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Analog and custom design teams create many versions of schematics and layouts throughout the project life cycle as they optimize, verify, and refine their designs. Understanding exactly what changed between versions is critical, but it often depends on incomplete check-in comments, manual inspection, emails, or conversations… Read More
We have all heard of many advanced technological inventions and products from the defense sector that subsequently got commercialized. While most of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) projects are classified secrets, many military innovations have had great influence in the commercial sector in the fields… Read More
It’s time again to gather for the next Design Automation Conference (DAC). This will be the 54[SUP]th[/SUP] such meeting and this year it runs from June 19[SUP]th[/SUP] – 21[SUP]st[/SUP] in the Live Music Capital of the World, Austin Texas. Put on your best duds, boots and cowboy hat and make your way to Texas.
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On July 4, 2012, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, announced that the ATLAS and CMS experiments had each observed a new particle, which is consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector with a broad physics… Read More
I first met Betty Pokerwinski of Qualcomm at LinkedIn in the group called IC Layout Designers. I post frequently on LinkedIn and a blog article on an EDA tool called Visual Design Diff from ClioSoft created quite a discussion, enough so that I contacted Betty to learn more about her IC layout group at Qualcomm.
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