OK, so is the “X word” in the title just a cheap ploy to get your attention? Not really, we are naturally attracted by things that are considered “sexy”. What could be less sexy than a PCB manufacturing assembly shop-floor I hear you think? Let’s put aside right now those childish innuendoes that many a young engineer like myself, once upon a time went through as a rite of passage, such-as, “make sure … Read More
Tags: MES, MSS, Lean, Valor, Visibility
Phones are now smart apparently. This has come as quite a shock and one that I’m still trying to reconcile with my expectations. The first mobile phone patent was issued 102 years ago. To reach the dizzying heights of smartness in that time is quite good going. I can only assume that over the next century the intelligence of phones will evolve to a level where they will dispense with the need for humans … Read More
Tags: Smartphone
Late July… Summer is upon us in all its splendor… But the show goes on. In the past few days two interesting articles related to High-Level Synthesis (HLS) were published, in EETimes and EDN, respectively.
Tips for implementing a viable ESL-synthesis flow
In EDN, Nancy Wu – Chief Analyst at Gary Smith EDA – addresses engineers “about to make plunge” and discusses items to help them set … Read More
Tags: High-Level Synthesis, How-to, Gary Smith, Learning, Verification
Every industry or industry sub-sector has its movers and shakers, its pioneers and thought leaders. These people have likely helped shape and evolve that industry to what it is today and what it may become in the future. For this series of ‘An Interview With…’ blog posts I will be posing the same set of questions to leading lights in the electronics cooling community to get their views on various thermal … Read More
For years one of the objectives in EDA has been to make formal property checking easy to use and its results easy to understand. With the Automatic formal check feature in the June release of the 0-In Formal tool version 3.0, I think we have made significant progress in this area.
The feature, which predefines a set of assertion rules to look for design issues automatically, makes formal technology … Read More
Tags: automatic formal check, formal property checking, Assertion-Based Verification, RTL, SVA, Formal Verification, functional coverage
I have a very basic question for you: what do you do and why do you do it? It is quite possible that, if you are reading this, you are an embedded software engineer. It is interesting to consider what that job actually entails. First off, how would you reply to the “What do you do?” question from someone you meet in a pub/bar? You would probably say Software Engineer, but they might ask you to expand … Read More
Tags: Source Code, Embedded Software
What does the word performance mean to you?
Speed? Well, obviously speed is an important characteristic. Yet, if the team is running in the wrong direction, it really doesn’t matter how fast they are going.
How about accomplishment? After all, we do assess an employee’s or project team’s accomplishments using a process we refer to as a performance review.
What about efficiency, which is a ratio comparing … Read More
Tags: Formal Verification, Functional Verification, Add new tag, Simulation
Have you ever been stuck in traffic and envied the motorcyclist who can ride between lanes? It would be nice to be able to do that, but motorcycles are not for everyone. They can tip over rather easily, and don’t protect riders from the elements. On the other hand, they are quite efficient at transporting one or two people from point A to point B.
Rick Woodbury gave this considerable thought back in … Read More
Tags: battery electric vehicle, Commuter Cars Corp., Add new tag, Rick Woodbury, Tango electric vehicle, Progressive Automotive, Progressive Automotive X-PRIZE
There are many examples of how competition leads us to strive towards new goals and challenges, seeing as a result great creations that contribute to our daily lives. Competition is regarded as a good thing where the market can sustain it. Sometimes as part of this process, key events happen that bring together former competitors giving rise to extraordinary opportunities. The question that often arises … Read More
Macro electromagnetic phenomenons are governed by the Maxwell’s Equations or a set of differential equations with some boundary conditions. People solve such equations numerically. Such techniques are called EM simulations. Due to the complexity of the problems, some people try to simply the problems by introducing some approximations. One most frequently used approximuation is assuming the frequency … Read More
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