This year’s attendance at Denali’s MemCon seems at least as big as last year’s. I don’t have actual numbers but the presentation hall was nearly full – and it is a big hall. Phase Change Memory I found the first two presentations to be the most interesting. The first was by Ed Doller, the CTO… Continue reading Tuesday at MemCon
MemCon Next Week
For those of you living near Silicon Valley, this is a reminder that Denali MemCon is next week. Running Monday through Wednesday, June 22-24, it will include talks on NAND Flash Controllers, Solid State Drives (SSDs), DDR3 DRAM, and low power memory subsystems. The conference is being held at the Hyatt on Great America Parkway… Continue reading MemCon Next Week
Model Requests
We have on the FMF website, a model request form. Many of you have already used this form and I thank you. At this time I would like to explain what happens when an engineer requests a model. It begins with a user filling out the on-line form. The minimum required information is your name,… Continue reading Model Requests
The Value of Integrated Schematic Libraries
Why talk about schematic libraries in a blog focused on system verification? Most systems (printed circuit boards on up) are still designed using schematic capture software. I was talking to a manager at a medical devices company the other day about his company’s schematic symbol library. Like most libraries, it contained schematic symbols and a… Continue reading The Value of Integrated Schematic Libraries
Embedded Systems Conference – Follow Up
I was able to spend a third day (Wednesday) at the Embedded Systems Conference before more pressing work caught up with me. It was a very busy show with roughly 175 presentations and 230 exhibitors. Here are the primary impressions I took away: Energy harvesting, the ability to extract energy from the ambient environment, is… Continue reading Embedded Systems Conference – Follow Up