Electronic Design

Full-Chip High-Level Synthesis Tool Adds SystemC Support

High-level synthesis (HLS) continues to grow in favor among beleaguered system-on-a-chip (SoC) design teams. At the same time, EDA vendors continue to increase the capabilities of their tools. The ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

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 ...
EDN

FPGA synthesis can be a leverage point in your design flow

FPGA design starts are on the rise due to the lower startup costs and re-programmability that FPGA devices can provide. However, large, complex FPGA devices pose significant challenges to an FPGA ...
EDN

New generation of physical RTL synthesis improves QoR

The quality of the netlist generated during RTL synthesis has an enormous impact on the rest of the physical design flow. For teams designing large SoCs at advanced nodes, it is more important than ...
Electronic Design

FPGA Synthesis Speeds Up And Spreads Out

As designers well know, today’s FPGAs are large enough to swallow a lot of functionality, which is a good thing. The bad news is that going from RTL to a bit file for these big chips is starting to ...