Last week, while watching a video of my friend Dave Jones tear down an old Fluke 91 ScopeMeter DSO (digital sampling oscilloscope), I suddenly realized that this 20-year-old piece of test gear brought the decade-long decline of ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) design starts into sharp relief.

Proven Verification IP for SoCs Is Based on AXI and ACE Specifications

ASIC development costs are rising, which make FPGAs an attractive and advantageous alternative - in some cases.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 4, 2011 – MoSys (NASDAQ: MOSY), a leading provider of serial chip-to-chip communications solutions that deliver unparalleled bandwidth performance for next generation networking systems and advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs, has successfully demonstrated interoperability of its Bandwidth Engine® IC with the SerDes characterization and evaluation board from Avago Te