Biggest Hits and Trends from ARM TechCon

The recent ARM® TechCon Conference in Santa Clara was definitely the front-runner of my favorite conferences that I attended this year. Fun, informative and filled with software engineers, physical designers, design verification teams, and hardware engineers – ARM TechCon was the place to be to learn about the latest innovations from the embedded industry. Aldec was there showcasing our HES-DVM™ and HES-7™ platforms, which enable engineers to utilize emulation and FPGA-based prototyping to verify the latest ARM designs.

One of the biggest trends I observed from EDA vendors at TechCon was Emulation with the latest and greatest ARM processors (bigLittle, Cortex, etc.). A major issue designers are facing is OS bootup – so incorporating Virtual Platforms and ARM models with emulation platforms was definitely a hot topic at the Aldec booth.  Also, In-Circuit Emulation (ICE) was gaining recognition for allowing verification teams to utilize real-time interfaces with their emulation platforms. Aldec showcased the HES-7 SoC DB, which utilizes a Xilinx® Zynq™ SoC with dual-core ARM Cortex®-A9 processors, and demod a Linux bootup running a simple Hello World to the user.

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Tags: Aldec, ARM, arm processors, arm techcon conference, arm-based processors, co-simulation, dual-core arm cortex-A9 processors, Emulation, hes-7 platforms, hes-7 soc db, HES-DVM, hw/sw verification platform, ICE, In-circuit emulation, prototyping, rtl simulation, SoC, SoC and ASIC Prototyping, Xilinx, xilinx zynq soc

Category: Emulation/Acceleration

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