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Dear H. Gries
Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 10:43 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Below is the response I received 2 days after my original email to Verizon. As you can see, no change on my end at this point. I’m not too happy, but what do you think? Dear H. Gries, Thank you for choosing Verizon. I have received your email dated 3/14/11 regarding your request to handle your concerns over a DSL technical issue that you were trying to report when an order was placed to remove your DSL and add Fios to your home.
harry
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Dear Verizon
Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 13:00 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
This is an actual email I sent to Verizon 2 days ago regarding an “issue” with their broadband service. I will post their reply in later posts. This is an “opportunity” for them to show how they “provide excellent service” to each customer, even little guys like me. If you are in a service business, like I am, there might also be some lessons to learn. Your comments and thoughts are welcome. Dear Verizon,  On the evening of March 9 at ~10pm, our DSL service stopped working. The following morning at ~8am, we contacted Verizon for technical support.
harry
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Winners and Losers
Posted on Monday, March 7, 2011 - 00:20 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Engineers tend to view the world in binary. There’s the good guys and the bad guys. There’s the right way and the wrong way. There are rich folks and poor folks. Democrats and Republicans. You’re with us or against us. And there are winners and losers. This week, working the Agnisys booth at DVCon, I got to see all these types and all the shades in between. I got to see the good guys (me, of course, and anyone who was with me) and the bad guys (the competition).
harry
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It Shrinks?
Posted on Monday, January 3, 2011 - 02:04 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
As we enter a new year, it is comforting to know that we all are just a little bit dumber than we were last year. According to an article in Discover Magazine, human brains have shrunk approximately 10% since Cro-Magnon man walked the earth 20,000 years ago. Although there is no certain relationship between brain size and intelligence, this still seems to be rather alarming and goes against what we all grew up believing.
harry
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EDA: The Next Big Things
Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 - 00:51 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
As most of you know, I’ve been a big advocate for using technology to do more and more online. As an example, back in April, when the volcano in Iceland was causing havoc with air travel in Europe, I wrote a post on the Xuropa blog entitled “What’s in Your Volcano Kit?” In that post, I urged EDA companies to develop a kit of online tools to communicate and collaborate with current and prospective customers and the industry in general. Well, it’s good to know that people are reading my blog and following my advice!
harry
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Controlling transaction generation timing from the driver using ‘PULL’ mode
Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 03:23 by Amit Sharma from the site Verification Martial Arts
Sadiya Tarannum Ahmed, Senior CAE, Synopsys In the default flow, the transaction level communication in VMM Channels operates in the ‘PUSH’ mode, i.e., the process is initiated by the producer which randomizes and pushes a transaction in the channel when it is empty. This process is repeated again when the channel is empty or the consumer retrieves the transaction from the channel. However, in specific cases, you might not want the generator to create stimulus before the bus protocol is ready or until it is requested by the bus-protocol.
Amit Sharma
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Brian Bailey on Unconventional Blogging
Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 13:05 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
(Photo courtesy Ron Ploof)  I had the pleasure yesterday of interviewing Brian Bailey in the Synopsys Conversation Central Stage at DAC. We discussed his roots in verification working with the initial developers of digital simulation tools and his blogging experiences these past few years. There are, of course, even a few comments on the difference between journalists and bloggers You can listen to this half hour interview at the Synopsys Blog Talk Radio site. I’d be interested in your comments on the show and the format as well.
harry
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Where in the DAC is harry the ASIC guy?
Posted on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 14:25 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Last year’s Design Automation Conference was kind of quiet and dull, muted by the impact of the global recession with low attendance and just not a lot of real interesting new developments. This year looks very different; I’m actually having to make some tough choices of what sessions to attend. And with all the recent acquisitions by Cadence and Synopsys, the landscape is changing all around, which will make for some interesting discussion. I’ll be at the conference Monday through Wednesday.
harry
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DAC Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:06 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
About a week ago, I got an email from someone I know doing a story on how the Design Automation Conference has changed with respect to bloggers since the first EDA Bloggers Birds-of-a-Feather Session 2 years ago. I gave a thoughtful response and some of it ended up in the story, but I thought it would be nice to share my original full response with you. Has your perception of the differences between bloggers and press changed since the first BOF? Forget my perception; many of the press are now bloggers!
harry
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Why?
Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 02:53 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
The other day, I was listening to John Wall interview Simon Sinek on the Marketing over Coffee Podcast. Simon Sinek is a marketing consultant and motivational speaker and has a book out entitled “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action.” In addition to the podcast interview, I also came across the following presentation that Simon gave at a TedX conference a few months ago. To make a long-story short, the key premise is that companies spend too much time marketing what they do and how they do it better than the other guy.
harry
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