Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.

Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software. The Logical Volume Manager is ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

There are multiple reasons for design partitioning. One is complexity, because it’s faster and simpler to divide and conquer, particularly with third-party IP. A second reason involves power, where it ...

Is there a way to set things up so that two or more physical HDDs can share a mount point; i.e. if I have a 15Gig drive mounted to /home, can I add another HDD (of any size) and have it also mounted ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

With rising SoC design complexity, hierarchical backend design closure has become almost ubiquitous across the industry. Block and sub-block partitioning allow designers to exploit engineering and ...