I am delighted to be able to return to EE Times as a regular columnist/blogger after a sixteen year absence, with my Entrepreneurial Engineer Blog. Richard Wallace, now blogging at “The Next Silicon Valley“, asked me to write “Nickel Tours of the ‘Net” which cataloged the impact of the Internet on Electronic Design as websites […]
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Highlights from an interview with Kurt Keutzer as part of the 2010 Design Automation Conference. He uses Foster’s S-curve from “Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage” to offer perspective on EDA.
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Here is my roundup of blog posts about the 2010 Design Automation Conference. You can also follow the #47DAC hashtag on twitter for breaking announcements during the conference. Last year’s roundup is available a DAC 2009 Blog Coverage Roundup. Original intro: If you write a blog post that reviews an event, a day, or DAC
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We are working with a semantic technology firm to develop a new portal that will track EDA related blog posts and other content announced via an RSS, Atom, or other feed protocol . Our goal is to provide a richer level of aggregation and analysis than an RSS reader with 200 feeds offers today (see
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I covered the EDAC CEO Panel last Thursday for EETimes, what follows is a copy of the article I wrote for them “EDA Chiefs Hazard No Guesses on 2010 Market (02/19/2010 7:12 PM EST)” It differs from the version on-line at EET only in that I have added some links for context. SAN JOSE, Calif.—With
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Sometimes paradigms do shift. Amazon announced today that its Elastic Cloud Computing now supports high memory instances: High-Memory Instances Instances of this family offer large memory sizes for high throughput applications, including database and memory caching applications. High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34.2 GB of memory, 13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25
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With Synopsys announcing Synphony, a high-level design compiler that reads in MATLAB M code and generates RTL and some other useful outputs, and Mathworks listed in Gary Smith’s ESL 2009 Wallchart, I wonder if it doesn’t make sense to define MATLAB as an ESL language and Mathworks as an EDA player. Harry Gries provides a
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I am happy to be able to offer another guest blog by Nanette Collins, her first was on “Volunteering, Lessons Learned from the Trenches.” Nanette is an entrepreneur in her own right, she is the principal at Nanette V. Collins Marketing and PR with offices in Boston and San Francisco and one the web at
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Ed Lee and I have continued our conversation about the changing media landscape for EDA and addressed some issues that are relevant to getting back to growing the pie in EDA. What follows is an excerpts from Ed’s blog “What’s PR Got To Do With It?” with some hyperlinks added to provide more context, the
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From the EDAC website “EDA Consortium News” page the last six quarters of EDA Industry Revenue announcements (all numbers in millions): Jul-3-08: Q1/08 declined 1.2% to 1350.7 vs. $1366.8 in Q1/07. Oct-9-08: Q2/08 declined 3.7% to $1357.4 vs. $1408.8 in Q2/07 Jan-12-09: Q3/08 declined 10.9% to $1258.6 vs. $1412.1 in Q3/07. Apr-7-09: Q4/08 declined 17.7%
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“When Achilles Test Systems first started working with SKMurphy our product was complicated and our message was even more complex. SKMurphy helped us focus our product on a market that we could succeed in and create a message that was sharp, crisp and quickly show value add. They helped us understand that people’s attention spans
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I was on the “Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current?” panel at the 2009 Design Automation Conference. The panel was moderated by Michael Sanie of Maestro International and my fellow panelists were Ron Wilson, Executive Editor EDN Magazine, and John Busco, CAD Design Implementation Manager at NVIDIA. What follows is my notes
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A couple of high level impressions. Here my notes from the “Managing Project Health” BoF at DAC 2009. After sitting through the presentations back to back I saw the outline of a four layer model for design management data stability – essentially what companies like Cliosoft or open source tools like CVS offer provisioning –
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I suggested that the “Managing Project Health” Birds of a Feather was one of the “Opportunities for Serious Conversation at DAC 2009” and it proved to be a very thought provoking session. When design teams try and assess “Project Health” they are normally trying to determine where they are (or what’s been accomplished and what
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See DAC 2010 Blog Coverage Roundup for 2010 Roundup. Sunday Events Daniel Payne on Sunday at DAC – What really happens in the Press Room? Grant Martin on “Day 0 of DAC…Welcome Reception“ Richard Goering on “Gary Smith’s Prescription for Explosive Growth“ Frank Schirrmeister on “#46DAC Is On The Way…With Guaranteed Standing Ovation“ John Donovan
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May 11, 1994 I published this “List of Net Resources for the EDA User” in “Radio Free CAD CAE Issue 4” gopher kona.ee.pitt.edu 70 for SIGDA Archives e-mail acmhelp@acm.org for ACM (SIGDA parent) membership info ftp ftp.ieee.org for IEEE membership info gopher gopher.ieee.org for IEEE membership info e-mail info.index@ieee.org for IEEE membership info e-mail cfi@cfi.org
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Ed Lee and I walk around the changing media landscape for EDA: it’s a complex and evolving situation that we share our perspectives on.
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This is an update of my May 28, 2008 post “Bloggers Covering Design Automation” which I have subsequently updated in place approximately every two weeks for the last 13 months. The list was originally about 60 and has grown since then. At the time I started tracking blogs, neither Cadence nor Mentor had started their
One of the great opportunities that a conference affords is face to face conversation among knowledgeable people. It’s not that technologies for conversation and collaboration at a distance are not effective, but they are more effective if they build on face to face conversations. Conferences allow for both serendipity and structure in serious conversations. At
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Rajeev Madhavan has founded three companies, ultimately taking Magma Design Automation public. We cover his background and lessons learned as a successful serial entrepreneur.
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