We love DAC, but can't follow instructions!
July 31, 2009
We love DAC, but can't follow instructions!
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We love DAC, but can't follow instructions!
Originally uploaded by brillianthue
Update August 12, 2009: Holly and Kathryn have asked me to change the link to the demo from a direct link (that opened the demo but made it appear as if the viewer was me) to a landing page link to a generic Demos on Demand page for Jasper. I've asked for a more direct link but Demos on Demand apparently doesn't make that easy to do. Look for the demo entitled "Jasper Design Automation: ActiveDesign". Hopefully the demo will still be visible on that page when you head over there to take a look!
Earlier this year at DVCon, Kathryn Kranen and Holly Stump met with me to discuss Jasper’s new design exploration tool, ActiveDesign. I ended up meeting with Holly and Rajeev Ranjan, Jasper’s CTO at DAC earlier this week to discuss the topic of my Wednesday panel, “Seeking the Holy Grail of Verification Coverage Closure.” During that discussion the topic of ActiveDesign came up again, which jogged my memory that I hadn’t posted on the topic after DVCon.
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Ted Vucurevich
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Also, congratulations to Karen Bartleson of Synopsys for winning the EDA's Next Top Blogger competition!
My favorite part of the Design Automation Conference (or any conference these days) is catching up with old friends. I spent the morning doing just that, making the rounds between the North and South halls of the Moscone Center, with a stop in between to check out the press room. Of course, more than once I had the embarrassing situation of forgetting the face of an old colleague or client. If you were one of those people, please accept my apologies!
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When I first attended DAC in 2007, it was loads of fun. I had nothing to do other than roam around and blog. Last year, I still got to blog, but had some responsibilities in the form of a Birds of a Feather session, an OVM Panel (which I was late for because I went to the wrong hotel) and a presentation on the Myth of SystemVerilog Interoperability. Somehow, I thought I was busy… This year, I’ll be involved with several activities on both the technical and social media fronts. If you have the time, please stop by one of the following events and say hello!
If you believe I’m supposed to be involved in a public event that is missing from this list, please send me a private email ASAP ;-).
[*] If you want to know what I’ll be talking about, you’ll just have to show up!
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Yesterday I presented another full-day workshop on verification planning - this time in Denver. During these workshops I discuss two major topics. First, we discuss a framework to help you understand your design. We break up a design into "efficient" subsections, and then search for "operations" that make up each of these subsections. Second, once you have an understanding of your design, we discuss the concept of a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). An FMEA is a cross-functional meeting used to brainstorm possible faults and failures. We use that information to come up with a verification plan.
Continue reading "Do You Know Your Project's 'Truck Factor'?" »
I've been having a discussion on Twitter over the last couple of days that the rest of you may find interesting. The question I posed was:
It's late... very late... and I'm working on slides for one of my DAC presentations, "Zero to Sequences in 30 Minutes". My slides contain source code, and the code is not easy to read. I thought, "Wouldn't it be great if I could colorize the code?" Luckily, Sean over at IntelligentDV wrote a blog article on exactly this topic last year. However, did I mention it's very late? So the idea of screwing around with a new editor and installing syntax files didn't really appeal to me. However, after reading that article plus some follow-up Google searching, I realized if I could get vim to save its syntax-highlighted output as HTML I could copy that directly into PowerPoint. But how?