Optic2Connect develops software for photonics!

Optic2Connect will be present at this year’s DAC. I caught up with Sean Seah, project manager, to find out more. First, what’s the company’s X factor and why? (What is it that makes your offering special and noteworthy – how are you different from competitors)? Optic2Connect develops software solutions for the photonics industry. The demand

Embedded software: Next revolution in EDA

There is a key lesson that Mentor Graphics made while trying to deliver solutions that were right for software and hardware developers. The lesson was: tailor the software to the discipline! Make it as similar to their environment as possible!! Delivering his speech at the ongoing 13th Global Electronics Summit in Santa Cruz, USA, Dr.

Now, there is EDA software piracy!

Great! That’s what was required!! As though software piracy isn’t enough, there is now an article about EDA software piracy!!! According to the article, the anti-piracy committee of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) estimates that 30-40 percent of all EDA software use is via pirated licenses. That’s a huge number! What are the chief

Study on semiconductor design, embedded software and services industry in India

The India Semiconductor Association (ISA) has released a study on semiconductor design, embedded software and services industry, along with Ernst & Young. According to the report, the key challenges constraining the growth of the semiconductor design industry are summarized under five major issues: i) Quality, availability and maturity of talent. ii) Absence of a startup

Novel software architecture for multi-core SoCs

According to Patrick Maccartee, director of product management and James Ready, CTO, Monta Vista, Monta Vista virtualization can be realized. The benefits to developers are clear in terms of lowered complexity, flexibility in development, high performance, first Linux configured for dataplane performance. These were the conclusions from the seminar, where  I was an invited audience,  on

Context-aware traffic mediation software could help telcos manage data tsunami: Openwave

Given the rising (and no end in sight) surge  in demand for mobile content and data services, mobile network service providers are facing the challenge of effectively managing exponential growth in data traffic. Service providers must also find ways to maximize bandwidth without sacrificing end user experience. In conjunction with the Mobile Marketing Association Forum

BSA to help Karnataka PSUs manage software efficiently via SAM

Ever wondered why you are unable to update your anti-virus software? Chances are that you are running a pirated version of the Windows OS! That itself opens your system and network up to cyber threats and other attacks! Yes, I know! Prices of software, at least the relevant ones, aren’t that low! However, you don’t have much

Round-up 2009: Best of EDA, embedded systems and software, design trends

Friends, the next installment in this series on the round-up of 2009 lists my top posts across three specific fields that are very important within the semiconductor industry — electronic design automation (EDA), embedded systems and software, and some design trends. Here you go! EDA Synopsys on Discovery 2009, VCS2009 and CustomSIM State of global

ISA Vision Summit 2009: Growing influence of embedded software on hardware world

This session on day 1 of the recently held ISA Vision Summit had a good mix of speakers. Moderated by Anil Gupta, managing director, ARM India, the speakers included V.R. Venkatesh, Senior Vice President, Product Engineering Services, Wipro Technologies, Kishor Patil, MD & CEO, KPIT Cummins, and Raju Pudota, MD, Denali Software. This is a

Indian software developers, here’s your chance to win US $25,000!

This piece was information was sent to me by a friend, Ms Tahira Amjad. Thanks a lot! Skyway Software is a US-based software development company that provides technology and processes to IT organizations to simplify their software delivery systems, often reducing application development and deployment schedules by 30 percent or more. The company’s flagship product,