en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692.html Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:57:46 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1980050598.html A couple of weeks ago I spent a morning at NXP’s innovation day. The first slightly surreal aspect of it was that it was in a building I used... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1220050522.html I’ve talked before about just how amazing Apple’s performance in the cell-phone (and laptop) market is. Last quarter, only two years af... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/960050496.html Well, Jim Hogan and my discussion at ICCAD prompted a various feedback in the blogosphere. For those that missed it, my summary of what we said is ... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/830050483.html Last week was the EDAC Kauffman Award dinner. One minor advantage of being a blogger is that I got invited along as press. “Will blog for foo... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/920050292.html Yesterday at ICCAD, Jim Hogan and I led an discussion on the megatrends facing electronics and the implications going forward for EDA. Basically we... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/10050201.html Jim Hogan and I are doing a presentation during ICCAD on Monday about what direction we see electronic system design moving, and the implications f... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1980050198.html I spent part of last Tuesday at the Cadence mixed-signal workshop. I went mainly out of interest to see how things had progressed since I worked at... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/280050028.html I caught up with Dave Stewart and Skip Hovsmith of CriticalBlue (from Edinburgh, yay, one of my alma maters). They originally developed technology ... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/260050026.html I went to Mike Muller’s keynote at ARM’s techcon3. He started with an interesting retrospective on ARM. They have shipped 15B units (4B... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/250050025.html I was at the ARM developer conference this week. Actually it has been renamed and is now called Techcon3, which seems pretty generic as branding. A... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1310049731.html It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was writing about software-signoff and FPGAs. I mentioned that Synopsys didn’t really have any high-... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1300049730.html Virage is on a roll right now. Originally a standard cell and memory company, it recently acquired a microprocessor line with ARC and now it has ac... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1280049728.html I talked a couple of weeks ago about how it is necessary to be brutal and cull the managers of internal products in an acquisition otherwise the ma... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1530048953.html There was a reason I wrote about biometrics trecently. I have a new job as COO (and VP marketing) at Biogy, which is a biometrics company. Already ... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/420049242.html I was at a biometrics conference in Florida the week before last. The state of the art is much more advanced than I realized in many areas. For ex... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/270049427.html When a company acquires another one, not just in EDA, there is often an internal group already doing something similar. For example, Intuit has jus... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1510048951.html What are biometrics? It is authenticating people by some aspect of their body, typically fingerprints (or finger vein), iris scan or voice recogn... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/260049426.html I’ve been reading a very interesting book called “The Flaw of Averages” by Sam Savage. It looks at why using average data only pr... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1750048975.html You’ve probably tried to explain to somebody the unbelievable scale of what it takes to design a modern chip with hundreds of millions or bil... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/430049243.html A friend of mine is interviewing for a marketing position at an EDA startup. I’d better leave everything anonymous to protect the innocent. H... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1500048950.html I’m amazed how much bad practice there is around security. People just aren’t very good at it, and sometimes don’t even realize t... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1580048958.html Entrepreneurs are all twenty-somethings straight out of college these days aren’t they? Not so fast, it turns out that this is an illusion. I... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1820048582.html Today's puzzle: How many animals do I have if all but 3 are dogs, all but 3 are cats, all but 3 are pigs and all but 3 are cows? ... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/70049207.html Here’s a quote from Tom Siebel, the founder of Siebel Systems that pioneered customer-relationship management before Salesforce.com started t... http://www.edn.com/blog/920000692/post/1120048512.html When I looked around at DAC last month (well, the month before last, what happened to August?) one thing that is in some ways surprising is that, g...