Choke Points -- Interest Payments on Technical Debt Now that we've reviewed "how we got here" in Part I and Part II, let's talk about the impact these forces have [...]
Hot Off The Presses! This year's DAC will have the Design Infrastructure Alley, a section of DAC devoted to the infrastructure required to design chips and systems. Â The premise for [...]
Creating Cloud-Based Applications That Are Secure AND Usable Is Hard Another day, another headline about data security "In the Cloud". Â Here's a sampling of some past headlines of data loss [...]
Talking Infrastructure At the Premier Semiconductor Conference I've been going to DAC for several years now, which is a bit of an oddity for an IT guy. Â The CELUG Co-Located [...]
Origin of the Species Now that we have seen the technical and economic forces which shaped the modern EDA/HPC environment from Part I, let's take a closer look at the [...]
Humbles Beginnings: CELUG A Brief History of How We Came To Be It's important to start with the original organization from which this is modeled. Â The Centralized Enterprise License [...]
Who Are We, And Why Are We Here? The Semiconductor IT field has always been a bit of a misfit. It's not "traditional IT". Â If you look at the [...]
The Origin of the Species -- How Today's Semiconductor Environments Evolved The current paradigm for Semiconductor computing dates back to the 1990's. Â It was a heady time for the industry [...]