It is common knowledge that Vivado uses an analytical place and route engine for better and more predictable design closure. As a result, Vivado got rid of the “cost table” (also commonly known as random seeds) user options. What may be less well-known is that designers still have ways to introduce randomness into Vivado placement. Like […]
The notion of a self-driving or autonomous vehicle is firmly embedded in the collective consciousness; we’ve come quite a way since the days when such things were the stuff of science fiction. Now everyone knows what a self-driving car is, and quite possible has seen one in action on nearby roads. In search of timing closure… […]
Of all the good things that OpenCL promises, the most attractive proposition is how different processors and cores in a multi-compute-core system can be utilised and maximised with a single programming framework. The ability to combine processing modules of different capabilities to perform particular tasks is, of course, the heterogenous computing concept that has been […]
I think that most of us have experienced times when we were steadily going about our lives, absorbed in our daily routines and tasks, often content in the knowledge that whatever it was, we were making steady progress on all fronts; and then life suddenly throws a curveball. Imagine a person whom you regard as […]
In this edition we have some exciting updates about our new office in East Singapore, new Sales Reps onboard, an exciting investment announcement and last but not least, the upcoming release of InTime version 1.4.4. Plunify opens new headquarters in eastern Singapore Plunify appoints new reps in Beijing and Israel New InTime software version 1.4.4 […]
Once in a while we come across cool stuff like this! Have fun! Check them out: Zero Characters Left: DIY FPGA-based HDMI ambient lighting “Ambient lighting is a technique that creates light effects around the television that correspond to the video content. It has been pioneered by Philips under the brand Ambilight. In this project we […]
News of Tabula’s closure was naturally a big thing to people in the industry. For years, Tabula had been the shiny, young FPGA company with lots of talent and funding. Not that Tabula stayed a startup for long, given the considerable resources that it amassed. Many former colleagues had gone over to Tabula over the […]
http://eecatalog.com/chipdesign/2015/02/04/the-coming-year-in-eda-what-will-shape-2015/ Hamhua Ng, CEO of Plunify said: “There is much truth in the saying, ‘Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it,’ especially in the data-driven world that we live in today. It seems like every retailer, social network and financial institution is analyzing and finding patterns in the data that we […]
EDA Past, Present, and Future with Lucio Lanza. Another amazing interview from one of our investors. http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20141219-fishfry/
Saw this interesting post about names people come up with for their companies. Ours is mentioned within although the origin of “Plunify” is probably not that interesting compared to some of the others! http://www10.edacafe.com/blogs/thebrekertrekker/2014/12/16/guest-post-whats-in-a-name/ For the record, we named our FPGA timing closure and optimization tool InTime because we wanted to help engineers get home […]