Hardware engineers employ all kinds of design reviews and processes, including design for manufacturability and design for testability. It's time software engineers stood up and asked for what they ...

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Santa Rosa, CA. Keysight Technologies today introduced a DDR4 and LPDDR4 debugging software tool that helps memory designers quickly perform JEDEC compliance measurements and determine the root cause ...

Silicon real estate advances have inevitably led to the complete integration of microprocessor subsystems together with custom hardware and software on single devices. This advancement has brought ...

Undo Software’s UndoDB can run on platforms like the Eclipse IDE. It looks like the conventional debugger but the stepping buttons give it away. They not only go forward, but backwards. (Image ...

Analog Devices has developed an FPGA-based reference design with software and HDL code that reduces the design risk of high-speed data converter and software defined radio systems using ...

Debugging embedded designs is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of observed and possible interactions between hardware and software continue to grow, and as more features are crammed into ...

Testing and debugging present different problems. In testing, the goal is to determine as quickly as possible whether the chip is working correctly, with high, but not absolute, certainty. Chip-design ...

Of course I will be in trouble once this blog is posted. This post is about hardware/software debug, and I tried to layer a set of different levels for the scope and applicability of debug. I counted ...

HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpringSoft, Inc., a global supplier of specialized IC design software, today announced comprehensive support for the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) with its ...