Gardens are where your average Joe and Mother Nature can collaborate. (That is, “garden” in the American sense, not necessarily the British sense, which Americans would call a “yard.”) You decide where you want your plants – flowers, bushes, vegetables, whatever – and then you plant them. You might put down seeds or seedlings or plants that are already teenagers. They may or may not survive or thrive, but, at the very least (unlike human teenagers), you know where they will be.

My daughter got me a home mushroom kit a couple of … Read More → "Magic Mushrooms"

Rapidly migrating intellectual property (IP) from one foundry to another and from one process node to the next can be a challenging, but necessary, part of the business, especially if the IP is generated and delivered as hardmacro IP.  That’s because hard IP or a GDSII netlist versus soft IP, RTL or gate-level netlist must be available for all major foundries and for a wide selection of process nodes at each foundry.

Designing new memory IP is largely a manual task that involves more analog circuits —charge pumps, voltage regulators and sense amplifiers, … Read More → "A Design Methodology for Building Process-Independent Hardmacro IP"