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Science Fair — Redefined
By Mike Gianfagna - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Being a geek at heart from an early age, I recall entering many science fair competitions while growing up in New York. Once, I made it to the citywide finals with a model of how chain reactions happen using ball bearings. My illustrious invention career also included a seismograph, an electric arc light and a working DC motor. None of those made the cut, but they were fun to build. I’m sure ... » read more

A History of (Premature) Optimization
By Neil Johnson - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

I saw some material shared from DVCon Europe last month that suggested a competition brewing between shift left and agile in semiconductor development. As someone who’s been following shift left writing and been advocating for agile development, this kind of comparison is more than a little odd to see. It’s a comparison between two as yet amorphous development strategies, neither of which i... » read more

The “Virtual” Year Recap
By Tom De Schutter - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

There is something compelling about arriving at the end of the year and reviewing what happened during the year. In principle nothing is really different and a date is just a date, but we humans created this sense of time through well-defined boundaries of hours, days, months and years and a year-end boundary is an especially big deal. At the end of the year, we like to reflect upon the past ye... » read more

The Latest Power Management Techniques For Wearable Devices
By Warren Kurisu - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Wearable devices are popping up everywhere — across all markets. In part one of this wearables white paper series, I wrote about the market and technical factors driving the development and adoption of wearable devices. In part two, we roll up our sleeves and address one of the key requirements for wearable devices. Ah yes, power management. You don’t need super powers to see th... » read more

The Beginning
By Anupam Bakshi - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

We all want our creations to transcend time. Our products, our designs—even our specifications. Specifications are more than just ideas or collections of requirements or static collections of implementation details. They live inside many chips and many designs, and the more flexible and portable they are, the longer they remain relevant. End devices may be replaced relatively quickly, but ... » read more

Inventing Christmas
By Brian Bailey - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Christmas has been a tradition in many countries for a considerable number of years. In fact, some of the associated decorations, such as the Christmas Tree, have their roots in 16th century Germany. So you would think that by now there would not be too many new inventions that pass the tests of being novel and non-obvious to those skilled in the art. A quick search using Google yielded more... » read more

The Biggest Stories
By Ed Sperling - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

As tech journalists we are devout interpreters and re-interpreters of our own statistics. We can track how many clicks a story gets, which region or country those clicks come from, and how much interest there is in various subjects over time. The publishing industry always has been driven by data. In the early part of the 20th century, newspapers were engaged in circulation battles, which we... » read more

Outlook 2016 – The year of Horizontal and Vertical Flow Integration
By Frank Schirrmeister - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

As 2015 comes to an end rapidly, the key question becomes what the next year will bring. Last year around this time, in my blog “The Next Big Shift In Verification”, I talked about software-driven verification as the next era of verification that follows the eras of directed testing and High-level Verification Language (HVL) driven verification. I also had referred to our System Development... » read more

U.V.M. Spells Relief
By Henry Chan - 22 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

Verification can be a challenging endeavor. As designs grow in size and complexity, engineers are having difficulty confirming their designs behave properly. This is where UVM may provide some relief. UVM aims to deliver an easier and more flexible way of creating robust test environments so that you can verify those difficult designs effortlessly. So what is UVM? UVM is a verification meth... » read more

The Pain Of Change
By Ed Sperling - 24 Nov, 2015 - Comments: 0

If the still evolving shift left has taught the semiconductor industry anything, it's that nothing can be counted on to stay the same for very long. The basic proposition of doing more earlier in the design cycle to speed up time to market—and thereby shifting everything left in the linear flow—means that every silo that has been constructed over the past several decades needs to be rethoug... » read more

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