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Documentation is a hot topic, and everyone has an opinion about it. If you rely on the quality of it, there is a linear relationship between the quality of the document and the simplicity of your task. If they task you with writing the required docum...
The only question right now is, what is your goal as a (verification) engineer? Goal thinkers have a specific goal they want to achieve. A goal could be a salary of x dollar or euro. A different goal, for example, is verification lead or verification...
Companies complain often about the exploding costs of ASIC projects. Often they don’t realise their shallow cost-saving measures actually cause the entire budget to go off the rails. Especially the frugality in hiring single skilled engineers creates...
I’m still on both sides of the coin, after over two decades of ASIC design. Hiring and being hired. And both are not always pleasant experiences. Hiring is hard, getting a role is hard as well. We are all individuals, and individuals have an ego. Som...
Bitcoin ASIC miner MVP A friend of mine is working on a Minimum Viable Product for a BTC miner. Today’s bottleneck is Bitmain not selling enough miners to keep up with demand. In the short term, an FPGA MVP board proves the targeted performance. In...
I always enjoyed writing, but my current journey started in September 2017 with writing on Quora. Credit where credit is due, I unexpectedly received a message in 2018 that I got a top writer badge on Quora. And looking back at my initial writing, pe...
Looking to the current ASIC design projects, we see a discrepancy. The EDA companies push a narrative that all is well as long as you buy their tool chain. That is what I call the Disney version of reality. Real projects today rarely start with a sig...
The architect of the chip needs to foresee the future. Therefor, it is important to understand the clock and reset network. Big synchronous clock domains get in trouble during the back-end clock tree synthesis. Avoiding problems like that is the valu...
Take it from Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google. Hardware is hard. And Google is a software giant that designs its own chips. Other trillion dollar companies, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have hardware design teams too. Even Facebook has ASIC designers on t...
One of the major differences between software and hardware is the concept of a clock. It defines the rhythm the sequential elements update inside the chip. Note that in complex System-On-Chips (SoC) there are many clock frequencies that distribute to...
One of the major differences between software and hardware is the concept of a clock. It defines the rhythm the sequential elements update inside the chip. Note that in complex System-On-Chips (SoC) there are many clock frequencies that distribute ...
One of the major differences between software and hardware is the concept of a clock . It defines the rhythm the sequential elements update inside the chip. Note that in complex System-On-Chips (SoC) there are many clock frequencies that distribute ...
One of the major differences between software and hardware is the concept of a clock. It defines the rhythm the sequential elements update inside the chip. In complex System-On-Chips (SoC) there are many clock frequencies that distribute to parts of ...
The main cost of an ASIC, an Application Specific IC is related to the complexity. Basically, the silicon we start with is a clean slate. Imagine a circular surface, called a wafer, with billions of transistors. With a special technique, we will inte...
One of the major differences between software and hardware is the concept of a clock. In essence, it defines the rhythm of updating the sequential elements in the chip. And we call it synchronous design. In big complex system-on-chips there are man...
We all have this inner urge to destroy, isn’t it? Not by default. We are good people, right? It definitely needs a trigger. Some alcohol could do the trick. Or after a bad night of sleep combined with some major setback. Or Saturn lines up with the m...