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Friday puzzle: Nullarbor Plain
Last week’s puzzle was to list all the countries that begin and end with “A”. It is surprisingly difficult. Austria, Australia…hmm. Ah yes, Albania. I gave you Antigua & Barbuda (in the Caribbean). A stage of the Tour de France … Continue reading
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GM and Cadence
What is the similarity between the problems and GM and those at Cadence? Well, there are certainly plenty of differences, GM has all sorts of problems which stem from over-generous union contracts for one. But the thing that brought problems … Continue reading
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What should EDA do next?
Which are the interesting areas of EDA right now? As a general rule, I think that the answer is "the ends" which today means the architectural level and the transistor layout level. There will always be some interesting areas in … Continue reading
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Guest blog: Scott Sandler
Scott Sandler is the President of Springsoft USA. He began his career as a verification engineer at Intel, where he quickly learned that he liked the tools a lot better than the designs. He entered the EDA world in 1986 … Continue reading
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France
Today is July 14th, the equivalent in France of July 4th in the US. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which is considered to mark the start of the French Revolution. I lived in France for over … Continue reading
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Oasys blog
As if I don’t do enough blogging over here, I’m starting a new blog over here for Oasys. They are announcing both the company and their product, Oasys RealTime Designer, today and of course will be showing it at DAC. … Continue reading
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Friday puzzle: countries
Last week was the monkey puzzle. Monkeys go along a corridor shutting doors that are open and opening ones that are shut. It doesn’t take too much thought about this to realize that the doors left open will be those … Continue reading
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Blogging
I’ve been writing this blog since the start of the year. EDN’s content management system tells me that I’ve made over 150 posts. Some of them were guest bloggers and a few were just short items, but most of them … Continue reading
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Guest blog: David Hamilton
One area that I don’t know as much about as I feel I should is test. And an area that I know even less about is analog test. David Hamilton is the CEO of ATEEDA, based in an area that … Continue reading
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Living overseas
People often ask me about living overseas since I have some experience of it. I was brought up in Great Britain and moved to the US twenty-five years ago (with a baby), lived in the south of France for nearly … Continue reading
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