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Verification Horizons

Prologue: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Study Overview In 2002 and 2004, Ron Collett International, Inc. conducted its well known ASIC/IC functional verification studies, which...

By Harry Foster

Embedded Software

Device registers in C

Mentor Graphics has historically been dedicated to providing tools for electronic hardware designers and that still represents a very large...

Verification Horizons

Language Transitions: The Dawning of Age of Aquarius

Wally Rhines DVCon 2011 Keynote Highlights Survey on Verification Languages OK, maybe it is not the Dawning of the Age...

By Dennis Brophy

Embedded Software

Moderate cycling on the road to Damascus

I am quite new to cycling. I had a bicycle when I was a kid, but never really got on...

Embedded Software

Share and share alike

A constant challenge I have found, when teaching or mentoring people, is to avoid making assumptions about what they know....

Simulating the Real World

Do you know the way to San Jose?

One of the highlights of the electronics thermal management calender is the annual SEMI-THERM symposium held in sunny San Jose,...

By Robin Bornoff

Embedded Software

Evernote

When people ask me what kind of job I do, I say that I work in marketing for a software...

Embedded Software

Why move to C++?

As I am on vacation this week, I thought that I would leave behind a short note, which might provoke...

Embedded Software

Perspectives on a missed opportunity

There is an old joke: optimists think that the glass is half full; pessimists say it is half empty; [software]...