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 what Neil and I are trying to do.

We look forward to 2012 — where our conversation with you about AgileSoC will continue to grow and develop.

Bryan & Neil

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 is an appropriate methodology for RTL, and if you’ve been following along with our TDD-month(-and-a-half), whether you agree with Neil’s and my position that TDD is a great addition to our ASIC/FPGA development toolbox.

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