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Targeting Internal-State Scenarios in an Uncertain World
Verifying internal design states is the unheralded bugbear of chip design today. Even the preliminary step of identifying and exercising the panoply of operating modes…
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Is ARM a Choice or Isn’t It?
Flip a coin. Will it come up heads, tails, or edge? Earlier we talked about how the CPU and MCU choices are boiling down to…
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Don’t Rush to Judgment
Mahler’s Symphony #9 is a masterpiece of symphonic literature. Written in 1909-1910, it was Mahler’s last symphony, and it was considered by many to be…
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Municipal Clock Design
Picture yourself living in a big city with lots of traffic. That could be anywhere in the world. Now picture that city with a robust…
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Testing This Web Page
This is very pithy test content. It will be deleted as soon as I’ve confirmed pages work correctly.
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Does the World Need a New Verification Technology?
Verification is one of those perennial problems. I long ago lost count of the white papers I have read and the presentations I have sat…
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The Secret
“…It works the same as assertions in System Verilog,” he said. I quickly nodded my head — maybe too quickly. “Oh, OK, I see,” I…
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Electromechanical Interlocutor
Let’s say you form a group in the United States with the purpose of setting up “offices” or camps in various impoverished foreign countries for…
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Does Local Mean Sustainable?
Last year I covered a small local company run by Adam Wegener that makes small, portable speakers that appeal in particular to youthful types. Called…
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A Two-Horse Race
They say competition improves the breed. In free markets, startup companies can compete with massive corporations. In sport, young self-trained upstarts from little-known backwater nations…