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Slideshow: Hanging out at a hardware hackathon
Rick Merritt
1/29/2013 7:01 AM EST
Organizer is online tool maker
The startup is about to launch an online simulation tool similar to HSpice that like its other tools is hosted on Amazon Web Services. Upverter has survived on a few hundred thousand dollars of angel seed money so far, but is about to go for a first funding round of as much as $5 million in a first round.
Homuth doesn’t expect to seek help from traditional EDA companies.
“We have stayed away from those guys,” Homuth said. “They have been talking about this sort of thing for ten years but it was all hot air, we just went and built it because we didn’t know you couldn’t do it,” he joked.
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Zak Homuth (below), co-founder and chief executive of startup upverter.com organized the hackathon. His company launched online tools for schematic capture and pcb layout in 2010 that he claims are now in use by 10,000 engineers. It hosts quarterly hackathons to acquaint engineers with its tools.
The startup is about to launch an online simulation tool similar to HSpice that like its other tools is hosted on Amazon Web Services. Upverter has survived on a few hundred thousand dollars of angel seed money so far, but is about to go for a first funding round of as much as $5 million in a first round.
Homuth doesn’t expect to seek help from traditional EDA companies.
“We have stayed away from those guys,” Homuth said. “They have been talking about this sort of thing for ten years but it was all hot air, we just went and built it because we didn’t know you couldn’t do it,” he joked.
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rick.merritt
1/29/2013 11:48 AM EST
Is this the flavor of innovation the data center needs?
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chanj
1/31/2013 1:59 AM EST
Very interesting slideshow. Is there any more details? I'm particularly interested in the "Servers get unwired".
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rick.merritt
1/31/2013 10:29 AM EST
Facebook's Prineville, Ore. facilities manager worked on a Bluetooth link to report stats from an individual server.
But a more ambitious effort--that won the prize--worked on a sensor network to report details from many servers. I have no other info on it, though.
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timbo_test
3/12/2013 3:47 AM EDT
Its good to see articles on events like this, but a realy pity that the 'featured comments' have been placed to obscure some of the pictures!
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