Quote: “It works! After disabling power management for my WiFi stick in Raspberry PI configuration it is now working!!”
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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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Design defects (bugs) can be introduced at multiple levels in the design process from RTL defects, SW defects and Integration defects. The key to rapidly locating these bugs is to tailor the debug strategy to the type of bugs you are looking for. Depending on where you are in the design cycle usually dictates which type of bug is more prevalent. Physical Prototyping exercises the RTL, SW and the fully integrated design so is a key technology for design verification. Having the right debug tool set if critical to accelerate the verification task.
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Great article by Tom De Schutter on using Physical Prototyping for software development. The article goes into other use cases and explores the age old make vs. buy decision making process.
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This week Synopsys Introduced the DesignWare USB 3.1 Type-C IP with DisplayPort 1.3 and HDCP 2.2 for High-Bandwidth Data Transfer with Content Protection. USB has been continually evolving and USB Type-C is the one cable to connect them all. The USB Type-C is already gaining widespread acceptance and is becoming the most rapidly adopted USB standard in history. The need to rapidly adopt a new standard comes with challenges for the design engineers, verification team and the software developers.
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Regardless of the market segment your product targets you are being required to build it with the lowest power operation to either compete, differentiate or just be more green. This week I ran into a customer who unfortunately had to re-spin their chip due to a low power mode of operation issue. The software was able to put the chip into a low power mode but due to a bug, they were unable to get the chip out of the low power mode cleanly without a system reset. This customer wanted to better verify the low power modes before tape-out this time around.
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I ran across this blog on Imaginations website which covers details on prototyping the PowerVR Series6XT on HAPS: http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/prototyping-a-powervr-series6xt-gpu-using-an-optimized-flow-from-synopsys
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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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The myths of FPGA-based prototyping are still being proliferated and I have taken on a quest to educate the world on what FPGA-based prototyping really delivers. The latest myth propagation is seen below and was cut from a recent posting on a well-known industry website. You are all smart, you will be able to work out where it comes from. Fun read.
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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.