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My First SVUnit Test Challenge

Let’s have some fun, shall we? I’m looking for people to show their commitment to hardware quality by taking the My First SVUnit Test Challenge. It’s easy and perfect for anyone new to SVUnit.

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Intel Agile and Lean Development Conference – Part 2

Great final day at the Intel Agile and Lean Development Conference. It started with a keynote talk by Jim Tremlett of Rally, I had morning talk and an afternoon talk and filled in the rest of the time with hallway … Continue reading

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Intel Agile and Lean Development Conference – Part 1

So pretend you’ve dedicated about 5 years to something you believe in… I mean really believe in. At the beginning it seems like you’re the only person in on it (or 1 of 2 in my case considering Bryan was … Continue reading

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Commit to becoming a Hardware Craftsperson

It’s my opinion that are are some very basic techniques that create great value, and should be re-stated and reinforced as good practices from time to time. I also contend that they are strongly related to agile methodologies that we’re … Continue reading

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Hammock Driven Design

I’ve been learning Clojure over the past few months. But that’s only slightly relevant to this post. As part of my learning process, I’ve been listening to recorded lectures from several Clojure conferences. There was one lecture by by Rich Hickey (creator of the … Continue reading

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An Adherent Responds to the Heretic

About a year ago, Mike Thompson said that as much as he liked what Neil and I were doing with the AgileSoC, he just didn’t think the agile methodologies fit all that well with hardware. He then said that he … Continue reading

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Definition of Ready

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of having lunch with Alan Dunne from Alcatel-Lucent here in Ottawa.  Alan has commented on a couple of our AgileSoC blog posts in the past, and is a shining example of someone … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

All the best to you and yours for 2012. Neil and I want to wish everyone following AgileSoC a very Happy New Year! AgileSoC has grown tremendously over the past year, and we’ve received many appreciative and insightful comments about … Continue reading

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TDD for RTL

In this (very late) post, I attempt a look at why RTL designers should use Test Driven Development (TDD) to create each of their modules. For this topic espeically, I’d like to hear your experiences with TDD, whether you think TDD … Continue reading

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TDD: Verification with SVUnit

Introduction In my last posting, I gave a brief overivew of the SVUnit framework, and it’s usage model. This post will look at how to use this framework in your workflow: how it can be integrated into your existing verification … Continue reading

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