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Jacek Hanke
Jacek Hanke is the CEO in Digital Core Design. He established DCD with his colleagues in 1999 - they all studied at The Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland. When he graduated in 1999, he got some interesting job posts from big companies from USA, Japan and Western Europe. But he … More » What the FAQ with obsolete & EOL parts?February 11th, 2020 by Jacek Hanke
There’s an old saying that we like the things we know. The same goes with CPUs and other electronics. We use some specific ASICs or FPGAs for years, cause they just are there. And what to do if they become obsolete and manufacturer decided not to offer them anymore?DCD’s got an answer. Use 1:1 replacement for EOL, which is 100% compatible with an original chip. Both FPGAs and ASICs offer great variety of solutions which can be efficiently and effortlessly utilized in the final design. Here’s a FAQ to help you move forward.Jacek Hanke, DCD’s CEO says that the experience his company gained during last 20 years is priceless. – Among 70 different architectures one can easily find obsolete and hard to find discontinued electronic components – he says. Basing on hitherto experience, we can say that:
Enabling 400G Networking with 56G Ethernet PHY IPMay 6th, 2019 by Sanjay Gangal
Sanjay Gangal interviewed Rita Horner, Senior Technical Marketing Manager of Synopsys at EDACafe headquarteers. SG: You attended the IP-SOC conference here yesterday, and you did a presentation there. RH : Yes, we had a very interesting day yesterday at IP-SOC. SG: Tell us what was your presentation was about. RH : I presented on the 400G adoption, and the new networking data centers enabled by the 56G PHY. That was the topic of the presentation that I made yesterday. Read the rest of Enabling 400G Networking with 56G Ethernet PHY IP Silicon Catalyst: Leading the Renaissance in HardwareDecember 28th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
I made the mistake of being on the Streets of San Francisco on Tuesday, November 7th, and was witness to the madding DreamForce crowds – particularly the lucky 50,000+ of them headed to AT&T Park where Alicia Keyes and Lenny Kravitz were waiting to entertain the VIPs of the SalesForce world. Although the traffic was debilitating on that Tuesday night, the sheer scale of the SalesForce presence (now very obvious in San Francisco as their towering mega-temple is about debut) provided such an interesting compare and contrast to my adventures on the following morning. On Wednesday, November 8th, I had the good fortune to attend a Press and Analyst briefing at a low-slung building in Silicon Valley. The hosts of that event were the leadership and evangelists of a small, laser-focused group called Silicon Catalyst – an incubator that intends to pave the way for the semiconductor super stars of the future. The folks at Silicon Catalyst hope that one of the companies in their carefully vetted portfolio may become the SalesForce of tomorrow, the mega-force in technology that dominates cities, skylines, and baseball parks. Read the rest of Silicon Catalyst: Leading the Renaissance in Hardware Methodics: Integrated IP/Lifecycle Management Tools for the EnterpriseDecember 21st, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
The company’s strategy of integrating their lifecycle management tools with products like Perforce version control software and Subversion from Apache, means they dovetail with industry standard solutions. As a natural outgrowth from that, Methodics’ IP-related offerings also work at the enterprise level, helping the customer’s distributed team coordinate and catalog IP use, and keeping track of third-party IP use as well. In my recent phone call with Methodics CEO Simon Butler, it was clear the company is seeing the fruits of their many years of hard labor come to fruition. Read the rest of Methodics: Integrated IP/Lifecycle Management Tools for the Enterprise Happy Talk: CEOs, Celebrity, SeasoningDecember 14th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
An honor, because the CEO’s organization has decided your track record as a journalist warrants a few minutes of time with the company’s leadership. A pain, because the more highly paid the CEO, the larger the organization, the bigger the market cap, the less unvarnished the truth you’ll hear during the interview. It’s guaranteed, while interviewing a high-flying CEO, that you’ll hear that everything is great with the company. The customers love the company’s products, can’t live without them, and assist and insist on helping the company produce its next release. REUSE 2017: Opportunity knocks, Who’s answeringDecember 7th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
It goes without saying that IP is a pivotal part of the semiconductor supply chain today. Organizations like Arm and Synopsys reap huge benefits from being among the principal suppliers of that IP. But there are hundreds of IP companies in the world – big, medium, and small – that also provide IP. Potentially, they could all be participating in something like Reuse 2017. Arm, for instance, is participating in the conference, along with dozens of smaller companies. Synopsys, however, is not. Read the rest of REUSE 2017: Opportunity knocks, Who’s answering Sonics: Leading the industry by exampleNovember 30th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Currently Grant Pierce is an exceptionally busy man. Not only is he leading Sonics, he’s also serving as Chair of the ESD Alliance. It’s a fortunate circumstance to have Pierce leading the Alliance; his point of view is exactly what’s needed to help shape what was originally an EDA-focused organization into something that embraces the full set of constituencies driving electronic system design today. Pierce is strongly committed to new technologies and the small companies that drive the innovation. Pierce and I spoke by phone in late November. He is clearly very enthused about the company and the ESD Alliance. IP-SoC 2017 – Headliners include de Geus, SaxbyNovember 16th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
To celebrate, IP-SoC 2017 is showcasing two of the biggest names in the IP industry – Synopsys CEO Dr. Aart de Geus and ARM founder Sir Robin Saxby. That’s pretty news worthy and a distinct reflection of the significant role Design and Reuse has played for more than two decades in promoting the wide-spread development and reuse of semiconductor IP. Of course, it’s also worth noting that de Geus and Saxby will not be the only speakers with deep expertise in the technology. Read the rest of IP-SoC 2017 – Headliners include de Geus, Saxby Arm Momentum: Segars embraces exciting timesNovember 9th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Last year, Japan-based SoftBank purchased ARM for $32 billion, just a few days after the Brexit vote, and took the company private. This year, SoftBank sold 25-percent of ARM to Saudi Arabia, in a deal that was part of the company’s (and kingdom’s) Vision Fund juggernaut. Simon Segars has more than survived all of this change. He is still CEO of the most ubiquitous IP provider in the world, and now also has a seat on the Board of Directors of SoftBank. As I prepared for my phone call with Segars last week, I was pretty sure he would decline to answer the bulk of the questions on my list. Surprisingly, however, he answered all of them, with ease and on the record. We started with the most astonishing news of all: ARM has changed its name. Read the rest of Arm Momentum: Segars embraces exciting times UltraSoC: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli now leads BoardNovember 2nd, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
UltraSoC CEO Rupert Baines was also on the conference call, dialing in from the UK, while I was in Silicon Valley. The conversation began with a discussion of Sangiovanni-Vincentelli’s ongoing research work in Singapore. Three sentences, four geographies: What more proof is needed that the semiconductor industry is indeed global? Read the rest of UltraSoC: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli now leads Board |
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