The big advantage of wifi and the internet is that when you are away from home base, you can be in constant touch. The big disadvantage of wifi and the internet is that when you are away from home base, you NEED to be in constant touch! Unfortunately, the number of work related things I [...]
Attending DATE 2011 today, listening to talks and panels, asking questions and meeting people and asking them for their views, I have realised that it is increasingly unlikely that the classical EDA industry, dominated by Synopsys – Cadence – Mentor as it is, will provide big advances in embedded software design and creation tools. When [...]
I am about to leave for DATE 2011 in Grenoble, where I will be giving a talk on “The Virtual Design Requirements of Configurable Manycore Baseband Platforms”, part of a Hot Topic session I helped organise with Rainer Leupers on Virtual Manycore Platforms: Moving Towards 100+ Processor Cores. (Wednesday March 16, 1100-1230). I missed DATE [...]