The bridge design pattern can be used to decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that both can be changed independent of each other Design patterns are proven solutions to recurring ...

The concept of applying a higher level of design abstraction to creative and engineering processes is so closely familiar that we probably take it for granted. From NC machines to SQL database systems ...

About 15 years ago, the assumption in the EDA industry was that system design would be inevitable. The transition from gate-level design to a new entry point at the register transfer level (RTL) ...

IP reuse has reduced the urgency for a higher level of abstraction in complex system-level design, but that still could change. Chip designers have been constantly searching for a hardware description ...

For a decade now, mainstream complex ASIC design and verification has been done at one level of abstraction. Logic is captured, tests are generated, simulations are analyzed, and IP is delivered at ...

As discussed in Part 1, this article proposes four steps to raise the abstraction level of current Verilog HDL designs and provide a phase wise approach to migrate to SystemVerilog. In Part 1 we ...

The opening-night Design Automation Conference reception last night featured a panel discussion that faced-off senior design managers against senior marketing folks from the technology infrastructure.

This course covers abstraction and design in computation. Topics include functional and object-oriented styles of programming, software engineering in the small, and models of computation. The goal is ...