IP Systems

The holidays aren’t over yet!  Mentor’s Boris Marovic considers the science behind Santa.  Alien technology abounds. Follow an ex-Sparkfun engineer in his travels across Africa spreading robotics. Jama moved into a new headquarters for the new year! Things are a bit slow what with all the mandatory holiday shutdowns.  Here’s some fun holiday reading about the Blocks for the Intel …

Blog Review 12/24/2014 by Hamilton Carter Technology Editor   Mentor’s Robin Bornoff begins a multi-part series on energy conservation through the responsible stewardship of hot water.   Catherine Bolgar covers recent predictions that the next industrial revolution will be spurred by doing more with fewer material resources.   Intel has added new cache monitoring technology to their Xenon class processors.  …

In Part II of this story, Cadence, Synopsys and Imperas offer challenges that hardware and software designers will face in verifying system requirements.

Kickstarter Projects, Code Coverage, Specman, IP Verification, MOOC, Automotive, Mixed Signal, Conflict Free and IGBT.

by Hamilton Carter, Senior Editor   The first post-acquisition Jasper User Group (JUG) conference was heldlast Monday and Tuesday in Santa Clara California.  Cadence’s Executive Vice President of the System and Verification Group, Charlie Huang, and Jasper’s Oz Levia each spoke about how the new Jasper products fit into the Cadence system verification flow.     Ron Wilson, of Altera discusses …

A panel of experts from Dassault Systemes, ARM, Cadence and IPextreme turned a critical eye to the management of IP in the Google-on-Air event. By John Blyler, Editorial Director, IP Systems Last week, I moderated a panel on the evolving challenges faced by semiconductor companies in managing a growing base of intellectual property (IP) blocks. While the panel was sponsored by Dassault …

High courts wrestle with limits of copyright, as a protection for software.

Three events from TSMC, ARM and JAMA Software highlight the breadth and depth of IP development that (hopefully) results in manual-less consumer apps.

Will the success of the open source movement in software and even hardware cause changes in silicon IP business models?

Each of the major semiconductor EDA companies approaches innovation is different ways, but all agree that creating new products and improving existing ones is essential to survival. By John Blyler Everyone talks about innovation. Start-up companies are the most visible vehicle for innovation, but also the most risky with a one-in-ten chance of modest success. Less visible is the innovation …