The last week was busy migrating the Free Model Foundry website, and several others, to a new server. If everything went well, you should see no difference except for slightly improved performance. However, the migration was necessary. The old server was running obsolete versions of the operating system, database, and several supporting packages. Have you… Continue reading Website Update
Category: FMF Topics
The Importance of Community
Free Model Foundry is an open source company. Like other open source companies our strength comes from our user community. Users tell us what models or features we need to add. They also tell us how they use our models and which IC vendors we should approach with modeling proposals. But I do not see… Continue reading The Importance of Community
May the Source be with You
I was contacted a few weeks ago by a large systems house that occasionally contracts with FMF to provide models of logic components. They got their memory models from another company that they said they were quite happy with – until recently. The other company provided compiled models that only ran in a proprietary environment.… Continue reading May the Source be with You
Flash Memory Summit
The Flash Memory Summit, August 7-9, came just two weeks after MemCon. Given that at least half of the conversations at MemCon were about flash memory, I wondered if anyone would bother to attend a second conference on flash. Well, there were plenty of attendees and exhibitors. My completely unscientific estimate is that the Flash… Continue reading Flash Memory Summit
If You Want It, You Have to Ask for It
Since you are reading the FMF blog, I will assume you use, or are at least interested in, FMF models. Traditionally, the most difficult aspect of board level simulation has been acquiring the needed models. FMF was created to address that need. We work with component vendors to provide the models you require to verify… Continue reading If You Want It, You Have to Ask for It