All Thought Leadership

Simulating the Real World

What! All that just for that? The bonkers world of CPU cooling.

November 17, 2011

My colleague Ed and I were marvelling the other day at the CPU cooling unit from one of our training...

By Robin Bornoff

Embedded Software

Device drivers on SMP systems

November 14, 2011

As I am on vacation, I thought that I would invite colleagues to provide a guest blog and Faheem Sheikh...

Verification Horizons

Getting started with the UVM – Using the Register Modeling package

November 11, 2011

Adopting SystemVerilog can be challenging to some, and learning the UVM at the same time might seem overwhelming. There is...

Verification Horizons

TLM Becomes an IEEE Standard

November 10, 2011

IEEE Announces Revision to IEEE 1666™ – Adds Transaction-Level Modeling Support A significant step forward to address standards for advanced...

By Dennis Brophy

Embedded Software

The death of the CD?

November 10, 2011

A while ago, I wrote about my enthusiasm for live music. I commented that the music business seems to be...

Embedded Software

Who needs a debugger anyway?

November 07, 2011

If you met someone in a bar, say, and you got talking, they are likely to ask what you do....

Embedded Software

How many?

November 03, 2011

Counting is somewhat fundamental to our lives. A key feature of Human intelligence is our ability to define the number...

Embedded Software

Hardware designers and software

October 31, 2011

As I work for a company that has traditionally had a strong focus on hardware design, I am particularly interested...

Embedded Software

Becoming a millionaire

October 28, 2011

I have talked about the stupidity of daylight savings time adjustments before, but I am inspired to address the subject...