EDN

Synplicity upgrades FPGA logic, physical synthesis tools

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Synplicity Inc. has announced the latest version of its FPGA logic synthesis and physical synthesis software solutions featuring what it claims is better quality of results and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

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 ...
EDN

Current Chip Design Flow is Flawed

As in any other engineering activity, the design of semiconductor chips (ICs) encompasses several separate, but often closely coupled, design activities. Today's system-on-a-chip (SoC) development ...
Electronic Design

Synthesis Attacks The Abstract

HARDWARE DESIGN is a process of refining an idea from a highly abstract form to a concrete, physical implementation. Along the way, a design is continually transformed from a given state of ...