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 ...

The conversion of a high-level electronic circuit description into a list of logic gates and their interconnections, called the "netlist." Every logic synthesis program understands some subset of ...

Finite State Machines (FSMs) have long been a cornerstone of digital system design, and continuing advancements in logic synthesis have enabled increasingly optimised implementations. At its core, FSM ...

A Perspective in National Science Review outlines a new paradigm for fully automated processor chip design. By combining ...

The implementation flow for semiconductor devices is all about optimizing for power, performance, area (PPA), or some combination of these attributes. The history of this flow in electronic design ...

Reactive systems synthesis is a rapidly evolving discipline that focuses on the automated construction of systems designed to interact continuously with complex and often unpredictable environments.

Editor's Note: In Part 2 of this series,consultant and ASIC designer Tom Moxoncovered several trends in virtual silicon prototying design flows.In this installment of the series he'll show how to link ...

While it is tempting to write RTL and let the synthesis tool take over, this isn’t the best way to get the results we want. In this article, we’ll learn how to create complex combinatorial code in ...