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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I wrote earlier about the good practices in designing APIs, which is so important when developing complex software. However one usually does not have the chance to start a product from scratch. This means that more often than ever, a software manager picks up an existing tool with an [...]
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CodeProjectI 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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