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It’s official: Tier Logic will cease to be in business on Friday July 16, 2010. The company has been trying to close its second round of funding, but it became clear last week that no short-term funding from a new VC would come, despite some due diligence by two lead investors. [...] Continue reading RIP Tier Logic
When developing in C++, an impeccable API is a must have: it has to be as simple as possible, abstract, generic, and extensible. One important generic concept that STL made C++ developers familiar with is the concept of iterator. An iterator is used to visit the elements of [...] Continue reading How to write abstract iterators in C++ No doubt that for the next two weeks you will find many DAC reports in blogs and corporate marketing websites. So I tried not to write yet another DAC report, with a long list of companies and products. Instead, I have chosen to share my absolutely non-exhaustive, completely biased view of DAC. I will then publish [...] Continue reading DAC 47th digest: what you missed (even if you were there) Xilinx announced that it signed a multi-year strategic licensing agreement to use Oasys’ synthesis. What does that mean for the FPGA and EDA community? Oasys’ product, RealTime Designer, is claimed to be 10x-60x faster than the competition. Among other things, it uses AIG-based optimization. This technology [...] Continue reading Who should worry about Xilinx and Oasys partnership? Another FPGA startup met the fate of so many others: Abound Logic is reported to have shut down this week, Wednesday June 2nd, 2010. Abound logic, previously known as M2000, was founded by three EDA veterans who had previously started Meta Systems. Meta Systems developed the industry’s first emulation system based on custom [...] Continue reading RIP Abound Logic Cadence unveiled EDA360 in April. Now that I found the time to read its 28-pages white paper, I can finally comment on it. EDA360, John Bruggeman’s brainchild, is a manifesto that promotes a vision for the future of EDA. In a nutshell, it states the following: So far [...] Continue reading What you need to know about EDA360 A FPGA company makes revenue with the hardware: it sells its device, and gives away its design tools –synthesis, place-and-route. Yet the EDA industry has had success with its own (non-free) FPGA synthesis solutions. For good reasons: in its days, Synplicity’s Synplify was the best FPGA synthesis out there. Synopsys acquired Synplicity [...] Continue reading Is FPGA a sustainable market for EDA? The past two weeks were pretty interesting if you follow FPGAs. Yes, Xilinx and Altera kept upping their target to Wall St., but that is not where the excitement came from. It came from the recent announcements of two startups, both created in 2003 and heavily funded. Tabula released its long-awaited device, which goes [...] Continue reading Can Tabula and Tier Logic be successful? |
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