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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 a container without exposing [...] Continue reading How to write abstract iterators in C++ 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 question “What EDA needs to change for [...] Continue reading What EDA needs to change for 2020 success? October 30th, 2009 | Tags: Altera, Business, FPGA, India, outsourcing, software, Xilinx | Category: Business
Last week I wrote a post discussing Xilinx and Altera Q3’09 results, and I mentioned Xilinx’ operation margin consistently trailing Altera’s by 3-4%. I had a few emails regarding that gap, and why that gap would be closed eventually. Let me address this topic with this post. Comparing the yearly fiscal exercises directly would be biased [...] Continue reading How can Xilinx improve its bottom line
Continue reading Test-driven design, a methodology for low-defect software I built up products from scratch several time in my professional life. Usually it starts with a very small engineering team –sometimes I was the very first member of the team. This is a great opportunity to lay strong foundations for the subsequent software development, because one is in charge of the [...] Continue reading API design 101 Here 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 [...] Continue reading Software outsourcing, a necessary evil |
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