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Category Archives: embedded software
EmbeDAC
The latest EDAC spring meeting was a bit different from usual. The panel session was all about embedded software. John Bruggeman, now at Cadence but previously at Wind River, lined up his old colleague Tomas Evensen (the CTO of Wind … Continue reading →
CoWare
It must be something in the water in silicon valley right now. But no sooner have I written about VaST and Virtutech being acquired then Synopsys acquires CoWare as well. Since I never worked there, I don’t have any sort … Continue reading →
Virtutech
I’d heard rumors that Intel was acquiring Virtutech and I presumed that the purpose was to put it together with Wind River that they acquired last year. I mentioned this in my post about VaST earlier this week but I … Continue reading →
VaST
Finally it is public knowledge that Synopsys has acquired VaST Systems Technology. I was VP marketing there for a bit over a year back when Graham was still CEO. Since I exercised my options when I left, I’ve been inundated … Continue reading →
Looking through Critical Blue’s Prism
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 →
Software signoff again
What do you think the dominant design paradigm for electronic systems is going to be going forward? As I’ve said before, I believe that it is going to be taking software, probably written in C and C++ , and synthesizing parts … Continue reading →
DAC: denial computing
I went to the keynote today by nVidia’s (and Stanford’s) William Daily. The topic was the end of what he called denial architecture and the rise of throughput computing. Denial architecture was so called since it denied two things: that … Continue reading →