http://www.srikiran.net/blog Kiran Bulusu is an Field Applications Engineer with experience in the domain of Formal Verification, Logic Synthesis, DFT,Timing Closure, Floorplan and Place and Route, ,RTL-GDSII Design Methodology and Flow development,Pre-Sales and Post-Sales of the product. He is an evangelist and has expereince in technical marketing in EDA and Semiconductor industry. He is currently employed at Magma Design Automation. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:59:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check this link : http://www.nvidia.com/object/balancedpc.html and then scroll down and click "launch configurator" Heres the config I came up with..its best among the given comb if choices.. http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2008/06/18/balanced-pc-configuration-cool-util-from-nvidia-to-find-best-cpu-gpu-perf/ Cisco On-stage Telepresence : http://www.musion.co.uk/Cisco_TelePresence.html Hand Cellular tech ad from QCOM ( its friggin cool) : http://youtube.com/watch?v=oYimJPi5qJY I'll continue to update these links as and when I find something interesting in Hardware/Semiconductor space. http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2008/05/29/cool-hw-technology-demos-ads/ Often there might be cases when we dont know whats the cause of congestion. You can never point at one source and this contributes to congestion. This has to be tracked from very early in the flow (logic synthesis). I will try to highlight some of the things to check based ... http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2008/05/27/congestion-analysis-logic-synthesis-and-floorplanning/ Floorplanning is an visual art. I believe this process can never be fully automated. What I mean by this, you cannot just simply push a button and let the tool do the job and give you a production quality floorplan the very first time. You can automate the process, but the ... http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2008/05/27/floorplanning-degree-of-automation/ For last couple of months, I want to move to personal financial SW and I'm glad to  recommend yodlee money (web based). My criteria were 1. Sophisticated ,yet simple in terms of management 2. Ability to auto categorize transactions with minimal guidance 3. Easy Account setup 4. Ability to setup budgets 5. Gives me spending ... http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2008/05/27/personal-finance-management-brief-review/ Recently I was talking with someone and he asks me this funny question. What is the difference between a Field Applications Engineer and a Sales executive apart from the fact that FAE has technical responsibilties? In a broad sense, both belong to the sales organization and are part of the strategy ... http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2007/10/01/field-applications-engineer-and-sales-executive/ Lets face it. You have run the logic synthesis/physical synthesis tool and you have a problem. You havent met slack. Now what? where do you start? Each issue depends on the design/process node, I'm going to keep it simple and will list few pointers/tips as to where we should be ... http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2007/09/17/debugging-qor-issue-logic-synthesis-timing-optimization/ Q1. Why are you creating the new product? a) Is it because you see a gap in the current industry offerings and trying to fill in. b) Or if there is a similar product, you see that your product changes the quality of service or life of your customers. For SW companes, ... http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2007/03/02/product-planning-criteria/ Folks who wants to read my part I of the formal verification series , click this link : www.srikiran.net/blog/2007/01/22/debugging-formal-verification-fv-problems-fv-primer I wont be elaborating much on points when they are self explanatory and some have been already covered in part I ( setting up the FV env section ) 1. Check for unmapped points. ... http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2007/03/01/debugging-formal-verification-problems-part-ii/ I was recently talking to couple of design engineers at various companies and most of them want to have push button RTL-Placed Gates or RTL-GDSII flows. Though this sounds like a reasonable expectation, but in reality as many experienced designers know, this is often not practical. The issue here is ... http://www.srikiran.net/blog/2007/03/01/push-button-design-flows/