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  • Paul McLellan

    Analyzing Cortex Performance 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-16-2012 05:45 AM
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    CPAK sounds like something politicians create to collect money, but in fact it is a Carbon Performance Analysis Kit. It consists of models, reference platform, initialization software (for bare metal CPAKs) or OS binary (for Linux and Android based CPAKs). They are (or will soon be) available for ARM Cortex A9, ARM Cortex A15 and ARM big.LITTLE (which is an A15 and an A7). ...
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    MIPS, ARM, ARC, Imagination, Ceva 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-15-2012 02:59 PM
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    The Linley Group, whose conference on mobile I recently attended, has some interesting data about the processor core market. Firstly, the numbers are big: CPU cores shipped in over 10 billion chips last year which is up 25% on last. ARM has a share of 78% of that entire market. The big surprise to me was the #2 was not MIPS but Synopsys with the ARC ...
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    DAC: Finding Somewhere to Eat 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-13-2012 01:00 PM
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    I am not going to attempt to give you any restaurant advice beyond what I’ve already done by listing the good places near the conference center. San Francisco reputedly has over 3000 restaurants so I don’t know anything about more than a tiny fraction. However, with that many restaurants, most places are pretty good. If not, they ...
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    ♫ If you are going to San Francisco, be sure to.... 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-10-2012 06:00 PM
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    Well, you can wear flowers in your hair if you like, but it is a bit sixties. However, here are some things that I do recommend that you be sure to do.

    Some of these recommendations require you to find a given numbered pier. The Ferry Building at the end of Market Street is effectively pier 0. Odd numbers go north (including pier 1½ ). Even numbered piers go south (although many are missing). I used ...
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    DAC: Chevy Volt Teardown 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-10-2012 05:03 PM
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    One DAC panel session that I am looking forward to attending is the Chevy Volt Teardown. This takes place at 1.30-2.30pm on Tuesday June 5th at the DAC pavilion (aka booth 310). Al Speier will be talking about a teardown that they did at Munro Associates where he is a senior associate. Unfortunately they won't actually be tearing ...
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    RTDA at DAC: Scale to Millions of Jobs 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-10-2012 05:00 PM
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    RTDA is all about enterprise level scalability. Their three main products all scale to be able to handle the most demanding needs of large companies with large farms of servers. Of course there are some new refinements too.

    LicenseMonitor can scale to 70,000 simultaneous checkouts with 1 billion checkout records in the database. There are ...
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    Atrenta at DAC: Fast Lint, IP Kit and More 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-09-2012 05:03 PM
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    Atrenta will have a new look this year at DAC. I'm not quite sure what that means but we'll all just have to go along and find out.

    They have three users talking about their use of Atrenta's tools. All 3 of these presentations are in the user-track poster session on Tuesday June 5th 12.30-1.30pm in room 105 (which is on the exhibit floor). ...
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    Apache at DAC: Customers Talk About Reliability, Low-Power and 3D 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-09-2012 11:13 AM
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    At DAC in San Francisco this year, Apache once again have a mixture of presentations by customers on their use of Apache tools and presentations by Apache themselves on their products. Most of the customer presentations are given just once, but the product presentations are given multiple times over the three days.

    I think one of the ...
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    San Francisco Bars 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-08-2012 04:00 PM
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    If you are visiting DAC and want a drink in the evening then you are in an interesting city and you don’t have to go to a bar just like the ones in the city where you live. Here are a few unique places but take note, most of these places don't serve any food, they are all about the drinks:

    Bourbon and Branch. It is an old speakeasy. You have to make ...
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    Formal Verification, there's an App for that 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-06-2012 04:00 PM
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    The success of Apple's AppStore has made people aware that software doesn't have to be delivered in a big monolithic lump. Indeed, going back a bit earlier, Apple's iTunes store made people aware that you didn't have to buy a whole album if you only wanted a track or two.

    EDA applications in today's server-farm world suffer from another problem: you might want to buy a lot ...
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