Battery life has become theAchilles heel for the success of mobile software platforms, such as Android.The mileage users can get from their battery is severely impacted by software.Software implicitly ...

Transaction analysis and debug between multiple abstraction levels is now possible with current technology. This paper will present an API and implementation for recording transactions from SystemC, C ...

Amongst various pre-silicon solutions, Software Simulation Platforms have always been the preferred environment due to early availability, ease of use, ease of access, lower cost as compared to FPGAs ...

Debugging embedded designs is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of observed and possible interactions between hardware and software continue to grow, and as more features are crammed into ...

There’s an old saying about simulation: “It’s all about the need for speed.” Simulation is the core technology for functional verification of semiconductors, and the demand for higher runtime ...

I'm mostly an Analog type of guy, but I write code and I do my share of embedded design. It's hard to ignore the power that those little single chip processors give us in our complex analog designs.

For as long as I have been programming (almost two decades now), I’ve used some form of a print statement for debugging purposes. Using print statements is a good way to trace through your code and ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...