About Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Industry

This repository site lists my learnings of having been associated with the EDA industry for over 8 years now. EDA industry has taken huge leaps. The basic slide-deck is an effort made to make user aware of the Electronics Industry, and then appreciate the contributions of the latest advancements in EDA industry towards Electronics. The slide-deck is accessible from here.

Building Virtual Platforms

Virtual platforms are pieces of software that when glued together help us in mimicing the behavior of a physical hardware.

The physical target could be any one of the following:

Can be a plain digital system, or
An analog system, or
A mixed-signal system (Analog + Digital)

Virtual platforms have really come of age. I’ll be more interested in to pertain the discussions to two topics of interest here:

System-on-Chip (SoC)
Network-on-Chip (NoC)

About the Learning Curve

Well, learning a new domain is always challenging. But, it is fun too. Before diving in to know more about virtual prototying, it is good to start with few basic refreshers. The plan is to appreciate few concepts encompassing

simulations v/s emulations:
basic digital-logic
virtual prototyping using Accellera SystemC
some analogy with HDL (VHDL more specifically)
faster modelling concepts using TLM