Verification Vertigo

At DAC, I missed an appointment with a company CEO. While I had excuses, at the end of the day I just blew it. Many CEO’s would have said, you had your chance and lost it, but not Tom Sandoval at Calypto. He hardly seemed bothered, or at least did not show it when [...]

Last week, I received another press release from Jasper Design Automation that talked about advances they have made in a number of areas, including performance (a 2X increase in speed/memory footprint), packaging (common backend for several front ends) and technical (introduction of quiet trace and more parallel operations). This is not the first major [...]

DAC is still a big deal for our industry. It brings together researchers, EDA vendors and users to share information and ideas. I recently had the pleasure of talking to Chris Kappler, a founder of a small startup that will be at DAC for the first time this year.
Brian: First of all can you [...]