Bernard Murphy

This is the story of a city. The Heart Mountain Relocation Center, located in northwest Wyoming, was one of ten Japanese-American internment camps built by government in the summer of 1942 to hold persons of Japanese ancestry forceably removed from the West Coast during WWII in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Constructed in just 60 days, it became the third-largest city in Wyoming at the time. Japanese evacuees were interned there from August 1942, until November 1945, when the last of its residents left to resume their interrupted lives. This book details the planning, construction, and services that were developed to house 11,000 people. It's the story of the physical as well as the social infrastructure that the internees created for themselves: schools, shops, a newspaper, hospital, fire department, and a system of self-government. While others have written about the people who were interned in Japanese relocation centers during WWII, this is the story of one of the camps, told by two brothers who lived there.

People aren’t looking for an explanation, they want to hear a story. We’ve all survived PowerPoint presentations that feel more like hostage dramas; the only thing worse is when you realize that you are the hostage-taker. Standing at the front of the room, slogging through your carefully prepared slides, realizing that nobody is captivated, many are looking down at their phones, and your message is slipping into the void. In The Tell-Tale Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and tech blogger Bernard Murphy goes straight to the heart of why so many brilliant businesspeople, particularly in the tech and engineering fields, find it so hard to communicate effectively with prospects, with clients, even within their own organizations. In each chapter, he tells a real business story and explores the fundamental key to effective communication to engage real people—their intellects and emotions—through storytelling. You’ll discover: •The essential elements of effective, memorable stories •The strategies to employ to strengthen the stories you tell •The journey from startup to exit, with critical stories at every step •The essential story—the story you tell yourself We all long to push forward, particularly in tech, but with this humorous and personal exploration of how we can reconnect with our inner storyteller, Bernard reminds us that sometimes it’s worth taking a look back to unearth the timeless truths about how humans find connection.

There are already many books on formal verification, from academic to application-centric, and from tutorials for beginners to guides for advanced users. Many are excellent for their intended purpose; we recommend a few at the end of this book. But most start from the assumption that you have already committed to becoming a hands-on expert (or in some cases that you already are an expert). We feel that detailed tutorials are not the easiest place to extract the introductory view many of us are looking for - background, a general idea of how methods work, applications and how formal verification is managed in the overall verification objective. Since we're writing for a fairly wide audience, we cover some topics that some of you may consider elementary (why verification is hard), some we hope will be of general interest (elementary understanding of the technology) and others that may not immediately interest some readers (setting up a formal verification team). What we intentionally do not cover at all is how to become a hands-on expert.

When you turn the key in a modern car, you set in motion a chain of electronic events more complex, in some cases, than you'll find in a Boeing 787 or an F22 jet-fighter. The magic that makes this possible is captured in the many System-on-Chip (SoC) devices and software you'll find buried around the car. Leveraging many of the concepts at the heart of your smartphone, each of these SoC devices is itself very complex and must be validated extensively before manufacturing, to prove that it will always operate correctly and safely. Traditional methods used in validation, primarily simulation, are still widely used but are simply too slow to allow for the exhaustive levels of testing required to have high confidence in validation. This need has driven the semiconductor support industry to create special-purpose emulation engines to massively accelerate the SoC verification task. This book, targeted to general readers in the semiconductor and systems industry, describes the origins of SoC emulation and different approaches to addressing the need. It also describes some of the newer applications for emulation in SoC design. To illustrate current usage the second part of the book discusses how SoC emulation can be applied to verifying a controller for the solid-state drive (SSD) data storage now found in many modern devices.