When you think about it, logic synthesis is a vital but rather intimidating part of modern chip design. This process takes a high-level description of intended functionality, written in an RTL ...

While most of the ASIC industry is focused on solving timing and congestion problems at the netlist level, LSI Logic has developed and deployed an innovative methodology to resolve these physical ...

Engineering Change Order or ECO is the process of inserting logic directly into the gate level netlist corresponding to a change that occurs in the rtl due to design ...

This paper presents a digital design flow in order to design high performance differential Emitter Coupled Logic (ECL) circuits efficiently. The proposed flow is similar to the ordinary digital CMOS ...

The Unified Power Format (UPF) is used to specify the power intent of a design. Once written, the UPF file is applied at every stage of the design cycle — starting with the RTL, then the gate-level, ...

WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced new formal-based technologies in the Questa Verification Solution that provide RTL designers and ...

The small world of sub-20nm design is already upon us and has brought a new set of challenges for register-transfer level (RTL) designers as the race for best performance, power, and area (PPA) ...

A block of digital logic that is designed to be implemented in an ASIC or FPGA chip. A soft core is typically delivered in RTL, which is a hardware description language that defines logic at a higher ...

Formal verification tool maker OneSpin Solutions has made its 360 EC (equivalence checker) available to the FPGA market. The pushbutton EC FGPA tool helps FPGA designers ensure that RTL (register ...

If there's a truism in design debug and test, it's that the earlier you can find a bug, the less costly it is to fix. Thus, finding bugs at RTL is far preferable to finding them after synthesis. With ...