OTTAWA, Canada, 16 Septembder 2009
XtremeEDA announced today one of its most experienced engineers is presenting at this year's Synopsys User's Group (SNUG) meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, held September 21st through 22nd.
Neil Johnson, Principal Consulting Engineer, will present in the MC3 session his paper entitled "A Giant, Baby Step Forward: Agile Techniques for Hardware Design". The paper explores the reasons for introducing Agile Planning techniques into an ASIC/FPGA development flow to improve RTL design and functional verification with the focus on regularly producing release caliber deliverables. Taking a page from software management, Agile Planning creates a disciplined, continuously adaptable approach to plan and develop challenging projects that can scale from small to large development teams. The paper provides an overview of agile development as it has been applied in software development with plans for how it may be adapted for use in the hardware domain.
The paper has an associated website, AgileSOC as well as a LinkedIn discussion group that's free to join.
OTTAWA, Canada, 5 May 2009
XtremeEDA announced today that two of its Engineers and two of the industry's leading Electronic System Level (ESL) experts were invited speakers for a tutorial presented at DVCon 2009. The tutorial entitled "TLM-2.0 In Action" provides an examples based approach to describe the concepts and mechanics of using the TLM-2.0 standard.
Jack Donovan (President, XtremeEDA USA) and David Black (ESL Practice Leader, XtremeEDA USA) present two of the five presentations contained in the tutorial. Register to watch the videos at http://www.systemc.org/news/events/tlm20tutorial.
OTTAWA, Canada, 16 March 2009
XtremeEDA announced today that two of its most experienced engineers are presenting at this year's Synopsys User's Group (SNUG) meeting in San Jose, California on March 16th through 19th.
Our VP of Engineering, Bryan Morris will be presenting in the TC4 session the paper he co-authored with Rob Saxe (Senior Engineer at XtremeEDA) entitled "svunit: Bringing Agile Methodologies into Functional Verification". The paper describes a new unit-test framework that XtremeEDA has developed to allow ASIC/FPGA verification engineers to use Test Driven Design -- a cornerstone of the Agile Programming Methodologies.
One of our experienced Principal Engineers, Neil Johnson will also present in the TC4 session his paper entitled "Implementing Layered Stimulus Models Using Implicit Encapsulation" that explores a novel way of creating constrained random stimulus that is inherently layered (e.g., protocol stacks like TCP/IP over Ethernet).
OTTAWA, Canada, 17 February 2009
XtremeEDA is a professional services company specializing in the validation, verification and testing of ASICs/SoCs/FPGAs through our three engineering practices: ESL, DV and DFT. Once again this year, XtremeEDA will be very active at DVCon. Many of our consultants are renowned by way of their participation in the DVCon technical program committee, presentation of tutorials and papers, acting as session chairs and working tirelessly in standards committees. Below is a short summary of our participation at DVCon 2009. Please stop by and say hello.
Jack Donovan
Jack is the president of XtremeEDA USA and an ESL expert. He is prominent in OSCI, NASCUG and TLM2.0. He'll be presenting a tutorial on TLM2.0. The abstract for that tutorial is available here Also, the agenda for NASCUG is here
Feel free to contact Jack at jdonovan@xtreme-eda.com
David Black
David is XtremeEDA's ESL Practice Leader. He is an expert in ESL and is currently the Chairperson for NASCUG.
David is one of the presenters for the following DVCon Tutorial: "TLM-2.0 in Action: An Example-based Approach to Transaction-level Modeling and the New World of Model Interoperability". This is the tutorial abstract:
The June 2008 adoption of TLM-2.0 as an OSCI standard marks the culmination of several years of intensive work. Significant effort has been invested in developing examples to describe and demonstrate the draft standard's content. This tutorial will present the details of TLM-2.0 using an examples-based approach and how to get the most value out of using the standard. The examples demonstrate the modeling styles, as well as integration of legacy models based on TLM-1 interfaces, which are fully preserved in TLM-2.0.
The tutorial is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 24 from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm. To join David, register here (Note that there is a $50 fee required).
David can be contacted at dcblack@xtreme-eda.com
Dr. Paul Marriott
Paul is XtremeEDA's Design Verification Practice Leader. Paul has been very active at DVCon over the years through his participation on the Technical Program committee, multiple papers, a regular session chair and as a panel invitee on many occasions as well. This year Paul will be the chair for Session 8: Verification Methodology and Testbenches III.
Paul can be contacted at pmarriott@xtreme-eda.com
Charles Wilson
Charles is a Senior Consultant at XtremeEDA and an ESL expert. Charles is going to give a Mystery Presentation on useful ESL methods. All those attending will receive some FREE IP. So, plan to attend this interesting and worthwhile presentation. See the NASCUG program for date and time
Claude is the President and CEO of XtremeEDA. Claude has participated at DVCon for many years now and has been an invitee on panels in the past. You can meet with Claude by contacting him at 1-604-773-1522 or ccloutier@xtreme-eda.com