The Newbie’s Guide To AgileSoC.com

For anyone that’s new to AgileSoC.com, here’s a guide to what we have. I have all the top ranked articles here. I also have my favorites… these articles aren’t necessarily the most popular but they’re the ones that I’m happiest with. Finally, a couple of sleeper articles.

…and don’t forget to follow the discussions on the linkedin group!

Top Ranked

  1. UVM Is Not A Methodology: This one is top ranked by a mile. Primarily for the verification engineers out there, this article discusses what teams need to keep in mind when adopting technology like UVM.
  2. Top-down ESL Design With Kanban: This article came together as I was reading 2 different books (ESL Models and their Applications (1st edition) and Kanban and Scrum: Making the Most of Both). It combines the modified V approach to system development that Brian Bailey and Grant Martin present and Kanban, which Bryan Morris and I have always thought as being hardware friendly.
  3. An Agile Approach To ESL Modeling: This is a general article for the ESL crowd. Why is modeling important, how modeling can fail and how agile can help modeling teams succeed.
  4. Agile IC Development With Scrum – Part I: the first of a two part video of the paper Bryan and I presented at SNUG San Jose in 2010. In the video, we talk about how hardware teams would have to evolve to adopt Scrum.
  5. IC Development And The Agile Manifesto: The Agile Manifesto spells out the fundamentals of agile development. This article shows how the manifesto is just as applicable to hardware development as it has been to software development.

My Favorites

  1. Operation Basic Sanity: A Faster Way To Sane Hardware: agile makes sense to a lot of people but getting started can be tricky to say the least. I like this article because it gives news teams a way to get started without changing much of what they already do.
  2. Top-down ESL Design With Kanban: top ranked on the site and also one of my favorites.
  3. Agile Transformation In Functional Verification – Part I: I think this is another good article that helps verification teams take the mental leap into agile development.

Sleeper Articles

  1. Realizing EDA360 With Agile Development: If you’re not into the EDA360 message from Cadence, then the title might scare you away. But this isn’t just more EDA360. The theme here is convergence in hardware development, how functional teams drift apart over time and how agile can bring them back together.
  2. Why Agile Is A Good Fit For ASIC and FPGA Development: I think this was the first article we posted. I go back to it periodically just to see if our early writing still makes sense. I think it does!

Neil

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