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  For those uninitiated with the DITL, here is a quick 101 on DITL: – what do you do on a typical day? That’s your Day-in-The-Life   Now to relate it to our VoW blog ( www.cvcblr.com/blog ), here is how a DITL for verification could be nicely defined, thanks to Dave Fechser of LSI, read his excellent article on Design Specification Requirements with Verification in Mind at: http://bit.ly/J6Jswr We at CVC follow this DITL model a lot during our training sessions especially for fresh graduates (See: http://goo.gl/aU8k2 for a PPT and download the contents from: http://www.cvcblr.com/trng_profiles/CVC_EIC_profile.pdf ) Earlier this week, Simon Segars, EVP & GM Processor and Physical IP Divisions ( www.linkedin.com/pub/simon-segars/2/2a0/556 ) presented an excellent keynote at an invite-only, executive dinner event around the CDNLive India 2012 http://bit.ly/TxallC organized by Cadence. His theme was around the low power requirements in modern mobile devices ...

Earlier this week, Simon Segars, EVP & GM Processor and Physical IP Divisions ( www.linkedin.com/pub/simon-segars/2/2a0/556 ) presented an excellent keynote at an invite-only, executive dinner event around the CDNLive India 2012 http://bit.ly/TxallC organized by Cadence. His theme was around the low power requirements in modern mobile devices (understandably, as the market needs this topic and who is in a better position than ARM can talk about this – being at the center of most of those smartphones!) One of the most interesting parts of his keyonte was the smartphone market segmentation he showed. IIRC (If I Remember Correctly), this was  Gartner backed market estimates/data on how the smartphone market is evolving in the near future. While several enthusiasts around the world are going gangnam about the new iPhone5 which is a high-end smartphone,                     He show...

Earlier this week, Simon Segars, EVP & GM Processor and Physical IP Divisions ( http://linkd.in/ThbmbZ ) presented an excellent keynote at an invite-only, executive dinner event around the CDNLive India 2012 http://bit.ly/TxallC organized by Cadence. Our CTO Srini ( http://linkd.in/e6cSbd ) His theme was around the low power requirements in modern mobile devices (understandably, as the market needs this topic and who is in a better position than ARM can talk about this – being at the center of most of those smartphones!) In a well drafted, upto-the-point, picture-centric presentation Simon did a great job of explaining what ARM’s big.LIITLE architecture is all about! As of today, ARM provides Cortex A-15 like cores for the high-end devices:   Quickly ARM realized there is a strong need for low-energy, low-cost cores too to serve the entry level smartphones – here comes the ARM Cortex A-7   Now with lot of data mining and analysis Simon showed a typical...