System Design with Early System Exploration

Nov 30, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar

System Design creates the right “look and feel” of the product for the target application. System design enables early architecture exploration using incomplete information to create accurate system requirements. Early system design creates the highest quality product with the required response time and throughput; optimized for power consumption; and has the lowest cost. The end […]

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ESL and IC-only Solutions are not the same

Oct 10, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar

Most articles on ESL cover the IC-only design or a virtual prototyping environment for software development. Articles would be accurate if systems were simple and ICs were the only parts in a complete product. Unfortunately for an already confused industry, everyone mixes ESL and IC, seeming to imply that ESL tools aren’t needed. Remember that […]

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