category: Intelligent System Design

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

How Health And Auto Requirements Drive IoT Design
By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Apr, 2015 - Comments: 0

One of the fun parts of my job is that I am looking at the requirements of our customer’s customers quite a bit to understand where to focus our efforts on the tool side. As a follow on to my last post “System Design Enabling The Human Intranet,” this month I am looking at the requirements imposed on system design by health and automotive applications as they were discussed at DATE in Gre... » read more

System Design Enabling The Human Intranet
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

Against the always-impressive backdrop of the French Alps, DATE took place earlier this month in Grenoble. DATE has quietly transformed from a European version of DAC into a very interesting technical conference with some very high-caliber attendees. This year, I had the pleasure to participate as session chair for the design tools section, themed “Designing Electronics for the Internet of Th... » read more

Getting The Right Return On Invested Power Consumption
By Frank Schirrmeister - 26 Feb, 2015 - Comments: 0

Three weeks ago, I participated in a panel on low power and modeling at the system level. It took place at DesignCon 2015 in Santa Clara, together with representatives from AMD, Avago, and Qualcomm. Interestingly enough, it gave me the opportunity to set some of the myths and dis-information about power consumption in emulation straight, but more on that later. The panel was moderated by Steve ... » read more

What Will 2015 Bring For System-On-Chip Verification?
By Frank Schirrmeister - 29 Jan, 2015 - Comments: 0

Starting a new year, I always look back at predictions from years past to see how far off they were from reality and try to understand why. Rolling back 10 years, IEEE Spectrum published its annual “Winners and Losers” issue. Looking back, three predictions stick out for me. The first one is about how we consume media. Back in the January 2005 issue of IEEE Spectrum, Internet Protocol T... » read more

Top-Down SoC Verification
By Frank Schirrmeister - 18 Dec, 2014 - Comments: 0

In the world of system-on-chip (SoC) verification, 2014 was an interesting year of transition. After much discussion throughout the year about graph-based techniques and the role of software for verification, we at Cadence ended the year with a bang – last week we announced Perspec System Verifier. The customers with whom we’ve been working on this product for years tell us that this is a b... » read more

The Next Big Shift In Verification
By Frank Schirrmeister - 20 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 1

We are coming to the end of the year—have you started your Christmas shopping list yet? For us bloggers, it is time for predictions about what the next year will bring in EDA technology. Three core trends will shape 2015—even more closely connected verification engines, innovations in hardware-assisted development, and software as a driver for verification. All three core trends are r... » read more

System Design Enabling Surround Computing
By Frank Schirrmeister - 23 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

For a while now I have been wondering about the next killer application driving electronics. During CDNLive in Austin a couple of weeks ago, Dr. Lisa Su, at the time still Chief Operating Officer and since October 7th president and CEO at AMD, gave some answers at a keynote titled, “The Trends Redefining Our Industry.” The answer may well be “surround computing.” Su identified a coup... » read more

New Tools Enabling The Internet of Things
By Frank Schirrmeister - 25 Sep, 2014 - Comments: 0

Last week I attended CDNLive Boston as a speaker and was really looking forward to the keynote given by Samuel H. Fuller, CTO and VP of R&D at Analog Devices, called “The Third Exponential Wave and the Challenges Ahead”. It was great to see, re-affirmed by Dr. Fuller, a lot of my thoughts about the Internet of Things and how it requires new tools in EDA. This, by the way, conveniently t... » read more

When To Virtualize, When To Stay In The Real World
By Frank Schirrmeister - 21 Aug, 2014 - Comments: 0

Virtualization is all the craze these days. People have virtual personas on LinkedIn, Facebook and Match. I sent my daughter to a Minecraft camp at Stanford where she built virtual worlds while learning programming. Virtualization also plays an important role in chip development, especially when it comes to representing the system environment. There is, however, some crass misinformation out th... » read more

The Agony Of Hardware-Assisted Development Choices
By Frank Schirrmeister - 24 Jul, 2014 - Comments: 0

“When defining a product, if you haven’t upset at least one part of the organization, then the product is probably ill defined and tries to address too many things!” That’s what one of my mentors taught me early on in my career as product manager. Ever since then I have been interested in portfolio management. The most recent announcement that we made on the Protium Rapid Prototyping Pl... » read more

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