Electronic Design

Design Compiler Points Toward Better Physical Implementation

Synopsys' Design Compiler 2010 accounts for the challenges of modern physical IC design, offering floor plan exploration from within the synthesis environment. It also delivers physical guidance to IC ...
Electronic Design

The "System Optimizing Compiler" Revs Up Vehicle-Electronics Design

The commonly used PC/GPU-based approach is no longer sufficient for the challenges brought on by autonomous vehicle applications. Enter the system optimizing compiler. Thanks to Moore’s law, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Advanced Design Planning In IC Compiler II

Design exploration and planning is becoming an increasingly critical step of the design creation process as growing constraints and requirements are placed upon it. IC Compiler II has been architected ...
Design-Reuse

TASKING presents compiler toolset for RISC-V in safety- and security-critical automotive applications

The new VX-Toolset for RISC-V meets the requirements of ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434. Munich, Germany, April 9, 2024 – TASKING introduces the new compiler toolset VX-Toolset for RISC-V. The industry's ...
Semiconductor Engineering

HW/SW Co-Design to Retarget the Compiler For RISC-V Custom Instructions (Tampere Univ.)

A new technical paper titled “Automatically Retargeting Hardware and Code Generation for RISC-V Custom Instructions” was published by researchers at Tampere University. “Custom instruction (CI) set ...