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Evaluating a Design Data Management System

Evaluating any EDA tool has several challenges. You have several tools and vendors to choose from. You have to get past the marketing hype to determine what is really important to you and whether the supported feature set meets your requirements. Finally, you have to make sure that the features you need perform as advertised. And, of course, you have to do this evaluation while juggling all your other tasks.

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Acquiring More Addicts

Last summer we took a look at the fact that formal verification is seeing something of a repositioning and resurgence. The holiest of holies is the ability to verify that all possible use cases of a piece of logic have been specified and that all possible outcomes of those use cases have been verified to operate as desired.

It can be viewed as a big jump from no formal verification to the complete set; it’ … Read More → "Acquiring More Addicts"

Penguins, Bees, Cathedrals and Wikis

This was going to be such a simple piece: a quick look at some of the developments in the use of open source in the embedded arena, a quick update on Eclipse, perhaps a comparison of the positive and negative aspects of open source compared with proprietary tools, and a final summary.

Unfortunately, I began to become more and more aware that the open source landscape is changing and that a new paradigm is appearing. The Oxford English Dictionary defines paradigm as “a pattern or model, an exemplar.” I am using it here, not in … Read More → "Penguins, Bees, Cathedrals and Wikis"

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