Arrow Devices

12/07/2016

Our top 9 Blog posts on chip design/verification: Trends, Technologies, Tools: There is something for everyone! http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/top-9-design-verification-blogs-trends-technologies-and-tools/

28/06/2016

Debugging even a simple protocol like I2C can be a pain! A protocol analyzer can help enormously!
http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/debugging-i2c-waveform-protocol-analyzer-easier-debug/

We have all debugged SOC and IP level issues using signal level waveforms. Its a tedious and laborious process. Are there any ways that can make design debug easier? Wouldn't it be great if I could look at fully decoded transactions instead of signal toggles? In this series of posts, we will try to…

21/06/2016

How can we simplify SOC level debug that requires knowledge of very many protocols (AXI, AHB, PCIe, USB etc). Here is how: https://lnkd.in/f4wX4kV

16/06/2016

Hardware Design/Verification engineers: Are you spending a lot of time referring to HUGE spec documents? Download our free cheat-sheets and enjoy!

http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/9-interface-protocol-cheat-sheets-to-make-your-design-verification-debug-tasks-easy/

We present you with a few cheat-sheets that can help you design, verify and debug FASTER! These cheat-sheets contain condensed spec details and information that you will need to refer frequently.

11/05/2016

Reduce your SOC debug task effort by 95%, go home by 5! http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/reduce-soc-debug-effort-by-95-go-home-at-5pm/

We did a quick comparison study of how long it took us to perform typical debug tasks; first, using just a waveform viewer and then, using our PDA protocol analysis tool along with a waveform viewer.

13/04/2016

Debugging PCIe: Using a Simulation Protocol Analyzer for faster debug!

http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/debugging-pcie-using-simulation-protocol-analyzer-for-faster-debug/

We have all debugged SOC and IP level issues using signal level waveforms. Its a tedious and laborious process. Are there any ways that can make design debug easier? Wouldn't it be great if I could look at fully decoded transactions instead of signal toggles? In this series of posts, we will try to…

24/03/2016

Debugging DDR: Waveform vs Protocol Analyzer http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/debugging-ddrn-waveform-vs-protocol-analyzer/

We have all debugged SOC and IP level issues using signal level waveforms. Its a tedious and laborious process. Are there any ways that can make design debug easier? Wouldn't it be great if I could look at fully decoded transactions instead of signal toggles? In this series of posts, we will try to…

20/03/2016

Debugging USB3: Waverom vs Protocol Analyzer - Here is how you can debug your USB3 based design easily!
http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/debugging-usb3-waveform-vs-protocol-analyzer/

We have all debugged SOC and IP level issues using signal level waveforms. Its a tedious and laborious process. Are there any ways that can make design debug easier? Wouldn't it be great if I could look at fully decoded packets and transactions instead of signal toggles? In this series of posts, we…

20/03/2016

Debugging AXI3: Waveform vs Protocol Analyzer - Here is how you can debug your AXI3 based design easily! http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/debugging-axi-waveform-vs-protocol-analyzer/

03/02/2016

Is it possible to develop high-performance EDA tools in Python?

Here is our take in this: http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/is-it-possible-to-develop-high-performance-eda-tools-in-python/

With every generation, chips have become more complex and transistor counts have increased exponentially (according to the famous Moore’s Law). This exponential growth in complexity and size has led to a corresponding growth in EDA tool data-base sizes (HDL files, simulation logs, waveform dumps, ne…

15/12/2015

http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/3-reasons-why-verification-engineers-should-use-python-instead-of-perl/

After many years of writing design verification automation scripts in Perl, we at Arrow Devices made a conscious decision to shift to Python, lock, stock and barrel. Scripting in Perl has multiple problems and so we started looking for an alternative. We looked at multiple options but finally zeroed…

20/10/2015

http://www.arrowdevices.com/blog/howto-do-protocol-level-diff-compare/

Ok, so I ran my regression tests after making a few minor RTL changes and guess what?! Some tests failed! They were passing and now they fail! Aargh! Wish I had a quick way to compare the passing and failing runs…