By Ed Sperling
Just in time for the holidays. Cadence’s Tom Anderson finds some real-world assertions, including some embarrassing typos that can change the meaning—and value—of products. Details, details. Santa, you delivered the wrong present to the wrong house on the wrong day.
Mentor’s Jay Gorajia digs into the guidelines for production planning and scheduling. There’s a lot of really good information here. Take notes.
Synopsys’ Hannah Watanabe pulls together the best of the company’s recent Interoperability Forum, which featured speakers from ST, ARM, Accellera and some private venture capitalists. There are a lot of road maps to study. So little time, such small features.
Cadence’s Richard Goering reports on a panel about how power minimization and optimization dominate front-end design. That seems to be the consensus everywhere, and the problem isn’t going away.
Semico’s Joanne Itow attends Semicon Japan and finds lots of optimism for the future, particularly in the used equipment market. There’s a lot of good insight about the intricacies of this market, including some unexpected tidbits.
DeepChip’s John Cooley surveys the market about concerns over Synopsys’ acquisition of Magma. The biggest negatives involve less competition. But why are the 10% who are in favor of this move and the 9% who are neutral so quiet?
Mentor’s Colin Walls does take two on RTOS test harnesses, and where and when to use them. Given the focus on software debugging and test, this is a very good topic.
Synopsys’ Doug Amos looks at deadlines and what can go wrong. Sorry, Christmas has been canceled this year.
Cadence’s Jack Erickson points to a high-level synthesis discussion by Freescale engineers involving a C-to-silicon FPGA prototype based on control logic rather than dominated by the datapath. This is a twist.
And in case you missed the most recent issue of the System-Level Design newsletter, here are some standout blogs:
–Mentor’s Jon McDonald looks at the tradeoffs between AT and LT.
–Cadence’s Frank Schirrmeister brings good tidings and not-so-good tidings for software developers.
– Synopsys’ Achim Nohl talks about ways to improved battery life with virtual prototypes.
–Sonics’ Frank Ferro zeroes in on what makes a product successful. Hint: It’s more than just the technology.
–Arteris’ Kurt Shuler takes a children’s story and applies it to the semiconductor IP industry.
–Atrenta’s Mike Gianfagna makes some predictions about how the EDA industry will change in 2012. If they come true, there will be more dropping next New Year’s Eve than a ball.
–Methodics’ Simon Butler tracks the challenges in design and IP management across the globe and finds similar problems everywhere.
