Coming Attractions: Military and Aerospace IESF (Part 1)
Mentor Graphics has just revealed the program for its upcoming Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum (IESF) 2011. If you’re not familiar with IESF, it’s one of the world’s leading events for design engineers, engineering management, and executives in the military and aerospace (mil/aero) industry. Even better, it’s free and in a great summer locale: the Marriott Long Beach hotel, in Long Beach, Calif. … Read More
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Last night, in his traditional DAC-opening presentation, Gary Smith addressed the crowd with a loud and clear message about the cost of doing hardware design. Design costs are steadily increasing and this is draining life and blood out of the industry. When chip design costs reach $25M, VCs stop funding start-ups. When costs reach $50M, continued Gary Smith, even IDMs struggle to afford ASIC developments.
So … 
Four German automotive firms are embarking on a three-year collaborative research project to see if they can make vehicle diagnostics more like science than art.
Audi, Continental, Infineon, and ASIC/ASSP developer ZMD estimate that up to 40 percent of vehicle electronics errors can’t be precisely diagnosed, which isn’t a huge surprise considering that cars these days contain 80-something electronic … 
Last week, I interviewed two designers at Broadcom for a customer success story. This was another very interesting project and the empirical results of their story are quite impressive.
The focus of the Broadcom story is I/O Designer. If you’re not familiar with “IOD” and you design boards incorporating FPGAs, ASICs or any large-pin-array IC, you really should take a look at our I/O Designer webpage.
The … 
As a specialist in embedded software, I think that Mentor Graphics is an interesting place to work. The company has historically been dedicated to serving the needs of hardware developers - whether they are designing cables, boards, FPGAs, ASICs or custom chips. These technologies still dominate the product range today. The Embedded Systems Division is different - we offer products for embedded software … 
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