All I Want For Christmas … Is A Census Of Software Developers!


By Frank SchirrmeisterThe year is almost over and in my homeland of Germany, kids are preparing to appease Santa Claus and Knecht Ruprecht (the guy who gives you a rod if you misbehaved during the year) with a Christmas rhyme. I remember that as a kid, I was at one point reciting from memory the second chapter from the book of Luke: “In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census... » read more

Mapping Out The Value Of TLM Modeling


I have written about the value of system-level design and moving up to next level of abstraction numerous times. This fall one of the most interesting steps of progress towards effective system-level design and emphasis on the importance of embedded software has been made by the two big FPGA vendors Altera and Xilinx. Both vendors have announced devices combining programmable logic of up to sev... » read more

Putting Kurzweil’s Singularity To The Mobile Test


I have been fascinated by Ray Kurzweil’s book "The Singularity is Near"for a while (great book, the documentary “Transcendent Man” gives a great summary, and apparently a movie is coming up too). Bottom line Kurzweil is charting the accelerating rate of technology change. That chart hits the x-axis in 2045 and that’s the singularity as it is unclear what happens then. Do we have to adap... » read more

Ripple Effects Through Value Chains


By Frank Schirrmeister This is the inaugural post for “Frankly Speaking,” a blog focused on embedded software and system-level design technologies, their adoption as technology themselves and how they enable technology adoption in the end markets. Tracking adoption and understanding its dynamics has been a passion of mine ever since I went to engineering school. After developing lots of... » read more

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