Blog Review: August 27
Either most people are catching their breath before post-Labor Day madness sets in or we’re stuck inside some really bad horror movie where bloggers fall asleep and wake up as someone else. The bottom line is there isn’t a whole lot of activity lately, and we’re thanking our lucky stars for the intrepid handful that survived.
Speaking of bad movies, check out the cheesy video from Cadence’s Jack Erickson and the Dante Semi team about adopting low-power design techniques. It could well rank up there with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Plan 9 from Outer Space as a low-budget cult favorite—even if it’s only for a narrow slice of the highly educated world. We particularly like Cronk the Marketing Dude, if that gives you any incentive to watch this. He looks like he walked in off a Geico commercial.
And speaking of Cadence, what’s with that weird image on Stacy Whiteman’s blog about Virtuoso? Who spiked the water fountain? (By the way, you’ll have to get to it via the home page instead of a direct link, because the direct link loses the picture and replaces it with a screen shot.)
Mentor’s Colin Walls looks at multicore and multiple operating systems from the standpoint of a software engineer working among hardware engineers. What’s interesting is the difference in languages and focus by software and hardware engineers. This is like a Rosetta Stone for systems engineers. File this one away somewhere.
Synopsys’ Wei-Hua Han talks about applying class factory to VMM so users can replace objects, transactions, scenarios and transactors with similar objects anywhere in the verification environment. This is good insight for verification engineers.
And for power-gated design, have you thought about adding a decoupling capacitor? Synopsys’ Godwin Maben has. It’s short and meaty for anyone working in this space.
–Ed Sperling
Tags: Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys