The creation of an FPGA requires extensive transistor-level design. This is necessary for both the final design, and during architecture exploration, when many different logic and...
C++ based verification methodologies are now emerging as the preferred method for SOC design. However most of the verification involving the C++ models are simulation based. The c...
FPGAs offer flexibility and cost-effectiveness that ASICs cannot match; however, their performance is quite poor in comparison, especially for arithmetic dominated circuits. To ad...
Philip Brisk, Ajay K. Verma, Paolo Ienne, Hadi Par...
Modern combinational equivalence checking (CEC) engines are complicated programs which are difficult to verify. In this paper we show how a modern CEC engine can be modified to pr...
Satrajit Chatterjee, Alan Mishchenko, Robert K. Br...
An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...