1 Algerian Dinar = 0.0127 New Zealand Dollar

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.0273 Israeli New Sheqel

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.002 New Taiwan Dollar

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0002 Papua New Guinean Kina

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0001 New Zealand Dollar

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0002 Israeli New Sheqel

1 Lithuanian Lita = 10.1109 New Taiwan Dollar

1 Lithuanian Lita = 1.1618 Papua New Guinean Kina

1 Lithuanian Lita = 0.5518 New Zealand Dollar

1 Lithuanian Lita = 1.1876 Israeli New Sheqel

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0766 New Taiwan Dollar

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0088 Papua New Guinean Kina

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0042 New Zealand Dollar

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.009 Israeli New Sheqel

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 1.1879 New Taiwan Dollar

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.1365 Papua New Guinean Kina

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.0648 New Zealand Dollar

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.1395 Israeli New Sheqel

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 4.3295 New Taiwan Dollar

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 0.4975 Papua New Guinean Kina

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 0.2363 New Zealand Dollar

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 0.5085 Israeli New Sheqel

1 Japanese Yen = 0.2799 New Taiwan Dollar

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0322 Papua New Guinean Kina

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0153 New Zealand Dollar

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0329 Israeli New Sheqel

The buzz about showing and paying for value in EDA has been building over the past few years. People have complained about the high cost of tools and EDA vendors have complained about not getting enough value from the technology that can then be re-invested in the next generation tools. The same complaints can be heard from the foundries regarding their wafer pricing

Companies have tried royalty-based models before in the past (e.g., $/wafer or even profit sharing). But it hasn't been sticky. Is the industry ready for a new model?  I think sharing in the upside and potential downside of a particular design from inception to volume is fair. But it also would mean that EDA companies and foundries would have to participate even earlier (and later) in the product lifecycle - from design spec/marketing through product introduction.

That's a pretty big change that goes beyond just the business model. But maybe at 32nm and below, where designs cost upwards of $75M to bring to market, this type of collaboration and risk/reward model is required and desired

I’m coming to the party late—last weekend, for the first but not the last time, I watched Manish Acharya’s comedy, Loins of Punjab Presents. Behan____, what a film! 

I will not rehearse the synopsis or plot, partly because of the lateness of the hour, but also because it is available here. Instead, let me note quickly that the comedy keeps ticking, and the attention to detail in all matters, from the plot to the casting, makes this film a pleasure to watch.

Let me use one scene to make a point about where the film is coming from. Ishitta Sharma, playing a demure, Gujju girl called Preeti Patel, is one of the competitors in the Desi Idol competition in New Jersey. We have watched her sing beautifully, and we have watched her stay silent, eyes downcast, as her family-members make fools of themselves. But there’s a moment later in the film, when an older, wily competitor, played with classy ease by Shabana Azmi, tries to manipulate her. And suddenly, in the blink of an eye, Preeti Patel turns upon the Shabana character. It’s as if she always had a dagger hiding in her hand.

When I saw that, I thought that there was a similar strength in the movie I was watching. It’s all laughs but it has a quicksilver intelligence within. It is a declaration of independence by the desi diaspora—and what is great is that it celebrates this freedom by mocking, and loving, almost everything in sight.

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Literate Indians should be familiar with Ashis Nandy’s remark: “Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.“ A Trinidadian Indian by the name of Chuck Ramkissoon, in Joseph O’Neill’s superbly inflected novel “Netherland”, is also fond of making bold pronouncements on the behalf of the game he wants to introduce to the U.S. “I’m saying that people, all people, Americans, whoever, are at their most civilized when they’re playing cricket. What’s the first thing that happens when Pakistan and India make peace? They play a cricket match…”

It’s now my turn to be bold: “Netherland” is more of an Indian novel than the recent, much feted, Indian fiction. This is not only because O’Neill’s novel feeds our national obsession with the game. Nor even its exquisite description of what transpires on the playing field: “…. where the white-clad ring of infielders, swanning figures on the vast oval, again and again converge in unison toward the batsman and again and again scatter back to their starting points, a repetition of pulmonary rhythm, as if the field breathed through its luminous visitors.” No. My pronouncement is based on the fact that the Indian characters in the book are highly individualized and yet fully global in their identity. “Netherland” is not a sociological-historical epic thesis, nor is it a shallow, cynical report on injustice in the hinterland. Rich in observation, reporting as much on the interior life as on the life outside, it is a captivating literary achievement. A masterpiece.

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