Specification Automation Articles

 By Louie de Luna, Agnisys Director of Sales and Marketing UVM has certainly improved reusability of verification environments for SoC projects, significantly lowering the verification costs throughout the electronics ...

By Louie de Luna, Agnisys Director of North American Sales and Marketing Functional flaws in our everyday electronics are annoying. Internet routers can suddenly stop working, or our smart phones can suddenly freeze. ...

As we travel professionally, sometimes we tend to miss some of the scenery along the way. We can get a bit of tunnel vision as we busy ourselves with client meetings, conferences, socializing with potential new clients, ...

Whether dealing with SoCs or a disaster in space, determining the correct set of steps is vital. No project team wants a “Houston, we have a problem,” moment. And yet, they happen all too frequently, even though there ...

While more registers means more functionality and configurability, more is not always better. No one gives much thought to the heating, ventilation and air conditioning registers in the house–typically, two in each ...

Important observations from Einstein and New England’s ice traders.. Albert Einstein defined it well: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” I have come across several ...

Wow what a marvelous year 2015 has been to Agnisys, with full of events at the various technical exhibitions, new customers, new features and new products and not to forget – new partnership. It would be unfair to say ...

The first day for exhibitors had lots of foot-traffic. Mostly casual onlookers, but a few who were genuinely interested in Agnisys. Since it was our first foray into ARM TechCon, it was good to meet new set of ...

Somewhere in the deep trenches of a UVM based verification project, an engineer teeters on the verge of insanity. As the saying goes, the faint of heart need not attempt UVM based verification. But what makes it so ...

In our domain, we automatically generate registers and memory interface which can interface with all the standard bus protocols. If we take a look at the AMBA®AXI4Lite bus protocol, it has different channels for ...

Moore’s law prediction about the increase in density of an SoC design continues to prove accurate with each advancement of technology. But, along with this, a new complexity takes shape in the form of documentation for ...

Overheard a lot of talk about “Shift Left” – which refers to the higher levels of abstraction leading to higher levels of productivity. I find that interesting as we at Agnisys have been doing this left shift since ...

We talk about creation of complex registers in IDesignSpec, generation of their suitable RTL and UVM models. The Software addressable registers in your design do not always just have simple read-write access. Sometimes ...

So we have been working in the register specification space for a long time. We came out with the IDesignSpec tool around 2010. Five years of constant refinement and evolution based on the customer feedback has created ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. They have adopted Agnisys producs.

I feel like a bumblebee, going from the DVCon in US, to the next one in India to then to Europe.  All this cross-pollination is exciting and enriching when experiencing the needs of the Semiconductor design engineers ...

DVCon had a solid start in Bangaluru, India.  The audited attendee numbers will be coming in later, but we believe we had approximately 425+ delegates. That is truly amazing for the first year of the event! For me, it ...

It is penultimate day – the day before the big event! Preparing and launching the first ever DVCon India event feels like taxiing a plane down the runway, ready to take off.  It is new; the design was replicated from ...

Register Generation is a Must-Have Capability Today’s SoC designs contain several thousands of registers and memory map elements. The design team must, from the architecture, create the register and memory map ...

Modern SoCs get more and more complicated each and every day.  As the complexity of modern electronic semiconductor device design increases, niche tools for every nook and cranny of the design process emerge to help ...

System on Chip Design Challenges – The Highlight of DAC Day 2 It was a very busy day for Agnisys on the second day of the Design Automation Conference. On day two, we learned how much our products address System on Chip ...

Recently at the sidelines of DAC, Anupam Bakshi, CEO of Agnisys, Inc. sat down with Karen Bartleson, Director of Community Marketing at Synopsys to discuss a very important topic that is close to the heart of the ...

IDesignSpec generates several outputs from a single spec, evolving into an executable spec tool for digital design. Here's how we ensure its quality.

Published on 05-19-2013 07:30 PM in Semiwiki It goes without saying that registers play a vital role in designing any ASIC, FPGA, SoC or System. In today’s world, while designing SoC with multiple IPs and ...

Agnisys Inc. was established in 2007 in Massachusetts, USA, with a mission to deliver innovative automation to the semiconductor industry. The company offers affordable VLSI design and verification tools for SoCs, FPGAs ...

Launching new capability to specify Sequences in IDesignSpec

Going to DAC had a boosting effect on us.

We had a great first day at DAC. All the talk about recession and economic doom were hard to believe. People were enthusiastic and upbeat. Even the guys and gals looking for work were upbeat and were considering it to ...

I’m thrilled. Finally, we have a customer who sees the value that IDesignSpec brings for his company. We are indeed thankful to them for trusting our technology. I think this is validation of the concepts on which this ...

Business schools teach us that the way to set the price on a product has nothing to do with the cost. You sell it at a price that the market can afford. Semiconductor industry was able to afford heavy price tags on EDA ...

As you know we have created a brand new EDA tool that saves people a lot of time and money. Ok you have heard that before. But this is real 🙂 Ok so you have heard *that* before too! So how do I convince you to take a ...

I’m so excited … After years of work, my team and I have converted a word processor into an Engineering tool. Its like the Gene in Arabian Nights who says ” your wish is my command” … except in this case, your word is ...