As system complexities rise and management and market pressures drive tight schedules, engineers find that meeting schedules and budgets are constantly top concerns. The innate, driving, subconscious ...

An effective way to deal with this problem is to perform high-level design and testing early in the development process using system-level design techniques. After building a prototype, engineers can ...

Where are the system-level design tools that we need for systems on chips? For years the semiconductor industry has been marching noisily toward the world of SoCs, but now that we are here, we find ...

Contributing Editor Frank Schirrmeister examines the historical shifts in the EDA industry, from layout to transistors to gates to RTL, with an eye on what may be next, including electronic-system ...