Hey, it’s not too late to attend SNUG Silicon Valley: http://www.synopsys.com/Community/SNUG/Silicon%20Valley/pages/default.aspx
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Posted in ASIC Verification, Bug Hunting, Daughter Boards, Debug, DWC IP Prototyping Kits, Early Software Development, FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Getting Started, HAPS-80, HW/SW Integration, In-System Software Validation, IP Validation, Man Hours Savings, Performance Optimization, Project management, Real Time Prototyping, Support, System Validation, Technical, Tips and Traps, UltraScale, Use Modes
Over the next couple of weeks I’ll blog with more details on the key capabilities of the newly available HAPS-80 with ProtoCompiler integrated solution.
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Posted in FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Getting Started, HAPS-80, Man Hours Savings, Performance Optimization, UltraScale
Recently at SNUG in Israel I was lucky enough to attend two presentations created and delivered by Intel teams on their use of FPGA-based prototyping. The first: “Methodology and Best Practices deployed by Intel for FPGA-based prototyping” discussed various technics they employ to streamline the creation of an FPGA-based prototype. It’s like a mini methodology guide so I highly recommend you review the material.
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Posted in ASIC Verification, Debug, Early Software Development, FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Getting Started, HW/SW Integration, In-System Software Validation, IP Validation, Man Hours Savings, Milestones, Performance Optimization, Project management, System Validation, Technical, Tips and Traps, Use Modes
Possibly inspired my one of my blogs, Troy Scott, wrote a new whitepaper to help dispel the myths of physical FPGA-based prototyping. TTFP = Time To First Prototype
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Posted in FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Humor, Milestones, Project management, Technical, Tips and Traps
Last week I spent a week in Japan visiting users to discuss their FPGA-based prototyping challenges and explain how Synopsys can help. My overall take-away of the visits was that many companies want to expand their current single FPGA-based prototyping to multi-FPGA but fear the challenges associated with this. The summary of what I explained was pretty simple but to the point. #1 Having a defined methodology, flow and tool set is key. #2 Yes Multi-FPGA is more complex but it’s not as steep of a learning curve as you may think. And that’s it…..
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Posted in FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Getting Started, Technical, Tips and Traps, Use Modes
Recently Synopsys promoted that “Synopsys Virtual Prototyping Book Achieves Milestone of More Than 3000 Copies in Distribution to Over 1000 Companies” – http://news.synopsys.com/2014-11-05-Synopsys-Virtual-Prototyping-Book-Achieves-Milestone-of-More-Than-3000-Copies-in-Distribution-to-Over-1000-Companies Virtual Prototyping continues to gain momentum including Hybrid Prototyping, which combines Virtual Prototyping with FPGA-based prototyping. The VP book statistics prompted me to have a look at the FPGA-based Prototyping Methodology Manual, FPMM statistics.
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Posted in FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Getting Started, IP Validation, Technical, Tips and Traps
In previous blogs I have spoken a lot about automation, features and capabilities which accelerate time to operational prototype and deliver higher performance enabling you to run more software against your design representation. These capabilities are designed to reduce the need for prototyping expertise and effort…….. but not to zero. Anyone who tells you that no expertise or effort is needed is not telling you the whole truth. This was the basis of this blog, “Breaking the three laws” of which the first law is ASIC are FPGA Hostile! Who can tell me what the other two laws are? I know but this is like a quiz for my readers.
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Posted in FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Getting Started, Technical, Tips and Traps
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Posted in Admin and General, ASIC Verification, Bug Hunting, Debug, Early Software Development, FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Getting Started, HW/SW Integration, In-System Software Validation, Man Hours Savings, Mick's Projects, Milestones, Project management, System Validation, Technical
As it’s my first blog of 2014 (Happy New year and all that) I wanted to reflect back on 2013 and what better way to do that than review the best of the best of my blog postings from 2013. So drum roll please… here is my short list of cracking blog posts from 2013 in chronological order. This is not a list of all the blogs (but it did turn out to be a big list) just the ones that I personally think have the most valuable FPGA-based prototyping information.
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Posted in Debug, FPGA-Based Prototyping, FPMM Methods, Getting Started, In-System Software Validation, Technical, Tips and Traps
Michael (Mick) Posner joined Synopsys in 1994 and is currently Director of Product Marketing for Synopsys' DesignWare USB Solutions. Previously, he was the Director of Product Marketing for Physical (FPGA-based) Prototyping and has held various product marketing, technical marketing manager and application consultant positions at Synopsys. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the University of Brighton, England.