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Who Cares?
A couple years ago, the raging topic was DFM, with a heavy focus on litho issues. Curiously enough, part of the conversation consisted of the…
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Using a Hierarchical Approach to Tame SoC Debug Anarchy
Imagine you’re a private detective and someone hands you a picture. In that picture you see a slim young man in a bathing suit holding…
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I Are An Embedded Engineer
“So… what is it you do, again?” How many times have you been asked that question? How many times explaining your career choice to family…
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ESL Gambit
In 1995, I strutted my marketing suit onto the stage at the Design Automation Conference and told the world that a revolution was afoot. I…
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Showdown at the “Is My Design OK?” Corral
There’s a battle shaping up as yet another entrant into the assertion synthesis field makes some noise this week. We’ve kept an eye on assertion…
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Trading Cards and the Art of Verification
When I was younger, I briefly became very interested in collecting trading cards – primarily baseball cards. It was always exciting to sort through my…
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ARM and Microsoft
When, at CES, Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows would run on the ARM architecture, it was the signal for a commentators’ feeding…
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Fun With Family Planning
Altera has just released specifics on their upcoming 28nm families, with a data dump that would make Wikileaks proud. At the highest level, there will…