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Simulating the Real World

Happy Lunar New Year! - FloEFD Investigates Sky Lantern Aerodynamics

February 08, 2016

Happy Chinese new year, wishing you all prosperity, luck, health and fortune in this, the year of the Monkey! Also...

By Robin Bornoff

Embedded Software

Justice, punishment and protection

February 04, 2016

It is amazing how often people have said to me “You think too much.” What they are accusing me of...

Embedded Software

OpenAMP - embedded multicore comes of age

February 02, 2016

Multicore designs in embedded systems are now becoming mainstream as the cost-effective way to implement the complex functionality required in...

Verification Horizons

Goal posts Aren’t Only for Football – Use Them in Formal Analysis Too!

February 01, 2016

With both DVCon and the annual Super Bowl championship football game coming up, one can’t help but think of …...

By Joe Hupcey III

Simulating the Real World

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 2 - Design of (Computational) Experiments

February 01, 2016

The most effective, but least efficient, method to determine an optimal combination of design parameters is to consider every single...

By Robin Bornoff

Verification Horizons

What's Going On With My SystemVerilog Queue?

January 29, 2016

I want my MTV! And while I’m at it, I’m also curious about what’s going on with my SystemVerilog queues....

By Rich Edelman

Embedded Software

Engineers and a belief in magic

January 28, 2016

Recently I wrote about my need to understand things in the world around me. I have been considering this some...

Simulating the Real World

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 1 - Defining a Design Space

January 26, 2016

Heatsinks are a very common method of aiding the transfer of heat from a source (e.g. IC die) to a...

By Robin Bornoff

Embedded Software

Libraries - a good way to promote embedded code reuse?

January 25, 2016

As any software developer is well aware, the basic process for building an embedded application is quite straightforward. Normally, the...