Assuring Software Quality
In my last blog I discussed the importance of support and the value it provides in the physical verification space. As indicated, one of the key components in providing support is having an infrastructure helps to assure quality software releases in the first place. In this blog, I will provide more insight into the procedures in place within the Calibre organization that help to ensure the high standards … Read More
Tags: DRC, Mentor, Calibre, quality, physical verificaiton, pv
For those of you who didn’t make it to DVCon this year, you missed one of the things that makes the conference worth attending - the free goodies in the registration packet. Clearly the most interesting and informative such item was the February edition of our Verification Horizons newsletter (for which this blog was named). As both the editor of VH and the General Chair of DVCon, I could not have been … 
In last week’s blog I talked about what was going on at Embedded World and made some observations about what seemed to be “hot”. I have been thinking about this and wondering which topics, technologies or products embedded software engineers actually think are important, interesting or exciting. Obviously trend surveys and the like give some indication, but I realized that I already had a tool at my … 
We form opinions quickly these days and increasingly we gravitate toward those who agree with us and tune out opposing arguments. It happens with political and social issues and it’s happening with Toyota as the company struggles to determine the cause(s) of unintended acceleration. Some have empathy while others delight in the company’s difficulties.
One problem with polarization is that details can … 
Last time I promised I’d drill down into more detail about the difference between the CAD-integrated up-front approach to CFD and CAD-embedded Concurrent CFD. CAD-integrated CFD tools are essentially stand-alone tools launched from within the CAD system whereas Concurrent CFD is fully built into the CAD system. So what’s the real difference between the two?
CAD-integrated CFD tools use the same approach … 
Conduction, the transfer of heat through a solid object. Convection, the transfer of heat in moving air/fluid. Radiation, the transfer of heat from one solid surface to cooler solid surface in ‘line of sight’. The 3 modes of heat transfer are your enemy when it comes to thermal insulation of built environments. Heat is as sly as a fox when it comes to squirming its way out of a space to the cool outside. … 
DesignCon is a major event for EEs working on leading edge hardware design and semiconductor activities. The event takes place annually in the Silicon Valley and it’s never a waste of time to attend it. After each conference, the organizing International Engineering Consortium (IEC) designates DesignCon Paper Award Winners. And it’s quite insightful to see which papers and which kind of topics receive … 
In the automotive industry we have always talked about the cost of reliability in terms of the warantee expense that they incur when they have a problem. You can justify a lot of tool and designer expense based on the cost of one failure that requires a warantee fix. Turns out warantee costs are a drop in the bucket compared to the cost in sales and credibility being experienced by Toyota.
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