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Electronic Systems Design

PADS Tips and Tricks - Assigning a Shortcut Key to a Macro

Have you written a macro and want to execute it quickly and easily with a custom defined shortcut key?  That’s...

Simulating the Real World

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 2: TIM Thermal Conductivity

The temperature rise that electronic components attain in operation is due to 3 things. The power that they dissipate, the...

Verification Horizons

VHDL Update Comes to Verification Academy!

VHDL-2008 Explained Via 7 Course Modules For some time now a dedicated group of engineers have defined and standardized an...

Embedded Software

An alternative to online dating

Meeting that Special Someone in this day and age is tough. The workplace is fraught with difficulties and, if you...

Embedded Software

Designing a low power CPU

First up, please remember that I am a software guy, not a chip designer. Please read this posting with that...

Simulating the Real World

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 1: Them and Us.

Before you sell it, or commission it, you want to be sure that it works. Monies have been spent on...

Embedded Software

The mayonnaise jar and the two pints of beer

This is an old story – almost definitely an urban myth. But I think that it makes some good points,...

Embedded Software

Write-only ports

I often joke that my job puts me in a difficult position, as I am a software guy and a...

Embedded Software

The new Box Brownie

In 1888, 125 years ago, George Eastman coined the slogan, “you press the button, we do the rest”; and the...