Oftentimes, in order to save on the cost of IP, a company will select an encrypted netlist as the deliverable instead of the RTL source code. This is especially common among companies looking to ...

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 ...

Running quality tests and regression at RTL level, and even fixing all discovered design bugs does not guarantee the flawless hardware design. To make sure there are no bugs in the target hardware, ...

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 ...

The “shift left” of the development cycle is critical for the huge, complex chips used in such applications as AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Identifying design issues at the netlist stage ...

Frequently, the customer netlists sent to ASIC vendors' design center engineers for physical implementation are riddled with problems. "If you have timing or congestion problems in implementations, it ...

The shrinking process geometries are enabling to build more complex SoCs, which has higher risk of re-spins. The FPGA prototyping is an efficient approach to perform pre-silicon SoC validation, ...

True or false: ASIC design follows a very straightforward path that begins with high-level architectural definition. It proceeds through RTL design and preliminary floorplanning. After synthesis, the ...

The practice of retargeting an existing design from one FPGA technology to another has received a lot of attention. Why should design teams consider this strategy? By Sreedhar Mallela. Recent supply ...

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 ...