Design verification has been the biggest challenge for any IC design company for decades now. EDA tools and verification methods have evolved a lot over the last two decades, but along with that, the ...

The title “analog debugging” seems a bit enigmatic. After reading it, an embedded firmware developer may suffer from cognitive dissonance; but trust me, it will make sense later. What the title ...

Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

Debug consumes more time than any other aspect of the chip design and verification process, and it adds uncertainty and risk to semiconductor development because there are always lingering questions ...

In a typical system-on-a-chip (SoC) development project, chip architects will make a given SoC’s initial specification available to design teams years in advance of the silicon. As requirements change ...

This guide will show you how to debug Python code with the help of Google Bard. Debugging Python code often presents a significant challenge, particularly for those who are new to programming. This ...

Scan is a structured test approach in which the overall function of an integrated circuit (IC) is broken into smaller structures and tested individually. Every state element (D flip-flop or latch) is ...

On various occasions, I’ve received inquiries about how to install and start using WinDbg. For this reason, in this post, I’m going to show you how to configure an environment with WinDbg and virtual ...

What are the RISC-V External Debug Support Version 0.13.2 specifications? Advantages of a using high-level-language debugger. The role of the ubiquitous breakpoints in debugging. How trace is ...

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