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From One Pot to Another
A number of years ago, Coventor created a program called SEMulator 3D. Its target usage was for developing MEMS processes and devices, MEMS devices traditionally…
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When the Silicon Doesn’t Matter
So let me get this straight. On one hand, we’ve got a multimillion-transistor chip fabricated in bleeding-edge 22 nm technology – one of the most…
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Aldec Heads to Hardware
There are certain companies that seem to make their living with what some marketers call a “fast follower” strategy. The principle is sound and simple.…
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Temporary Storage
They just kept going and going. Or at least that’s what we’re led to believe. And how would we know if it could still keep…
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Camels Have Their Role in Life
Some years ago, when anyone wanted to be rude about the Ada programming language, they would drag out the old saying about a camel being…
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Daybreak at 20nm
The crushing exponential onslaught of Moore’s Law is a harsh mistress. Each new process node demands a new round of superlatives and introduces a new…
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Bigger and Smaller
Things are getting bigger and smaller. It’s the way of technology: two so-far unstoppable trends, one inexorable and much ballyhooed, the other more cautious and…
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Debugging Gets Its Own OS
“If debugging is the act of removing bugs, then programming must be the act of inserting them.” So goes the old axiom about embedded development.…
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Automating FPGA Verification
The definition of what FPGA really means has changed dramatically over the last two decades. Whether blazing the trail or being on the trailing edge of…
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Injecting Automation into FPGA Verification On Demand Seminar Series
This 3-part series will help you get started with using assertions for debug, code coverage for providing coverage, and UVM Express for improving your testbenches…