Paul McLellan

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Linaro: the latest in the ARM and Atom battle

Usually when two companies initiate a joint venture or work together, it is often casually referred to as the two companies getting in bed together. Last week, a veritable orgy was announced. ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments announced that they are creating a company, Linaro , to provide better distribution and tools for Linux. Reading between the lines, this... More

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Design Automation Conference preview

Unless you have been hibernating through the winter (which some days seems to still be going on) then you know that DAC is coming up on 13 th June through Friday if you stay all the way through the tutorials. So what’s new this year? The DAC party has moved from Wednesday to Tuesday, and is now sponsored by Denali. This is not to be confused with the Denali party itself, which is... More

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EDAgraffiti, the book

The book of the blog is now available for purchase here . Here’s an extract from the introduction that gives an overview of what the book is: This book is an outgrowth from this blog. Although the basis of the book is the original blog entries there is new material and the old material has been extensively revised. Furthermore, I’ve reordered the content so that each... More

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Cadence summits Denali

Cadence announced that they had acquired Denali for $330M today. They reckon that it will be accretive this year. Since the beginning of the year there has been a sort of land grab going on in the system and IP spaces. There are rumors around that at least one of the high-level synthesis companies is about to be acquired too. It is going to be interesting to see just how this all plays... More

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Is it time to start using high-level synthesis?

One big question people have about high-level synthesis (HLS) is whether or not it is ready for mainstream use. In other words, does it really work (yet)? HLS has had a long history starting with products like Synopsys’s Behavioral Compiler and Cadence’s Visual Architect which never achieved any serious adoption. Then there was a next generation with companies like Synfora,... More