category: What Were They Thinking

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Dealing With Market Shifts
By Brian Bailey - 28 Oct, 2021 - Comments: 1

Back in the days when I was in EDA development, I was taken in by the words of Clayton Christensen when he published "The Innovators Dilemma." He successfully introduced the technology world to the ideas of disruptive innovation. One of the key takeaways was that you should always be working to make your own successful products redundant, or someone else will do it for you. One tool I worked... » read more

Wearables Disconnect
By Brian Bailey - 23 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

One of the great opportunities created by the pandemic is a result of conferences going online. I know many people miss the social aspects of not being able to get together with your thousand closest friends, who you see every year at the same shows, but requiring a physical presence is limiting in both time and expense. Personally, I have used the opportunity to "attend" conferences that I wou... » read more

Education Vs. Training
By Brian Bailey - 26 Aug, 2021 - Comments: 1

While writing my recent articles on the subject of training, a number of people pointed out that training and education are not the same thing. In a very simple sense, training is defined to be learning a skill or behavior that enables you to 'do' something, whereas education is the acquisition of knowledge from study or training. These definitions leave me cold and, in my mind, miss a very ... » read more

Rethink, Not Replicate
By Brian Bailey - 29 Jul, 2021 - Comments: 0

We should start to call COVID the Great Disrupter. It caused many things to change, ranging from how the industry has been tackling education, to supply chains, the ability to find products in stores, and the pricing and availability of materials, workers, and office space. I can't see anyone fully trusting just-in-time supply chains anymore, even though they sometimes provided financial advant... » read more

Pitching To Your Audience
By Brian Bailey - 24 Jun, 2021 - Comments: 2

One of the most time-consuming parts of being a journalist is listening to enough people to get all sides of a story. Writing the story is often the easy part. What makes listening more difficult is that there are detail people and concept people, but few that sit in the middle. Some people love to get down into the details about the latest feature they have just implemented in a tool, or wh... » read more

A Price To Be Paid
By Brian Bailey - 27 May, 2021 - Comments: 1

Ancient wisdom says you should be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it. This was certainly true many times during my career within EDA, and I am sure it is still happening today. Sometimes the outcome was not what was wanted, or the price was higher than expected. As an example, consider VHDL, the language that was meant to correct the problems of Verilog. One of the probl... » read more

Technology Access Discriminates
By Brian Bailey - 22 Apr, 2021 - Comments: 3

I try not to get on a soap box in my blogs, but I hope you will allow me to express a concern that I see building and the projection of an unintended outcome. I am talking about who does and does not have access to technology. Over time, this divide can cause a further division based on geography, income level, or some other factor. The ramifications of it are not realized until it is too late.... » read more

Stuck In A Rut
By Brian Bailey - 25 Mar, 2021 - Comments: 4

In the DVCon panel session about open-source verification, the first part of which has been published along with this blog, you will read about a fiery debate between the panelists. This is regarding the ability of the EDA industry to innovate. On one side is the accusation that there has been no real innovation since 1988. On the other side, there have been fantastic advances have been made th... » read more

The Single Greatest Opportunity For Open Source
By Brian Bailey - 25 Feb, 2021 - Comments: 7

Next week, I will be moderating a panel at the virtual DVCon on the subject of open-source verification. I thought it would be good to advertise the event on LinkedIn to see if anyone wanted to send me well-structured questions for the panelists. What happened surprised me a little because the discussions almost exclusively went to the need for open-source verification tools. In my opinion, the... » read more

Von Neumann Upset
By Brian Bailey - 28 Jan, 2021 - Comments: 0

My recent article about the von Neumann architecture received some quite passionate responses, including one that thought I was attempting to slight the person. That was most certainly not the intent, given that the invention enabled a period of very rapid advancement in computers and technology in general. The process of invention and engineering are both quite similar and yet different. In... » read more

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