Digital Design/Verification
This metric measures what percentage of your RTL code has been exercised by your test suite.
What is code coverage?
Semtech's headquarters are located in this Southern California city, known for its beautiful beaches and proximity to Los Angeles
What is Camarillo?
This person invented the first Integrated Circuit.
Who is Jack Kilby? (Also accept Robert Noyce as he invented the first monolithic IC)
This HBO series about a chemistry teacher turned methamphetamine manufacturer won multiple Emmy awards and ended in 2013
What is Breaking Bad?
This Canadian coin features a polar bear
What is the toonie?
This common flip-flop configuration prevents metastability by using two registers in series
What is a synchronizer (or double-flop synchronizer)?
Semtech's PerSe technology is used in this product that Hong claimed at an all-hands that he personally owns and he purchased for many family members at Christmas
What are smart glasses?
This company's co-founder famously said "640K ought to be enough for anybody," though he later denied saying it
What is Microsoft (Bill Gates)?
This 2019 Marvel movie became the highest-grossing film of all time, featuring a final battle against Thanos
What is Avengers: Endgame?
This is the highest mountain in Canada.
What is Mount Logan?
The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) was derived primarily from this object-oriented methodology that had its origins in the e verification language developed by Verisity Design
What is OVM (Open Verification Methodology)
These are Semtech's four new core values.
What are 1) Customers and Quality 2) Innovation and Capability 3) Inspiring and Empowering and 4) Trust and Transparency
This principle, introduced by an Italian economist, states that 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. It is often applied in problem-solving and optimization
What is the Pareto Principle?
This Netflix series set in the 1980s features kids fighting supernatural creatures from the "Upside Down."
This Netflix series set in the 1980s features kids fighting supernatural creatures from the "Upside Down."
What is Stranger Things?
This is the oldest sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people. It is played professionally in both Canada and the US
What is lacrosse?
This factor which impacts the reliable operation of a sequential circuit is limited by the longest combinational path plus setup time
What is the maximum clock frequency?
Semtech was founded in 1960, but it first went public in this year.
What is 1967
"The Mother of All Demos" landmark computer demonstration by Douglas Engelbart that introduced the computer mouse, hypertext, and video conferencing to the public was introduced at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco in this year?
What is 1968?
This HBO fantasy series, based on George R.R. Martin's novels, concluded controversially in 2019 after eight seasons
What is Game of Thrones?
This comedy series about a small-town family won Emmy awards and became a global hit, created by Dan and Eugene Levy
What is Schitt's Creek?
This advanced verification technique uses mathematical proofs to exhaustively verify that a design property holds for all possible input combinations
What is formal verification?
This Semtech acquisition in 2018 added advanced chip-scale packaging, contract wafer bumping and related services to their portfolio
What is IC Interconnect (ICI)?
This engineering management principle states that work expands to fill the time available for its completion
What is Parkinson's Law?
This 2021 Netflix series about a chess prodigy became the most-watched limited series in Netflix history.
What is The Queen's Gambit?
This Canadian researcher won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in developing chirped pulse amplification for lasers.
Who is Donna Strickland?