Posts Tagged ‘Warren Savage’
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Bill Martin, President/VP of Engineering at E-System Design, sent a thoughtful response to my April 25th blog regarding Accellera’s recently released Soft IP Tagging 1.0 standard. I appreciate the time he took to clarify the ongoing need for such a standard.
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I was part of VSIA when Kathy Werner was driving the IP tagging standards. I am happy this one from Accellera is now out [Soft IP Tagging 1.0] and the various users can determine how best to apply it. It is a large step forward, but only one of many required.
Unfortunately, the current system for IP tagging can be easily ‘hacked’ to disable any tracking. Simple text editing the source code and removing a few lines can completely remove the tag. But Accellera’s standard is a good first step to hone the standard; understanding how it works and does not work for various constituents.
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Tags: Accellera, Bill Martin, E-System Design, GSA, GSA Interest Group, GSA IP ROI Calculator, IPextreme, Kathy Warner, Soft IP Tagging 1.0 standard, VSIA, Warren Savage
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013
Despite grumbling to the contrary, even some that I myself put forth in a blog earlier this year, there will indeed be a daily dose of IP information doled out at DAC in Austin in June. If you’re interested in IP, DAC 2013 actually promises to be quite informative. You can arrange your schedule so as to attend a single significant session each day devoted to various aspects of IP with all of its promise and particulars.
Here’s your DAC planning guide …
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Tags: Arteris, Atrenta, Chris Rowen, DAC 2013, Dan Kochpatcharin, David Murray, Duolog Technologies, Frank Ferro, Freescale, Hans Bouwmeester, IPextreme, John Eaton, John Swanson, Jose Nunez, Kamlesh Kumar Pathak, Keith Odom, Laurent Moll, Magillem Design Services, McKenzie Mortensen, Michael Cizi, Mike Gianfagna, Nagendra Gulur, National Instruments, Open-Silicon, Ouabache Designworks, Sonics, Southwest Reuse, STMicro, Sylvain Duvilliard, Synopsys, Tensilica, TI, TSMC, Vasant Kumar Easwaran, Warren Savage
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Sometimes life gets away from you. You post a blog lamenting too little coverage of IP at DATE and DAC, receive in response a number of lively emails, and then sit on all of it because life’s gotten away from you. Among those emails is a telling note from the folks at IPextreme offering to send you some marketing materials they claim is relevant to your thesis about IP, EDA, and conference-coverage disconnects. You accept their offer, but because life is still getting away from you, when the big white envelope from IPextreme arrives, it sits in the InBox, ignored and unopened.
Finally the moment arrives when you can no longer allow life to get away. You open the envelope, examine the contents, stagger back in amazement, and after muttering omg several times, sit down to write this blog. Xena, IPextreme’s Warrior Princess, the Graphic Novel & Morality Play will be ignored no more. As you flip through the pages – all 36 of them – you take another sip of wine and wonder why other companies have been ignoring not just Xena, but all she represents.
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Tags: Graphic Novel, IP, IPextreme, SIP, Warren Savage, Xena
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Behind Warren Savage’s calm and courteous demeanor beats the heart of a revolutionary: A guy who not only talks the talk, but walks the walk of growing his beloved IP industry through the most radical of ideas – cooperation.
 Warren is the founder and CEO of IPextreme, a Silicon-Valley based company helping other companies commercialize their IP, small nuggets of pure gold that would otherwise enjoy only internal use. With the assist of Warren & Co, that gold is beefed up, intensely documented, and then licensed to users outside the firewall who then have access to robust 3rd-party design blocks, yielding revenue back to the IP developers they would not otherwise enjoy.
So that’s Warren’s business, but what’s really impressive about Warren is the other half of his professional involvement: working through the GSA [Global Semiconductor Alliance] to enhance the well-being of all players in the IP industry, not just his customers. Warren chairs GSA’s Working Group on IP, and leads the Leadership Group subset within that Working Group.
Warren also founded and continues to lead Constellations, a consortium-like group of IP vendors who meet regularly to discuss business issues, develop joint solutions, and host invitation-only events for their customers. The next Constellations event is coming up in early October.
Clearly, Warren Savage is a revolutionary, someone who believes a rising tide raises all boats in the IP industry and acts vigorously on that belief. Warren and I spoke by phone on August 22nd.
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Tags: 3rd-party IP, ARM, ColdFire, Compact JTAG, Constellations, DAC, EDAC, Freescale, Global Semiconductor Alliance, GSA, GSA IP Working Group, Infineon, Intel, IPextreme, MIPS, PowerPC, Reuse Methodology Manual, Silicon IP, Synopsys, VSIA, Warren Savage
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