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761 Days
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 18:13 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
761 days. That’s 2 years, 1 month, and 3 days. 761 days ago, I hosted a small group of interested EDA folks, journalists, and bloggers in a small room in the Doubletree hotel after one of the evenings after DVCon. Most of the discussion that year was around OVM and VMM and which methodology was going to win out and which was really open and which simulator supported more of the System-Verilog language. Well, all that is put to bed.
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Altium Looking to Gain Altitude in the Cloud
Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2011 - 13:50 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Over the holiday break, I came across an interview of Altium CIO Alan Perkins that caught my eye. Sramana Mitra has been focusing on interesting cloud-based businesses and this interview focused on how this EDA company was planning to move into the cloud. I wasn’t able to talk to Alan Perkins directly, but I was able to find out more through their folks in the US (the company is based in Australia). It was interesting enough to warrant a post. I knew very little about Altium before seeing this interview and maybe you don’t either, so here is a little background.
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Scott Clark on EDA Clouds
Posted on Monday, August 9, 2010 - 00:12 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Although I had heard his name mentioned quite often, it wasn’t until this year at DAC that I finally met Scott Clark  for the first time. Scott was describing how, as Director of Engineering Infrastructure at Broadcom, he led a project to virtualize Broadcom’s internal data center in order to transform it into a private cloud. It was a great discussion.
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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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Two Blog or Not Two Blog?
Posted on Monday, September 7, 2009 - 23:44 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I got an email last week from one the readers of this blog that observed “it would be interesting to learn how to manage both blogs while doing justice to your readers.” He was of course referring to my new blog on Xuropa that I write in addition to this one. Indeed, this was a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Two Blog or Not Two Blog?", url: "http://theasicguy.com/2009/09/07/two-blog-or-not-two-blog/" });
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DAC Theme #3 - “Increasing Clouds Over SF Bay”
Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 22:48 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
It was easy to spot the big theme’s at DAC this year. This was the “Year of ESL” (again). The state of the economy and the future of EDA was a constant backdrop. Analog design was finally more than just Cadence Virtuoso. And social media challenged traditional media. It was harder to spot the themes that were not front and center, that were not spotlighted by the industry beacons, that were not reported by press or bloggers. Still, there were important developments if you  looked in the right places and noticed what was changing.
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What To Do With 1000 CPUs - The Answers
Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 03:48 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I recall taking a course called The Counselor Salesperson when I was an AE at Synopsys. The course was very popular across the industry and was the basis for the book Win-Win Selling. It advocated a consultative approach to sales, one in which the salesperson tries to understand the customer’s problem first and provide a solution that he needs second.
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What would you do with 1000 CPUs?
Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 23:23 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
If I gave you 1000 CPUs to use for a month … and 1000 licenses of any EDA tool you want … what would you do? Why? harry the ASIC guy ShareThis
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The Missing Lynx - The ASIC Cloud
Posted on Friday, April 3, 2009 - 13:19 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
My last blog post, entitled The Weakest Lynx, got a lot of attention from the Synopsys Lynx CAEs and Synopsys marketing. Please go see the comments on that post for a response from Chris Smith, the lead support person for Lynx at Synopsys. Meanwhile, the final part of this series … The Missing Lynx. About 7 months ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Birth of an EDA Revolution in which I first shared my growing excitement over the potential for cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to transform EDA.
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Mentor Graphics Displaced Worker Program
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 17:45 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I’m still up at the Design Verification Conference (DVCon) and have not had a chance to summarize last evening’s Software-As-A-Service and Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable. I will do that over the weekend and have a complete rundown next week, including slides. In the meantime, I wanted to pass on some information that was announced a week or so ago and which I became aware of just this week. Mentor Graphics has initiated a Displaced Worker Program to provide free training to customers who have lost thier jobs in the last 6 months.
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