Its use results in faster development, cleaner testbenches, and a modern software-oriented approach to validating FPGA and ASIC designs without replacing your existing simulator.

Digital hardware design typically is done using a specialized language, called a hardware description language (HDL). This approach is based on the idea that hardware design has unique requirements.

Researchers from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in Changsha have introduced a first-of-its-kind framework, PyABV, that seamlessly integrates assertion-based verification into the ...

In our “hardware development gets serious” news, we’ve recently learned about AllSpice, a startup building hardware development collaboration infrastructure for companies. Hardware developers are ...

This is the prototype board for [Travis Goodspeed’s] new USB development tool called the Facedancer. He took on the design with USB security exploits in mind, but we think it’s got a lot of potential ...

Editor’s Note: Over the past decade, agile development has proven itself as an effective approach for delivering software quickly, at high quality and responsive to fast-changing customer and market ...