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My Obligatory TOP 10 for 2009
Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 15:50 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/optical_illusion/ / CC BY 2.0 What’s a blog without some sort of obligatory year end TOP 10 list? So, without further ado, here is my list of the TOP 10 events, happenings, occurrences, observations that I will remember from 2009. This is my list, from my perspective, of what I will remember.
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Synopsys Synphony Synopsis
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 - 11:52 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I was contacted a few weeks ago by Synopsys’ PR agency to see if I’d be interested in covering an upcoming product announcement. I usually ignore these “opportunities” since the information provided is usually carefully wordsmithed marketing gobbledygook and not enough for me to really form an opinion. However, it turned out that this announcement was on a subject I know a little bit about, so I took them up on their offer. The announcement was “embargoed“, that is, I was not to make it public until today.
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DAC Theme #1 - “The Rise of the EDA Bloggers”
Posted on Monday, August 3, 2009 - 01:42 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
(Photo courtesy J.L. Gray)  Last year, at the Design Automation Conference, there were only a couple dozen individuals who would have merited the title of EDA blogger. Of those, perhaps a dozen or so wrote regularly and had any appreciable audience. In order to nurture this fledgling group, JL Gray (with the help of John Ford, Sean Murphy, and yours truly) scrounged a free room after-hours in the back corner of the Anaheim Convention Center in which to hold the first ever EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather session.
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Coffee, Jobs, and DAC
Posted on Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 16:04 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I’m writing to you today from a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in beautiful Southern California. There’s something about the atmosphere at a coffee shop that helps me get my thoughts together. Maybe it’s the white noise of the cappuccino machines or the conversations or music in the background. I’m not the only one of course. Daniel Nenni and his two great danes can often be found at the downtown Danville Starbucks. And like the show Cheers, there are regulars at my local coffee shop that I see most days I am here. Sales people and college students come here a lot.
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What Makes DAC 2009 different from other DACs?
Posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 21:12 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
By Narendra (Nari) Shenoy, Technical Program Co-Chair, 46th DAC Each year, around this time, the electronic design industry and academia meticulously prepare to showcase the latest research and technologies at the Design Automation Conference. For the casual attendee, after a few years the difference between the conferences of years past begins to dim. If you are one of them, allow me to dispel this notion and invite you to look at what is different this year. For starters, we will be in the beautiful city of San Francisco from July 26-31.
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Mentor Is Listening
Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 04:02 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
My morning routine is pretty, well, routine. Get up.  Wake the kids. Check email.  Ask the kids to stop jumping on the couch. Check Twitter. Tell the kids again to stop jumping on the couch. Check my Google Reader.
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TSMC Challenges Lynx With Flow Of Their Own
Posted on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 02:22 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
About a month and a half ago, I wrote a 5 part series of blog posts on the newly introduced Lynx Design System from Synopsys: Part 1 - Synopsys Lynx Design System Debuts at SNUG Part 2 - Lynx Design System? - It’s The Flow, Stupid! Part 3 - Strongest Lynx Part 4 - The Weakest Lynx Part 5 - The Mising Lynx - The ASIC Cloud One key feature, the inclusion of pre-qualified technology and node specific libraries in the flow, was something I had pushed for when I was previously involved with Lynx (then called Pilot).
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EDA Merger Poll - What’d Be The Best Merger
Posted on Friday, May 1, 2009 - 18:22 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Rumors are flying concerning some big changes next week in EDA amongst the big players. It first got started by John Blyler on Twitter. Then Magma stock took off this week for no apparent reason. And rumors of a Cadence-Magma merger have been flying around for about a month since Rajeev denied them. Something may happen or nothing may happen. But it’s always fun to speculate. So, what do you think would be the best merger of the top 4 EDA companies? Vote here or feel free to leave your comments below. We’ll see who, if anyone, is right harry the ASIC guy ShareThis
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Soft Skills Aren’t Hard To Learn
Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 03:44 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
It was 1992 and I was supporting the Motorola Iridium project in Chandler, AZ. There was a project lead named Steve who I was tasked to work with. My job was to get certain elements of our DesignWare library working properly to support his ASIC design team. Steve was a bit of a control freak. Whenever there were technical decisions to be made, Steve wanted to be the one making the decisions. And once he made his decision, there was no changing it.
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You’ve Got Talent - Now Get Out There!
Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 03:54 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Last Saturday night, an unattractive, overweight, 47-year old spinster from Scotland appeared on the UK television show Britain’s Got Talent. If you have not seen it, here is the video. Susan Boyle has become an overnight sensation, this video becoming the most popular on YouTube this week and this month, with over 11 Million views as I write this. What made this remarkable was not the quality of the singing, which was excellent, but probably no better than many top performers on this and other similar shows like American Idol.
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