Design-Reuse

FPGA Implementation of DLX Microprocessor With WISHBONE SoC Bus

DLX is an open source microprocessor, it’s free and it has never been implemented in a commercial ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design. The objective of this project is to use the ...
Design-Reuse

Synopsys and Xilinx Collaborate on the Industry's First Methodology Manual for FPGA-Based Prototyping of SoC Designs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif., March 2, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification ...
Electronic Design

Solutions Mitigate Mixed-Signal SoC Implementation Headaches

The concept of silicon realization, as defined in the Cadence EDA360 vision paper, represents everything required to produce a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design in silicon. 1 Silicon realization addresses ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Adding NoCs To FPGA SoCs

FPGA SoCs straddle the line between flexibility and performance by combining elements of both FPGAs and ASICs. But as they find a home in more safety- and mission-critical markets, they also are ...
Electronic Design

Tektronix Upgrades Entry-Level Oscilloscope with Xilinx SoC

Considerations that Tektronix weighed when evaluating solutions for its new entry-level oscilloscopes How Tektronix used Xilinx’s Zynq-7000S SoC to build a more powerful, entry-level family of ...
EDN

Design planning for large SoC implementation at 40nm: Guaranteeing predictable schedule and first-pass silicon success

The physical design implementation of large complex deep sub-micron technologies has evolved to a stage where it is essential to consider every aspect of SoC design and implementation during the ...