Author Archives: paulmcl

iPhone is number 1

Posted on November 13, 2009 by paulmcl

I’ve talked before about just how amazing Apple’s performance in the cell-phone (and laptop) market is. Last quarter, only two years after entering the cell-phone market, Apple became #1, at least if you measure by how much money they made … Continue reading →

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Blogroll

Posted on November 11, 2009 by paulmcl

Well, Jim Hogan and my discussion at ICCAD prompted various feedback in the blogosphere. For those that missed it, my summary of what we said is here. An up to date list of all the blog entries we know of … Continue reading →

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Kauffman Award Dinner

Posted on November 10, 2009 by paulmcl

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 food”. This year’s winner was Professor Randal Bryant, usually just known as Randy Bryant. … Continue reading →

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ICCAD: EDA for the next 10 years

Posted on November 3, 2009 by paulmcl

Yesterday at ICCAD, Jim Hogan and I led an discussion on the megatrends facing electronics and the implications going forward for EDA. Basically we took a leaf out of Scoop Nisker’s book, who when he finished reading the news would … Continue reading →

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Hogan and McLellan: live in concert

Posted on October 29, 2009 by paulmcl

Jim Hogan and I are doing a presentation during ICCAD on Monday about what direction we see electronic system design moving, and the implications for EDA. We plan to talk for about 20 minutes and then have a discussion. Come … Continue reading →

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State of the union…of digital and analog

Posted on October 29, 2009 by paulmcl

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 Cadence. I had been put in charge of what we called the Superchip … Continue reading →

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Looking through Critical Blue’s Prism

Posted on October 28, 2009 by paulmcl

I caught up with Dave Stewart and Skip Hovsmith of CriticalBlue (from Edinburgh, yay, one of my alma maters). They originally developed technology to take software and pull it out of the code and implement it in gates. They had … Continue reading →

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ARM 20 years on

Posted on October 26, 2009 by paulmcl

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 in 2008 alone). They have 20+ processor cores, 600+ licensees. In the next 3 or 4 years … Continue reading →

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TJ Rodgers and the PSoC

Posted on October 23, 2009 by paulmcl

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. Anyway, one of the keynotes was by TJ Rodgers who started off by telling us … Continue reading →

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New World Synphony

Posted on October 17, 2009 by paulmcl

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-level synthesis. Rumor has it that they do have sequential formal verification in development. Anyway, on … Continue reading →

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