The prevailing wisdom coming out of the Design Automation Conference and other recent conferences is that to make system-level design a reality, tools must first address system verification. Well, ...

A look back at the history of design methodologies as they’ve progressed through various levels of abstraction shows that as the elements of a methodology emerge, acceptance is usually stymied by a ...

Four years ago at DAC two analysts, then at Gartner, predicted that electronic system level (ESL) design tools may return the EDA industry to double-digit growth. The ESL market is just as elusive now ...

A few years ago, just talking about injecting a new language into hardware design -- namely C -- raised technical and emotional issues. Hardware engineers accustomed to using HDLs shuddered to think ...

Today's semiconductor design specifications are as thick as a New York Times bestseller. With faster data rates, lower power requirements, emerging communication protocols, rapidly evolving standards, ...

Mentor Graphics recently conducted a survey of European electronics professionals to find out about current and former applications, general design problems they have encountered and their perceptions ...

Electronic system level (ESL) is a design methodology idea that gained steam in the last 20 years centered mainly around the idea of using higher levels of abstraction to define and implement an ...

This unit introdcuces the frameworks which inform an exploration of teaching methodology and curriculum development in TESOL. It provides opportunities to investigate the factors which affect teaching ...