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Simulating the Real World

FloVIZ, the free FloTHERM/FloVENT CFD results viewer, try it, it's free

Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, is a simulation technology that provides 3D predictions of fluid flow and heat transfer for a...

Verification Horizons

OVM 1.0 Register Package Released

After months of field testing and several beta releases the past few years, Mentor Graphics has released the OVM 1.0...

Embedded Software

Product quality: belief or proof?

There are two aspects of any product that give me great pleasure: good design and quality of manufacture. This applies...

Embedded Software

Vacation for the PC repair man

I have used PCs for many years. The first one, way back in 1986 was a “genuine” IBM PC XT...

Simulating the Real World

'Heat Trees' - taking a leaf out of natures book

Heatsinks aren’t a novel energy efficient type of washing bowl, they are parts that are placed on high powered IC...

Embedded Software

Agile revisited

I am always delighted when I get responses or feedback resulting from postings here. About a month ago, I wrote...

Verification Horizons

Accellera Adopts OVM

Users Can Start Migration to OVM Today Accellera’s Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) Technical Committee (TC) co-chair issued a public status...

Electronic Systems Design

AMI - The next modeling frontier

If you do any kind of multi-gigabit SerDes design, you’ve probably come across the acronym, AMI – Algorithmic Modeling Interface.  ...

Embedded Software

Time's arrow

I have always enjoyed science fiction on TV, movies and books. One facet of the genre that I find particularly...