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Once more, EEVblog’s Dave Jones generously dispenses nuggets from his substantial system-level design experience while tearing apart the Makerbot Replicator, an open-source 3D printer.

I wrote about Clock Concurrent Optimization (CCOpt) a year ago (see “Clock Concurrent Optimization: The Primer to the Primer—OR—Want to overcome some major functional hurdles to Silicon Realization and save a lot of power on your SoC at the same … Continue reading →

Earlier this week, Micron announced volume production of a combined phase-change memory (PCM) and an LPDDR2 SDRAM in one package. Here’s a video Micron demo of one of the end-product advantages of such a memory over NOR or NAND Flash … Continue reading →

Re-imagining Rod Serling as Sean O’Kane of Chip Estimate and “The Twilight Zone” as “The DAC Zone.” This video is just too cute for words.  

If you feel the urge to strut your stuff in front of a roomful of party-hearty DAC attendees, you’ve come to the right place. Applications are now open for the “EDA’s Got Talent” competition taking place on the Ruby Skye … Continue reading →

Buckaroo Banzai’s Jet Car has nothing on a Swedish racing team called Mobacken Racing. Here’s a video of the team’s homebrew JU-01 gas turbine engine—about the size of the proverbial bread box—revving up outside of the owner’s garage.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 120,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

The first ten pre-production prototypes of the Raspberry Pi beta board are currently selling on eBay, proceeds to help Raspberry Pi build more boards for educational purposes. If you haven’t run across this project, it’s attempt to provide a low-cost … Continue reading →

An IEEE Computer Society meeting is not usually the place to dip your toe into a newly controversial area or hot topic of the day, but next Tuesday will be one of those exceptions. On that day, the Silicon Valley … Continue reading →

Covered this music earlier. Now in video from Weird Al himself:

Back after 24 years. Like me.

I usually log onto the EDA360 Insider blog a few times a day to see how traffic’s going. The main dashboard displays a column graph with the last 16 days of traffic displayed. You can quickly see trends with this … Continue reading →

If your team is designing an SoC today, it’s no doubt a mixed-signal design. Every standard interface (think USB, SATA, etc.) now employs mixed-signal PHYs to reach out to the world beyond the SoC’s pins, not to mention the analog … Continue reading →

Here’s a video of EDA360 Evangelist Steve Leibson discussing the meaning of end-to-end EDA in the context of Silicon Realization (think “chips-packages-boards”). (Note: The video starts 10 seconds into the playback.) EDA360 Evangelist Steve Leibson discusses chips…, posted with vodpod … Continue reading →

To all of you who have been reading the EDA360 Insider for the past several months since it first went online, I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving! See you next week.

Ann Steffora Mutschler just published a meaty article on “Best Practices For Multicore SoC Test And Debug” at Chip Design Magazine’s System-Level Design Community. The article quotes Jason Andrews, an architect at Cadence Design Systems, who says that “multicore debug … Continue reading →