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My Obligatory TOP 10 for 2009
Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 15:50 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/optical_illusion/ / CC BY 2.0 What’s a blog without some sort of obligatory year end TOP 10 list? So, without further ado, here is my list of the TOP 10 events, happenings, occurrences, observations that I will remember from 2009. This is my list, from my perspective, of what I will remember.
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Two Blog or Not Two Blog?
Posted on Monday, September 7, 2009 - 23:44 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I got an email last week from one the readers of this blog that observed “it would be interesting to learn how to manage both blogs while doing justice to your readers.” He was of course referring to my new blog on Xuropa that I write in addition to this one. Indeed, this was a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Two Blog or Not Two Blog?", url: "http://theasicguy.com/2009/09/07/two-blog-or-not-two-blog/" });
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DAC Theme #3 - “Increasing Clouds Over SF Bay”
Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 22:48 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
It was easy to spot the big theme’s at DAC this year. This was the “Year of ESL” (again). The state of the economy and the future of EDA was a constant backdrop. Analog design was finally more than just Cadence Virtuoso. And social media challenged traditional media. It was harder to spot the themes that were not front and center, that were not spotlighted by the industry beacons, that were not reported by press or bloggers. Still, there were important developments if you  looked in the right places and noticed what was changing.
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What To Do With 1000 CPUs - The Answers
Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 03:48 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I recall taking a course called The Counselor Salesperson when I was an AE at Synopsys. The course was very popular across the industry and was the basis for the book Win-Win Selling. It advocated a consultative approach to sales, one in which the salesperson tries to understand the customer’s problem first and provide a solution that he needs second.
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What would you do with 1000 CPUs?
Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 23:23 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
If I gave you 1000 CPUs to use for a month … and 1000 licenses of any EDA tool you want … what would you do? Why? harry the ASIC guy ShareThis
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The Missing Lynx - The ASIC Cloud
Posted on Friday, April 3, 2009 - 13:19 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
My last blog post, entitled The Weakest Lynx, got a lot of attention from the Synopsys Lynx CAEs and Synopsys marketing. Please go see the comments on that post for a response from Chris Smith, the lead support person for Lynx at Synopsys. Meanwhile, the final part of this series … The Missing Lynx. About 7 months ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Birth of an EDA Revolution in which I first shared my growing excitement over the potential for cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to transform EDA.
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Mentor Graphics Displaced Worker Program
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 17:45 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I’m still up at the Design Verification Conference (DVCon) and have not had a chance to summarize last evening’s Software-As-A-Service and Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable. I will do that over the weekend and have a complete rundown next week, including slides. In the meantime, I wanted to pass on some information that was announced a week or so ago and which I became aware of just this week. Mentor Graphics has initiated a Displaced Worker Program to provide free training to customers who have lost thier jobs in the last 6 months.
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Update on SaaS/Cloud Roundtable & DVCon Day 1
Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 03:09 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I’d like to update you on some new panel members for the SaaS and Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable and also give you some highlights from DVCon Day 1. As previously reported, the roundtable will be held on Wednesday Feb 25th at 6:30pm in the Monterey/Carmel Rooms. We’ve picked up 2 additional panelists, Jean Brouwers and Bill Guthrie. Jean is an EDA industry veteran heavily into cloud computing and SaaS. Bill is Executive Vice President and Co-founder of Numetrics, a company that delivers its products using the SaaS model.
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Setting The Record Straight
Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 02:50 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
Since conducting the Verification Methodology Poll and publishing the raw results last week, I’ve been planning to follow up with a post that digs a little deeper into the numbers. Things have gotten rather busy in the meantime, both at work and with organizing the SaaS and Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable for next week at DVCon. So I’ve let it slip a little. Well, I noticed today that the verification methodology poll was referenced in a Cadence blog post by Adam Sherer.
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SaaS & Cloud Computing EDA Roundtable @ DVCon
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 02:03 by harry from the site harry ... the ASIC guy
I’ve been writing about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing as relates to EDA for some time now. Then back in January I made a New Years resolution to organize a SaaS EDA roundtable at the 2009 Design and Verification Conference (DVCon).  About a month ago I asked for volunteers and several of you have stepped up to help. Now, just a week before DVCon, I’d like to formally announce the event. The SaaS and Cloud Computing Roundtable will be held from 6:30 - 8:00 pm on Wed Feb 25th in the Monterey/Carmel rooms at the San Jose Doubletree Hotel.
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