If you blog about EDA or other tech design topics, or are thinking about doing so, consider attending the Bloggers’ Birds-of-a-Feather meeting at the Design Automation Conference in Anaheim next month. The meeting will be held at 6 pm, Wednesday, June 11, in Rooms 201B and 201C at the Anaheim Convention Center. Come and meet… Continue reading EDA Bloggers Meet at DAC
See You at DAC
Are you attending the Design Automation Conference in Anaheim this year? Our good friends at Aldec have been supports of Free Model Foundry for more years than I can remember. Among other things, they provide us with licenses for testing our models on their Riviera simulator. This year they have also graciously allowed me to… Continue reading See You at DAC
My New Friend Vikash
Yesterday I met Vikash. He operates a relatively new website named FPGACentral. FPGA Central is created to provide a central place for FPGA/CPLD Vendors & Users to share experiences and information about FPGA Design, Development, Verification, Validation, Process, Tools & Products. Since the largest use of FMF models is for FPGA verification, we had a… Continue reading My New Friend Vikash
How “Open” are FMF Models?
Today, someone asked in the forum what restrictions are placed on the use of FMF models. FMF models are as open as we can make them. They are distributed as source code and are licensed under the Gnu Public License (GPL). There is only one restriction: If you choose to sell, distribute or publish one… Continue reading How “Open” are FMF Models?
Website Update
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