Irrational exuberance is running rampant. Design managers believe all their systems engineers and software programmers are going to be able to drive the hardware design process from a high-level ...

During product development, design engineers make a wide variety of choices. It is motivating to chase options that might produce a high level of performance. However, what is the likelihood of those ...

Software engineering leaders face the challenge of efficiently designing, building and delivering high-value software that customers value. Achieving these goals requires a deep understanding of both ...

High-quality RISC-V implementations are becoming more numerous, but it is the extensibility of the architecture that is driving a lot of design activity. The challenge is designing and implementing ...

There is a saying that I learned when I was growing up, “Measure twice, cut once.” It was sage advice that I often heard when building something with my dad or when I was under the tutorage of a ...

Why engineers are turning to system-level models. How high-fidelity digital twins help expose system-level issues. Where MBSE is experiencing the fastest adoption. The roles of AI and data science in ...

RF System Explorer streamlines system and circuit level design workflows for early exploration of system architectures in Advanced Design System Digital Pre-Distortion Explorer and Digital ...

Transaction level modeling (TLM) is gaining favor over register-transfer level (RTL) for design components because of its many advantages—including faster design and verification times, easier ...

There’s probably no design engineer more familiar with working at a high level of abstraction than a software developer. Whether it’s creating PC software, embedded applications, Web services, or ...

The numbers of applications using FPGAs are on the rise. They have long been used for avionics and DSP-based applications, but are finding many new applications in which their flexible and ...