EDN

What’s required for golden RTL?

“Golden” RTL code has been seen as a holy grail of IC design for many years. It promises to deliver code that is reusable in future designs. However, golden RTL is very difficult to achieve. Too many ...
EDN

Synthesis-friendly RTL called key to first-pass design

SAN MATEO, Calif. — To achieve first-pass timing closure on complex ASICs, designers must ensure their chip architecture design and RTL design are physical synthesis-friendly. That was the bottom-line ...
Electronic Design

Tool Generates RTL Code From Untimed C++

The complexity of compute-intensive applications is driving the move to system design at the algorithmic level. With the release of the Catapult C synthesis tool ...
Electronic Design

Predictive-Analysis Tool Sniffs Out Gate-Level Problems In RTL Code

Thanks to a fast, built-in synthesis engine, Atrenta's SpyGlass 3.0 predictive-analysis tool detects very complex structural problems in register transfer level (RTL) code that would otherwise only ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Achieving RTL-To-Netlist Equivalence

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, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Choosing The Right Superlinting Technology For Early RTL Code Signoff

No one can afford to go through weeks of verification only to discover problems in the register- transfer level (RTL) code that might not be functionally wrong, but do not follow established rules for ...