“But there were no tests of the PAL foam itself at the speeds, pressures or vibrations of ascent.” “'…at some point you've got to say, 'Wow, maybe the critics who say this is a really flawed design ...

But even today, some designs don't require top-down methodology or bottom-up verification. Examples include simple analog designs or designs with no feedback between the analog and digital sections.

Debugging is definitely an art but, there are many brushes that can be used when painting an application. This book takes a look at three of the most used alternatives in embedded applications. These ...

Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

Design verification has been the biggest challenge for any IC design company for decades now. EDA tools and verification methods have evolved a lot over the last two decades, but along with that, the ...

Programming is a constant game of mental Jenga: one line of code stacked upon another, building a tower of code you hope is robust enough not to come crashing down. But it always does, as code never ...