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Jeremy Bennett

ESL in the Future: The Impact of Open Source


This talk was given on 24 September 2009 at the National Microelectronics Institute meeting on Electronic System Level Design in Bristol, UK.


Introduction

You will notice I am not using any PowerPoint slides. Well I want to tell you a story, and for a story, words are better than pictures.

My story is about why SystemC was an important turning point for the EDA industry. Not for its technology, but because of the way that technology was made available. It was the first major st… Continue

Posted on September 24, 2009 at 2:00pm —

Jeremy Bennett

Open Source for Hardware?

Open source is well established as a business model in the software world. Red Hat is now approaching the market capitalization of Sun Microsystems, while IBM, the worlds largest patent holder, makes more money from open source than other software (source: BBC Radio 4 “In Business”). Major tools such as the Firefox web browser, the Apache web server and the Eclipse IDE are all open source.

But open source is more than just a business model. It is a change to the underlying approach to business.… Continue

Posted on May 1, 2009 at 2:00pm —

 
 
 

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