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
MemCon and Different Folks
On July 17 & 18 I attended MemCon in Santa Clara. I was able to attend only the first half of the conference due to the pressures of work back in the office. The most frequently discussed topics were NAND Flash and cell phones although a number of other topics rounded out the conference. My… Continue reading MemCon and Different Folks
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