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On CoresMeditations on the semiconductor and IP industries By Warren Savage, CEO, IPextreme |
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Tuesday Sep. 18, 2007 It's like Déjà vu all over again Many of my friends in the U.K. and Europe won’t appreciate an American sports legend, Yogi Berra. But Berra was a solid catcher for the New York Yankees during their golden days of the 1950’s. But Yogi is most famous for his “Berra-isms”, his unusual knack for mangling the English language in his own brand of folksy wisdom. Impossible to describe, so here are some examples: • “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” • “You can observe a lot by watching.” • “If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.” • “Ninety percent of the game is half mental.” Continue reading "It's like Déjà vu all over again" »
Posted by Warren Savage on Tuesday Sep. 18, 2007 | Add a Comment Tuesday Sep. 04, 2007 Black Swans on IP Lake The debate on the future to the IP market rages on with dozens of Letters to the Editor protesting Mark Lapedus’ controversial opinion piece (Semi IP is a lost Cause) last month. I’ve just returned from Japan and had the fortune to pick up a great, thought provoking book called “Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A Black Swan is defined as a rare event with three very special characteristics: 1) It is not predicted, 2) it has massive consequences usually on a global scale, and 3) in retrospect people invariable claim that they could have predicted it if they had been paying attention. Examples of Black Swans are 9/11, the Netscape IPO, and the stock crash of October 1987. 
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Posted by Warren Savage on Tuesday Sep. 04, 2007 | Comments (1) | Add a Comment Wednesday Aug. 22, 2007 Cindarella stood up at the System Verilog Ball As I've written in this column before, a key impediment to System Verilog's application as a IP design language is uniform support across the major EDA players. Without a consistent set of implemented features and tested interoperability, IP design with System Verilog is too risky. A significant step in System Verilog's maturity happened last week with the announcement that Cadence and Mentor have teamed to work together to develop the Open Verification Methodology around System Verilog. Bravo! With this move, the odds of System Verilog IP working across platform dramatically improve. Continue reading "Cindarella stood up at the System Verilog Ball" »
Posted by Warren Savage on Wednesday Aug. 22, 2007 | Add a Comment Monday Aug. 13, 2007 News of our Death Greatly Exaggated On behalf of the IP industry, I’m happy to paraphrase Mark Twain in that the news of our death as been greatly exaggerated. Mark LaPedus of EETimes last week made a few provocative statements in his column last week Semi IP Sector is a Lost Cause calling the semiconductor IP sector a “non-profit business” and posted a follow-up challenge to companies to challenge his conclusion Letter to Semi IP vendors adding that it would be probably a better use of his time to improve his golf game than to write about the IP market. Continue reading "News of our Death Greatly Exaggated" »
Posted by Warren Savage on Monday Aug. 13, 2007 | Add a Comment Friday Jul. 27, 2007 VSIA goes out with a whimper The Virtual Socket Industry Alliance (VSIA) announced on July 10 that it was closing operations. In the article Electronics standards group VSIA to close, many of the initiatives incubated by the VSIA are now looking for homes in other standards organizations like IEEE and The Spirit Consortium. It’s a sad, closing chapter to a well-intentioned concept that never found a constituency. Continue reading "VSIA goes out with a whimper" »
Posted by Warren Savage on Friday Jul. 27, 2007 | Add a Comment |
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Warren Savage, President and CEO of IPextreme, is a well-known and published authority in the field of semiconductor intellectual property.
He has a long history of pushing the envelope of design methodology from his work in fault tolerant computing at Tandem Computers in the 1980's and driving reliable design metholologies into commercial practice at Synopsys for its DesignWare IP product in the 1990s.
Much of his thinking became embodied in the seminal book on IP reuse, the Reuse Methodology Manual. Warren is taking his vision to the next level with his latest company, IPextreme, which is focused on enabling broad commercialization of IP captive in large semiconductor companies.
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