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All things IP and EDA fall under the jurisdiction of the EDA Designline site editor, Brian Bailey (brian_bailey@acm.org) and his trusty wing-nut (sorry, wing-man) Max The Magnificent (max@CliveMaxfield.com)

Don’t bandy paraprosdokians with me!

Clive Maxfield

2/11/2012 3:56 PM EST

I’m on Gary Smith’s “jokes list”, which means I never know what’s going to appear in my “Inbox”…


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What would you do for an iPad2?

Brian Bailey

2/10/2012 11:31 AM EST

TLMCentral is kicking into high gear with competitions to spur donation of Open Source models into the community. Are you up for the challenge…


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Opinion: The yin and yang of designing big chips

Patrick Groeneveld

2/10/2012 10:16 AM EST

Patrick Groeneveld is this year's chair for DAC. In this opinion piece he talks about value in synthesis and analysis tools...


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Things that go “meep” in the night

Clive Maxfield

2/9/2012 11:41 AM EST

I just had a very unsatisfactory night’s sleep, because something kept on going “meep” and I couldn’t track it down…


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Upcoming Conferences: calls and more – Feb 9th

Brian Bailey

2/9/2012 10:32 AM EST

Conference related information, calls for papers, contributions and participation are all found here…


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Ten things I want to do before I die…

Clive Maxfield

2/8/2012 3:51 PM EST

I don’t want to sound maudlin, but every now and then as one gets older, thoughts of mortality do tend to cross one’s mind…


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EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 8th

Brian Bailey

2/8/2012 10:50 AM EST

Element14, Verific, Coventor, Silicon Frontline, Cadence, Breker and Elliptic made the lineup today. See here for their news…


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Why is DesignCon important for IC designers?

Brian Bailey

2/8/2012 10:27 AM EST

Not one, but two videos of your editor speaking at DesignCon or a variety of subjects including the impact that board design has on chip design…


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Free 2-day course: Designing with SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs

Clive Maxfield

2/7/2012 12:55 PM EST

SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs include a hard ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller core, so this course will be of interest to a wide audience…


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Apache wins award for power

Brian Bailey

2/7/2012 12:53 PM EST

Power is a big issue these days, and not only did Apache win an award for it, they also contributed to a great Webinar that you must watch…


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