Arm, Intel and Nvidia have jointly authored a paper describing an 8-bit floating point (FP8) specification and its two variants E5M2 and E4M3 to provide a common interchangeable format that works for ...

The iterations a specification goes through in a given project. Are chip design and verification specs, and hardware and software specs, separate entities? Automation of the specification process.

San Diego – An IC test consortium backed by Intel Corp. and Advantest Corp. released its first hardware and software specifications last week to enable an “open architecture” for automatic test ...

One of the most challenging tasks in embedded designs involving system-on-chip technologies is cosynthesis. Many approaches have been attempted. Some consisted of mapping the specification on a ...

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...

Buying a new computer requires both knowledge and research. Apart from knowing the best time to buy a new computer, or the most popular websites to potentially get it at the lowest price, you also ...

The PXI Systems Alliance (PXISA– San Diego, Calif.), a global non-profit organization dedicated to promoting PXI (PCI Extensions for Instrumentation) technology, announces the release of new PXI 2.1 ...

As service providers build out their broadband packet networks to offer enhanced triple-play services, telecom OEMs (TEMs) are working overtime to provide the equipment needed to deploy those services ...

The core concepts in hardware-software co-design are getting another look, nearly two decades after this approach was first introduced and failed to catch on. What’s different this time around is the ...