Industry Expert Blogs
Why Is It Always "Someone Else's Problem"?EETimes Blog - Gadge Panesar, CTO, UltraSoCOct. 15, 2015 |
Anyone who's worked in chip industry will have listened to the hardware guys blaming a software problem, only to cross the room and find that the software guys are convinced that "the problem's in the hardware."
We’re always hearing that innovation is a team sport. Nowhere is this more the case than in today’s semiconductor industry. Different teams and skill sets are required to architect the system, generate the RTL, perform place and route, implement the physical design, verify and debug both the logical and physical design and generate the software that runs on a typical core-based SoC.
You might think that in this environment, people would be used to taking collective responsibility for taping out a chip on time and to budget…