The formal documentation for the phases of the system development life cycle. It defines the precise objectives for each phase and the results required from a phase before the next one can begin. It ...

Verification is the single biggest challenge in the design of system-on-chip (SoC) devices and reusable IP blocks. Traditional verification methods struggle to keep pace with the ever-increasing size ...

Last week, I wrote several blog entries that discussed old and obsolete ideas contained in the popular and successful Reuse Methodology Manual (the RMM), which ushered in the SOC era back in 1997. I ...

Information systems development methodologies (ISDMs) encompass a broad spectrum of systematic frameworks designed to guide the planning, design, implementation, testing and maintenance of complex IT ...

Nowadays, System Engineers are placed in the centre of two antagonist flows: microelectronic systems are increasingly complex whilst the time budget for development is constantly shrinking. Even if ...