category: What Were They Thinking

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Verification And Validation Brothers
By Brian Bailey - 22 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

At DVCon this year, Doug Amos took the stage for the [getentity id="22017" e_name="Mentor, a Siemens Business"] sponsored lunch presentation. For those of you who were there but decided to skip the lunch, expecting the traditional forced sales pitch, you made a mistake. Amos is one of those rare people who know how to inject humor, teaching and marketing into a single presentation such that the... » read more

Why EDA Needs To Change
By Brian Bailey - 26 Feb, 2018 - Comments: 6

Why is it taking so long for [getkc id="305" kc_name="machine learning"] to have an impact within EDA? Most of the time when I talk to the experts within the field I hear about why designs are so different from other machine learning applications, and I know that is true. Many of you reading this may not be aware that I was a developer of EDA tools for more than 35 years before I ended up writi... » read more

DVCon Committee Picks
By Brian Bailey - 25 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

A typical development team contains more verification engineers than design engineers, and that skew is getting wider. You can expect the trend to increase given that verification teams are now getting loaded with added complexity from heterogeneous multi-core systems, functional safety, neural networks and security-in addition to increasing size. Companies that do not keep up with the lates... » read more

And The Winner Is…
By Brian Bailey - 21 Dec, 2017 - Comments: 0

Finding out what resonates with our readers is important, so each year I look back through the list of the best-read articles for the channels that I write for. While this simple strategy does favor articles published during the early part of the year, the fact that our readership continues to grow, partially offsets this bias. For example, in Low Power/High Performance (LPHP) a quarter of the ... » read more

Good Solutions Create Problems
By Brian Bailey - 04 Dec, 2017 - Comments: 0

I am amazed at the array of products available these days – products that I had no idea existed or needed. And yet, globalization has made it possible for anyone with an idea to get the product made cheaply and can sell it on amazon, even giving it lots of attention by claiming it is worth 10 times the cost to produce and then discounting it 80%. When 3D printing becomes a little more afforda... » read more

Technology For The Privileged
By Brian Bailey - 30 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 3

What happens when something grows quickly? It normally results in progress that is a little uncontrolled. There are no rules to govern it, there is no clearly defined end point, there is nothing that is absolute. That was the focus of the keynote given by Stacey Higginbotham at Arm TechCon. We can all see the good and the benefits that will come from progress, but we also get glimpses of wha... » read more

Getting A Standard Right The First Time
By Brian Bailey - 02 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 3

The development of standards is a tricky balance, especially when going into areas that are nascent. The [getentity id="22863" e_name="Portable Stimulus Standard"] (PSS), being developed within [getentity id="22028" e_name="Accellera"] is one of those. This could be the most important standard since [gettech id="31017" comment="Verilog"] and [gettech id="31040" comment="VHDL"]. And if there ... » read more

An Innovator’s Vision
By Brian Bailey - 28 Aug, 2017 - Comments: 1

I had the pleasure of talking with [getperson id="11764" comment="Lucio Lanza"], managing director of Lanza techVentures, when I was researching my article on design innovation earlier this month. One thing that sets successful business people apart is their ability to see patterns, to correctly identify how those patterns fit together and progress and, based on those, to know which way to evol... » read more

Data, Privacy And The IoT
By Brian Bailey - 31 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

The keynotes at this year's Design Automation Conference concentrated on the [getkc id="76" comment="Internet of Things"] (IoT). All of the speakers came from a hardware background, and thus all saw the benefits of being close to the system that is generating the data, providing the analytics, and producing some kind of action that provides the economic benefit. The alternative view comes f... » read more

Ignoring Anomalies
By Brian Bailey - 03 Jul, 2017 - Comments: 0

Everyone has been in this situation at some point in their career—you have a data point that is so far out of the ordinary that you dismiss it as erroneous. You blame the test equipment, or the fact that it is Friday afternoon and happy hour started 10 minutes ago. In most cases it may never happen again and nobody will ever notice that you quietly swept it under the rug. But in doing so, ... » read more

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