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August 7, 2015

The Deep Blue Sea of EDA

Searching for RTL Answers with Blue Pearl
by Amelia Dalton

In this week’s Fish Fry we’re looking for pearls in the the deep waters of EDA. My guest is Scott Bloom from Blue Pearl Software. Scott and I chat about RTL debugging with formal technology, multi-trace technology, and what it’s like to crash land a plane and survive. Also this week, we investigate some serious power-related issues that your signal integrity tool may not be equipped to handle.


 

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Blue Pearl Software Announces Release 9.1 Featuring New RTL Debugging Environment Including Formal Technology for Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Top 10 Reasons Real Signal Integrity Engineers Demand Power-Aware SI Technology

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Moshe Gavrielov, CEO – Xilinx

Darrin Billerbeck, CEO – Lattice Semiconductor

Bill Neifert, CTO – Carbon Design Systems

Sean Dart, CEO – Forte Design Systems

Andy Pease, CEO – QuickLogic

Paul Kocher, President – Cryptography Research Inc.

Anupam Bakshi, CEO – Agnisys

Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software

Robert Blake, CEO – Achronix

Jack Harding, CEO – eSilicon

Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific

Adnan Hamid, CEO – Breker Technologies

Jeff Waters, VP and General Manager – Altera

Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas

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