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Bill Hugle and Frances Sarnat married in 1947 after each had earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Chicago. The two started a business making artificial gemstones in 1948, but the venture went bust by 1951 because of a patent infringement lawsuit brought against Bill Hugle by Linde Air Products, which had hired him as a plant chemist in 1947, just before he started his side business with … Read More → "The Semiconductor Company from Another World: The Siliconix Story, Part 2 – Starting the Optical Encoder Industry"

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Using Generative AI for Refactoring and Debugging Code Cuts Debugging Time in Half!

I am currently wearing my patent-pending puzzled and perplexed expression. This manly mien was handed down to me by my father when he determined he had no further use for it. It was the aspect he assumed when my mother requested him to undertake some chore around the house. Oftentimes, he managed to look so befuddled and bewildered that she ended up performing the task herself. I’ … Read More → "Using Generative AI for Refactoring and Debugging Code Cuts Debugging Time in Half!"

The Semiconductor Company That Came From Another World: the Siliconix Story, Part 1 – Starting With Star Sapphires

Starting in the 1940s, Bill Hugle and Frances Sarnat Hugle founded technology companies that drew them further and further into the semiconductor business. Together they kicked off the development of precision optical encoders, founded semiconductor makers Siliconix and Stewart-Warner Microcircuits, and developed semiconductor manufacturing equipment on both the east and west coasts of the US. Along the way, the couple endured many business reversals and enough legal … Read More → "The Semiconductor Company That Came From Another World: the Siliconix Story, Part 1 – Starting With Star Sapphires"

Calling All Software Developers! How CacheQ is Accelerating Code Across Heterogeneous Compute Platforms

In this week’s Fish Fry podcast, I investigate how you can shorten your development time and accelerate code across heterogeneous compute platforms with CacheQ Systems CEO Clay Johnson. Clay and I explore the benefits of heterogeneous compute development, the details of CacheQ’s QCC development platform and what sets CacheQ’s QCC development platform apart from open-source tools.

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Posted on May 9 at 12:10am by espent
Hi Max, Yes, Jim is correct. VHDL is in fact used in more than 50% of all FPGA projects, and the survey clearly shows that VHDL is also the leading HDL for FPGA verification. I would assume that verification methodologies/libraries like UVVM and OSVVM are contributing to the strong position ...
Posted on May 8 at 1:40pm by Max Maxfield
Hi Jim -- I'm up to my armpits in alligators at the moment but all things are possible for the future -- I'll also ask Espen if he would care to comment here
Posted on May 5 at 12:10pm by JimLewis
Hi Max, It would be interesting to revisit this article using the updated numbers from the 2022 Wilson Verification Survey (released in November). See: https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/verificationhorizons/2022/11/21/part-6-the-2022-wilson-research-group-functional-verification-study/ There you can see that FPGA is dominated by VHDL. You can also see that the survey has ...
Posted on May 5 at 9:43am by Max Maxfield
I thought my jokes were bad LOL
Posted on May 4 at 1:01pm by traneusee
Why do tomatoes and potatoes wear socks in the winter? To keep their toes warm.
Posted on May 4 at 11:04am by Max Maxfield
I can't believe it -- my chum Matt Pulzer in the UK just reminded me of a classic that will be great for the little girls next door: Question: What's brown and sticky? Answer: A stick!
Posted on Apr 26 at 1:19pm by SmithChart
NM Electronics -- now there is an excellent computer history trivia question! Article full of interesting details ... great work!
Posted on Apr 26 at 1:11pm by Steven Leibson
Microsystems International Ltd. (MIL) was a joint venture between the manufacturing arm of Bell Canada and the Canadian government. In 1970, MIL paid Intel $1.5 million to have Intel set up a semiconductor manufacturing line so that it could make a second-source copy of the Intel 1103 DRAM. This deal helped Intel in ...
Posted on Apr 26 at 6:54am by traneusee
Canadian company Microsystems International second-sourced the Intel 8008.
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