Best of the Web: October 19th 2012

Best of the Web: October 19th 2012: This is a consolidated view of the best things that other people have writte...

This is a consolidated view of the best things that other people have written on the web over the past week that are about EDA and IP, with an emphasis on the interesting and technical rather than on products and marketing. Please let me know if you have something you would like to see included. I have also added a section about blogs within the UBM family as well so that the list is more complete. My favorite for the week is: Dennis Brophy at Mentor tells about a fashion makeover in Portland including “Verification Academy 2.0 ”. How can he claim that Paris or Milan are more fashionable than Portland! I guess Dennis is just not a Portland fashion kind of guy! From around the network: In the EDA Designline, Steve Schulz talks about “Silicon photonics is hot -- at Si2 ” and rebuts Rick Merritt who says that OpenFlow is not likely to gain traction. And some other great entri...

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