Interview with Paul Marriott at SystemC Day, DVCon2010 by Graham Bell of EDACafé
OTTAWA, Canada, 17 February 2010
XtremeEDA announced today its participation in the DVCon2010 conference to be held February 22nd to 25th.
Dr Paul Marriott, Director of Verification, will be moderating the Using System Verilog session. David Black will be presenting a paper entitled "Look Ma, No Clocks! Improving Model Performance" at the co-located 12th NASCUG event which forms part of the DVCon SystemC Day. Visit the XtremeEDA table and receive a 25% discount on training coupon.
Claude Cloutier, President, and Jim Nash, VP Sales, will be attending and can be reached at 604-773-1522 and 508-735-9929 respectively.
OTTAWA, Canada, 16 February 2010
XtremeEDA announced today one of its most experienced engineers is presenting at this year's Synopsys User's Group (SNUG) meeting in San Jose, California, held March 29th through 31st.
Neil Johnson will be presenting a paper co-authored with Bryan Morris on March 30th in the TC2 User session, entitled "Agile IC Development with Scrum". This paper continues from our previous papers describing XtremeEDA's Agile IC methodology. This latest paper provides an introduction to the "Scrum" framework, along with concrete guidelines on how it can be introduced into your existing workflow with the potential to increase your team's productivity.
Scrum is a process for developing software based on industrial process control theory used heavily in agile software development. It employs mechanisms such as self-organization and emergence where a self-managed team incrementally develops software through a series of 30-day sprints. Scrum relies on the assumption that in committing to a set of regularly scheduled deliveries, the most effective processes will emerge from the team itself. Process imposed by the team, Scrum asserts, is more effective than defined or externally imposed process.
OTTAWA, Canada, 15 February 2010
David Black is to present a seminar to the Silicon Valley Chapter SIG Systems on Chip (SoC) group of the North America Taiwanese Engineers' Association on February 23rd 2010.
The abstract of the seminar is "Digital Systems are becoming more complex every day as densities and speed of silicon components has risen to amazing levels. At the same time, the complexity of these systems is becoming a concern as project schedules push out and inevitable problems crop up in the hardware/software interface. This talk will look at how some current technologies are addressing this issue and suggest some possible directions."
OTTAWA, Canada, 15 February 2010
Neil Johnson has just posted another paper in a continuing series on Agile development at www.agilesoc.com entitled "Adaptability Breeds Success in IP Development"
This article proposes techniques used in agile software development and lean product development as a means of creating a responsive, highly adaptive IP development team that is driven by the needs of its customers. The article identifies an adaptive and successful IP development team as one that:
- engages with customers early and often;
- establishes a cycle for feedback; and
- establishes a cycle for improvement.
For more information on Agile Methodologies see XtremeEDA's XtremeBoost::planning service