging tendency for functional errors to appear in synthesis and ...

True or false: ASIC design follows a very straightforward path that begins with high-level architectural definition. It proceeds through RTL design and preliminary floorplanning. After synthesis, the ...

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...

All modern digital logic consists of combinatorial logic and sequential logic. Combinatorial logic is made up of gates while sequential logic comprises of flipflops. Different transistors are ...