Some Recent Blogs and interesting sites

Verification Vertigo by Brian Bailey

Domeika’s Dilemma by Max Domeika

Taken for Granted by Grant Martin

ElectronicSystemLevel.com is a site dedicated to the use of the Electronic System Level of abstraction for the design and verification of complex electronic systems.

Industry Links

A few early background articles and other useful links:

Informaton and presentations from the Virtual Platforms Workshop at the 46th DAC 2009.

Open Virtual Platforms Heralds Start of New Era for Virtual Prototyping, Embedded Software Development Imperas Unleashes Open Source Initiative to Establish Common, Open Standard for Multicore SoC Design

Multiprocessing development is bigger challenge than software test, says poll Developing systems with multiple processors is a bigger challenge in embedded systems than software test and debug according to a poll of EE Times Europe readers.

Legacy software clogs chip design Electronicsweekly.com. Software re-use is leading to some horrendously clunky software being put into products, said executives at the Globalpress Summit conference in Monterey last week.

Confronting Parallelism: The View from Berkeley HPCWire. To explore the important new paper on the challenges of parallelism, “The View from Berkeley,” HPCwire talked with NERSC computer scientist John Shalf and David Patterson, professor of computer science at UC-Berkeley. Shalf and Patterson are among the co-authors of “The View from Berkeley.”

The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software Dr. Dobbs. The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency.