Verification and design engineers like to talk shop and discuss their experiences and visions. But even though engineers sharing stories around the water cooler (whatever form that takes—conferences, ...

I'm fast approaching the one year mark with my current employer since I graduated last year. Previously, I did three four month work terms with them and they were for the most part interesting. I took ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Tao Chen has a history of running ASIC verification teams with far fewer engineers than are typically required. As founder of Tarek Verification Systems LLC, he's taken some of ...

1. In a big company, doing ASIC design verification for a WCDMA modem for 3G cellular chips. 2. Small company, doing Embedded Software Programming. Working on the design and implementation of layer 1 ...

Why is it still so hard to ensure good quality sign-off happens without leaving behind bugs in silicon? The answer, according to my colleagues at DVCon, is highly nuanced. The industry has been ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Claiming a breakthrough in ASIC debugging, Synplicity Inc. this week will release details about TotalRecall, which it says will bring full debug visibility to FPGA prototypes used ...

Value in design prototyping using FPGAs. Validating the design with firmware. How the process works. Identifying companies with the right experience and expertise in FPGA and design prototyping ...

The Certify FPGA-based ASIC verification synthesis software can now automatically perform time-consuming tasks that include partitioning, gated-clock conversion, and pin multiplexing. The overall ...