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Why the OSCI-Accellera Merger?
Posted by stan on Dec 12, 2011 in Standards
By now most of you will have heard and read about the merger Accellera and OSCI into the Accellera Systems Initiative. A question that may linger after reading various press accounts is “why a merger”? There are, of course, synergies in standards to be discovered and exploited– anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of current EDA [...]
Larry, Larry, Larry!
Posted by stan on Dec 5, 2011 in Standards
On Sunday, December 4, Larry Saunders received the Ron Waxman award from the IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC) for extraordinary service to the DASC. A back injury kept me from attending the awards ceremony, but it did not keep me from recalling Larry’s seminal work. Larry was first chair of the 1076 (VHDL) Working [...]