Spending a couple of days in the Lone Star State for the 50th Design Automation Conference–more precisely, in Austin, live music capital of the world, a very nice city (if a little warm) with sumptuous food and a vibrant semiconductor community. Due to a tight schedule, we didn’t get to go to any of the jazz lounges, […]
I’d like to share a story which our customer has graciously allowed us to write about. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the leading R&D organization in South Africa, looking into areas like defense, communications and bioscience. The CSIR engineers are a great bunch of people–friendly and very good at what they […]
(Originally published at AllProgrammablePlanet) “… Recently, I completed “The Wheel of Time” novels — a fantasy series written by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson over a period of two decades. Events in the story take place in a fictitious world created by the author’s imagination and brought to life in words — a creative process that […]
Neon lights, glitzy shows and the latest in consumer electronics. Who could have resisted the opportunity to meet chip designers at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? Not us! As part of a joint effort with a couple of other companies, we organized what became known as Suite Innovation (https://www.facebook.com/SuiteInnovation), a CES event […]
Plunify had the opportunity to showcase FPGAAccel and the capabilities of its cloud platform at this annual semiconductor industry event that was held on April 24-26, 2012 at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Center Singapore. http://www.semiconsingapore.org/
A poll on the challenges associated with FPGA design in an FPGA discussion group on LinkedIn caught my attention recently. Conducted by Cuong Nguyen from EDA Direct, it drew several lengthy comments. Poll: FPGA Design Challenges My vote went to Timing Closure – definitely one of the most frustrating and time-consuming classes of problems for […]
(This post was sparked by an interesting email conversation with a user. I promised that I will post my views in a new blog article, so here it is) Why doesn’t Plunify yet provide a hybrid solution, a solution that works seamlessly on private and public clouds? For those who are finding out about us […]
At an industry event last Friday (Oct 14th 2011), we had the chance to present a talk on, “What Can FPGA Designers Do With Personal Data Centers?” and demonstrate our new cloud-based approach to achieving timing closure for an FPGA design. Opening Mike Holt, Vice-President of the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association, opened the event with […]
Security has long been one of the first and most pressing questions for the cloud. Users and business owners are naturally wary about placing sensitive data in the hands of a 3rd-party. This is especially true for the semiconductor chip design industry, and rightly so. However, one point which is gaining acceptance is that if […]