System Design and Verification

Using Physical USB Devices with the Xilinx Zynq-7000 Virtual Platform

jasona — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:31:00 GMT

There are two choices for how to handle USB devices in a virtual platform. A USB device can be modeled using C/C++ programming, or a physical USB device can be plugged into a computer and attached to the simulator. The Xilinx QEMU for Zynq uses physical...(read more)

How Debug Breakthroughs are Enabled by In-Circuit Acceleration

fschirrmeister — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

We in product management are often accused of jumping the gun and announcing products too fast. Users are looking at press releases and are wondering "sounds great, but does it really work?" Cadence announced earlier this week new in-circuit...(read more)

American Technology Awards - Finally I Can Explain to my Mom What I am Actually Working On!

fschirrmeister — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:02:00 GMT

I think all of us engineers have faced at one point or another the need to explain to our parents or friends what we are actually working on. Hey Mom, EDA is where electronics begins! Without us electronics would not change our day to day lives ... Punctually...(read more)

Xilinx Zynq-7000 Virtual Platform Performance: Native Linux vs. VirtualBox

jasona — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

In my last blog post , I covered three frequently asked questions about using the Xilinx Zynq-7000 Virtual Platform as a VirtualBox appliance. Today, I'll cover the next most frequently asked question. It is related to simulation performance. This...(read more)

Xilinx Zynq-7000 Virtual Platform Frequently Asked Questions: VirtualBox Edition

jasona — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:00:00 GMT

The use of virtual machine technology offers great ease of use benefits. Since the virtual platform for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform has been available as a virtual machine appliance, I have seen it run by many people who would...(read more)

Modeling Large Memories in SystemC

jasona — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:33:00 GMT

Sometimes Virtual Platforms model systems with large amounts of memory. Many embedded systems have a gigabyte or more of SDRAM. For example, one of the Xilinx Zynq boards, known as ZC702, has a Linux Device Tree source file defining the memory size as...(read more)

Trying to Make Sense of the Chaos – Impressions from Design West 2012

fschirrmeister — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Walking the show floor of "Design West," the show formerly known as "Embedded Systems Conference," I was as confused as ever. This was the most diverse exhibition I have ever been to. The 222 exhibitors varied from vendors offering...(read more)

Differentiation Through Hardware is Not Going Away

Jack Erickson — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:21:00 GMT

Last week at DVCon there was a panel discussion called "The Resurgence of Chip Design," which Richard Goering summarizes very well in his blog post "Will Differentiation Through Software Kill Chip Design?" The short answer is that...(read more)

Virtual Divide and Conquer Enables Fixed Sub-Systems

fschirrmeister — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:53:00 GMT

The 17 th North American SystemC User Group meeting ( NASCUG ), will take place this coming Monday (Feb. 27, 2012) at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, CA. I am on the agenda with a presentation called "Extending Fixed Sub-systems at the TLM Level...(read more)

Using a Linaro File System on the Cadence Virtual Platform for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP

jasona — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Linaro has emerged as a great place to find well tested toolchains, Linux kernels, and evaluation builds for Ubuntu and Android . Everything is focused on the ARM Architecture which is great news for me since almost all of the projects I work on also...(read more)