DAFCA Appoints Stockton Board Chairman, Names Coplien Object Architect.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. Industry Veteran John Stockton This article is about the professional basketball player. For the U.S. Senator from New Jersey, see John P. Stockton. John Houston Stockton (born March 26, 1962) is a retired American professional basketball player who spent his entire career (1984–2003) as a Accepts Chairman Post; Jim Coplien Jim Coplien is a writer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of Computer Science. He has made key contributions in the areas software design and organizational development, software debugging, and in empirical research. is a World Renowned Leader of the Agile Software Movement DAFCA Inc., a provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and intellectual property (IP) that enable rapid silicon debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. and accelerate time-to-volume of sophisticated SoCs, today announced that John Stockton has been named Chairman of DAFCA's Board of Directors, and that Jim Coplien has joined the company as Object Architect. These leadership appointments will further strengthen the company's market position, and ensure that its software foundation will be scalable, extensible, and portable across a wide variety of applications and platforms. John Stockton is a Leader in Semiconductor Technology and Commerce John Stockton, a VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. Fellow who was instrumental in the creation of ARM Holdings plc, was a founding member of the board at DAFCA. A veteran of Motorola Semiconductors, Stockton has been a prolific inventor and effective leader in all aspects of semiconductor design, processing, test, and technology transfer. "John's endorsement and commitment were a key element in our decision to lead the investment in DAFCA," said Mike O'Neill Mike O'Neill is the name of:
Jim Coplien "Wrote the Book" on C++ Design Coplien is best known for the 1991 book that shaped a generation of C++ programmers, Advanced C++. He was one of the founders of the Software Pattern discipline in 1993, and he has been helping that community deepen and extend its understanding of software architecture ever since. His early work on organizational analyses and organizational patterns are widely heralded as foundations of the contemporary Agile Software Development Methodologies for designing software that have proven to be more effective in dealing with business realities such as changing requirements during development. It promotes industry best practices that emphasize teamwork, customer involvement and the frequent creation of small, working movement, a reputation that was cemented by his most recent work, Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development, which has become the definitive reference for Agile development See agile software development. . Coplien also brings hardware debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. expertise to DAFCA. He is the creator of ISHMAEL, a circuit debugging environment that launched the evolution of hardware simulation and of hardware/software co-development at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Coplien's authoritative knowledge of object orientation greatly enriches DAFCA's software design capability. "The most serious impediment to growth in EDA - beyond algorithms, beyond technology nodes, beyond complexity - is that the software is as friendly as a plate of stale pasta," explained DAFCA CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Peter Levin. "We have an embarrassment of rich technology in practically every aspect of modeling and design, but the community is sucking innovation through a straw because we don't have a sensible way of integrating it into our existing design methodologies and flows. What's worse is that the customers are losing productivity gains from applications that are brittle and notoriously unstable. Having a person like Jim Coplien 'lay on the hands' of sensible design and implementation is not just an enormous endorsement for DAFCA, it is a huge benefit to the industry." About DAFCA DAFCA is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company developing a product suite for the creation of flexible Systems-on-Chip (SoC) solutions, which results in faster time-to-market and lowers chip development costs. The first supported applications for the DAFCA technology are silicon debug, error corrections, and ECOs. This unique technology enables chip designers to rapidly achieve working silicon and significantly reduces the time-to-market of their devices. Learn more about the company by visiting their web site at http://www.dafca.com. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion