{"id":6832,"date":"2014-03-24T12:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:42:57","slug":"a-date-at-date-the-software-perspective-on-virtual-prototyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2014\/03\/24\/a-date-at-date-the-software-perspective-on-virtual-prototyping\/","title":{"rendered":"A date at DATE [the software perspective on virtual prototyping]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I am crossing to the Dark Side. I am a software engineer, but I work for an EDA company, which, although committed to supporting embedded software development, is dominated by hardware design knowledge and culture. There is always a kind of tension between hardware and software designers and I feel it is likely to be for ever thus. This week I am attending an event which is entirely focused on EDA &#8211; DATE 2014 in Dresden, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>For those not familiar with this conference, it is essentially the European version of DAC, but on a smaller scale. I have not &#8220;changed sides&#8221;, but I was invited to participate in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.date-conference.com\/conference\/session\/7.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">panel session<\/a> looking at virtual prototyping. I am the &#8220;token software guy&#8221; and hope to bring a slightly different perspective. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>If you are going to DATE, you might like to stop by and say &#8220;guten tag&#8221;. Otherwise, if you wanted a copy of the [few] slides that I get to present &#8211; &#8220;Virtual Prototyping: The Software Perspective&#8221; &#8211; please <a href=\"mailto:colin_walls@mentor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I am crossing to the Dark Side. I am a software engineer, but I work for an EDA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[571,300,572],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-date","tag-embedded-software","tag-virtual-prototyping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions\/10255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}