|
||||
|
Functional verification is a major bottleneck in the chip design cycle. Any misstep in closing the functional correctness of a digital system costs millions of dollars in redesign, additional testing, and silicon respins. One can argue at length about its actual cost, but people in the industry usually agree that functional verification takes between [...] Continue reading The formal verification market is still untapped This week Xilinx and Altera released their September results (Q2FY10 and Q3FY09 respectively). The bottom line is shown below (all numbers in $M). Source: Xilinx and Altera financial reports, and Yahoo! Finance Xilinx’ quarterly income of $64M (0.23$/share) beats Wall Street’s expectation of 0.19$/share. Altera’s quarterly income of $56.7M (0.19$/share) meets Wall [...] Continue reading What to read in Xilinx’ and Altera’s third quarter results CodeProjectHere are the definitions of two words that have a bad press, especially in these harsh economic times: Outsourcing (included in dictionaries in 1979): the procuring of services or products, such as the parts used in manufacturing a motor vehicle, from an outside supplier or manufacturer in order to cut costs. Offshoring: relocation by [...] Continue reading Software outsourcing, a necessary evil The FPGA market has been entrenched in a duopoly for a number of years now. In 2008, according to Gartner Inc., Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corp. hold together 87% of the market of programmable logic (51.2% and 35.5% respectively). The rest of the market is covered mostly by Actel Corp. and Lattice Semiconductor Corp., [...] Continue reading Why FPGA startups keep failing |
 
|
|||
|
Copyright © 2012 Olivier Coudert's Blog - All Rights Reserved |
||||
