D&R Industry Articles (April 2007)

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Comprehensive Change Management for SoC Design

Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) are becoming increasingly complex, leading to corresponding increases in the complexity and cost of SoC design and development. We propose to address this problem by introducing comprehensive change management. Change management, which is widely used in the software industry, involves controlling when and where changes can be introduced into components so that changes can be propagated quickly, completely, and correctly.

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Silicon IP for Programmable Baseband Processing

An efficient IP reuse strategy relies on IP blocks with wide applicability. That makes generic blocks, such as programmable processors preferable. However, in many applications such as handheld wireless terminals, additional silicon area and power consumption compared to fixed function solutions can not be accepted.

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Transaction Recording, Modeling and Extensions for SystemVerilog

This paper discusses ways to improve the adoption rate by improving the usability and simplifying the modeling concepts. Using SystemVerilog we demonstrate a simplified PLI interface for recording transactions and we extend previous language standard changes to improve automation.

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Deploying Mixed Signal IP -- Is ''No Re-Spin'' Just Spin ?

One of the key benefits for the customer in the growth of the IP market has been the increasing availability of silicon proven high performance data converters, typically the bottleneck in overall system performance. So has the mixed signal IP business removed the need for the traditional mixed mode SOC re-spin?

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Integrating PCI Express IP in a SoC

Due to protocol flexibility and the wide range of supported applications, PCI Express IP usually provides extensive configurability options for optimizing the PCI Express solution for the application's needs. This paper elaborates on the PCIe IP parameterization process and provides useful tools for the PCIe solution evaluation, specification, and verification.