Hardware description languages
Simulating tomorrow’s chips
April 13, 2012
A new system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design and more reliable.
Also labeled: BlueSpec, Chip architecture, Computer chips, Design, Multicore, Parallel computing, Simulation, Field-programmable gate arrays
Streamlining chip design
December 8, 2011
Designers of mobile devices need to think hard about which functions to implement in hardware and which in software. A new programming language makes that much easier.

