asic verification

I recently purchased Pro Git at my local Chapters bookstore. After reading it, I discovered I could get it for free on-line, but that did not make me feel bad, on the contrary! In a week, I had taken it everywhere, and showed it to half a dozen people. The reason I blog about this book [...]

In the spirit of the POSIX wait command, Platform LSF should have a bwait command. It should work in a way similar to this: $ bwait 7372 7378 7123 7812 Passed: 7812 Failed: 7372 Failed: 7123 Passed: 7378 $ echo $? 1 Let’s explain how this hypothetical command would work. As its name suggests, it is a command that waits for LSF jobs [...]

A way to solve this problem, which I presented in a previous post, was found with the help from the gurus on #bash. The easy way to make this work is to save the arguments to a file, one per line, and read them back at the other end. Using bash syntax for arrays "${a[@]}” [...]

Environment modules is a nice software environment that lets you switch verilog simulator version very easily without having to edit your environment (.cshrc or other). But it seems to have some drawbacks. One of which is that is does not return proper exit status when it fails, making it hard to write scripts that fail [...]