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Has formal verification technology stalled?

We all know that functional verification is the costliest and most time-consuming aspect of ASIC design –about 50% of the total cost, and from 40% to 70% of the total project duration. And we all know that simulation is by far the prevalent verification method, even though it is inherently incomplete due [...]

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Twitter and snowflakes

According to the official weather service, the UK has just suffered through its longest spell of freezing conditions since December 1981.

The recent winter storms across the whole of the UK wreaked havoc with public transport and generally disrupted the lives of millions of UK residents. Soon hundreds of thousands of UK [...]

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Did you feel the tremor? The 2010 challenges for EDA

Yes, did you feel it? No, I am not talking about the two earthquakes that I felt last week in San Jose, shaking the buildings, and leaving people with that weird feeling that they just experienced a whisper of the Big One to come. No, I am talking about the tremor [...]

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Is Twitter Flattening? A Short Answer

Compete and Quantcast have now released their latest data about the traffic on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for December. According to Compete’s report, twitter.com’s US traffic reached 22.81 million unique visitors [...]

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End-of-the-year reflection: what is it to blog in EDA?

It is not quite yet the last day of the year, but two days to go is good enough to reflect on my recent blogging experience. I published my first post on September 14 of this year. Starting from scratch is always difficult, and starting a blog nowadays means you have to compete with millions [...]

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Why service companies will eat up EDA

Over the past week we heard good news from Xilinx and Altera, both raising their revenue targets for Q4CY09 (Q3FY10 and Q4FY09 respectively). Both of the FPGA giants are doing fine, and are poised to grow twice as fast as the semiconductor industry. The semiconductors companies [...]

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The truth about Twitter usage

Three research firms reported traffic to Twitter.com dropping between the month of September and October. According to these firms, the number of unique US visitors to the Twitter website went down [...]

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Twitter sure is a rollercoaster, but going up or down?

The last 10 days have been pretty interesting to follow in the fast moving world of Twitter. They showed a contrasting (or seemingly so) picture of where the super-hyped company is heading. Let us rewind the last few events [...]

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What EDA needs to change for 2020 success?

ICCAD’09 was a fairly good vintage. It started Monday morning with an excellent keynote from Hamid Pirahesh about cloud computing. The same day in the afternoon, a more EDA-focused discussion was initiated by Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan (slides can be found here), asking the [...]

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What is Twitter’s next step?

Lots has been written and hyped about Twitter since its creation three years ago. Twitter has been touted as the fastest growing social network (19% of U.S. Internet users tweet), and a communication medium with still unforeseen capabilities. The company [...]

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