High-Level Design and Verification: How Can We Finally Move on From the Forrest Gump Era?
Richard Goering wrote an excellent summary of the DAC panel "High Level Synthesis Deployment: Are We Ready?," which can be found here.
His conclusion is that we are getting close, and one of the biggest hurdles still to overcome is the skill set -- the combination of hardware design expertise and C++ -- which represents an opportunity for engineers seeking a new or better career.
That is a very insightful conclusion, given what we see in terms of drivers. Both Eli Singerman of Intel and Mark Johnstone of Freescale pointed out that they cannot accomplish what they need to in terms of design productivity and complexity utilizing RTL-based flows. Referring back to Clem Meas' introduction slide, we are still designing chips using the methodology that came into vogue with Netscape Navigator and Forrest Gump.
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