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General references
"All Doulos courses I have attended have been excellent."
Martin Rhodes, Xilinx
"A very good introduction to a useful and, otherwise, confusing language."
G.Hanson, Xyratex
"There are lots of things that you would never try unless you come on a course like this."
Sandy H, BAE Systems
"Best I've come across...First Class. Can't say much more."
Graham Beal, BAE Systems
"This course provided a lot of learning for the time invested, would have saved me many false starts if I had taken it 2 years ago..."
Woody Meeker, Silicon Optix/Teranex
"The quality of Doulos courses has not changed since I did the VHDL course 2 years ago; up-to-date, excellent labs, good presenters, helpful teachers, great docs."
Peter Boxall, Xilinx
"An excellent course. Very instructive and comprehensive. I particularly liked the practical exercises."
Herlinde Turner, MBDA
"An excellent course which I will certainly recommend to all our Altera customers"
Tim Whitely, Impact Memec
"Great course! Excellent organisation, materials and content. Thorough coverage of topic - excellent labs and knowledgeable tutor."
Derek Beattie, Motorola, Geneva
"Excellent materials, very professional tuition, very nice training environment."
James McTigue, Tellabs, Republic of Ireland
"Very professional training"
Dominique Deprey, Alcatel
"Very impressed overall, course was challenging but expert help and advice was always available for those parts that were more difficult. I would highly recommend the course."
Alistair Livesey, formerly with Westinghouse Signals Ltd
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Course materials
"Very efficient & hands-on... high quality materials... excellent Instructor... Went above & beyond the program for the class... shared his tricks & suggestions... Overall, this is the best training I've attended."
Marina Fedotova, Mercury Computer Systems
"Lectures and workbooks were very effective.Lecturer has 'talent' to teach and to motivate... I enjoyed the learning!"
Matthias Wubben, Nokia Telecommunications, Germany
"Great course! Excellent organisation, materials and content. Thorough coverage of topic - excellent labs and knowledgeable tutor."
Derek Beattie, Motorola, Geneva
"This is a great book! You can learn more about PSL in 15 minutes with this book than in a week with all the other PSL documentation available!"
Robert Fredieu, VP of R&D, Assertive Design, USA
"Perfect. The Golden Reference Guide is very good and essential for design engineers"
Umur Akinci, Aselsan Inc, Ankara
"Literature is excellent - is easy to navigate and understand - excellent source of reference"
John Buckley, EMC, Republic of Ireland
"Excellent - the Golden Reference Guide will be invaluable."
Donal Campbell, Nortel NITEC, Belfast
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Course instructor
"Very efficient & hands-on... high quality materials... excellent Instructor... Went above & beyond the program for the class... shared his tricks & suggestions... Overall, this is the best training I've attended."
Marina Fedotova, Mercury Computer Systems
"... technically excellent and extremely professional. His contribution to the project has been of the greatest value, absolutely essential"
V. Convertino, Philips
"Lectures and workbooks were very effective.Lecturer has 'talent' to teach and to motivate... I enjoyed the learning!"
Matthias Wubben, Nokia Telecommunications, Germany
"Great course! Excellent organisation, materials and content. Thorough coverage of topic - excellent labs and knowledgeable tutor."
Derek Beattie, Motorola, Geneva
".really clear, easy to follow and fast at getting message across .very well thought out - forces you to make mistakes that will point out pertinent issues"
Genevieve Bartlett, Infineon
"The instructor was very knowledgeable of the latest features and improvements and paced the course extremely well."
Shalini Tater, Tandberg
"Instructor was extremely well informed and gave very precise and helpful answers when questioned."
Tony Scanlan, Analog Devices, Republic of Ireland
"Very impressed overall, course was challenging but expert help and advice was always available for those parts that were more difficult. I would highly recommend the course."
Alistair Livesey, formerly with Westinghouse Signals Ltd
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VHDL training references
"The Doulos Comprehensive VHDL course is a fantastic opportunity to learn a vast amount of information about VHDL from scratch. I really enjoyed the course and found it very useful even though I had no previous experience of VHDL."
Jonathan Horswill, Science & Technology Facilities Council
"The Doulos Comprehensive VHDL course gives a fantastic look into how VHDL can be used in practice and how to use the various programs needed."
David Ludriecus, Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems
"The Doulos Comprehensive VHDL course is technically very informative - good pace, and it does what it says on the tin."
Mukesh Patel, Science & Technology Facilities Council
"The Doulos Expert VHDL Design course is a very good training class which I can unreservedly recommend. Anyone involved in VHDL design would benefit from this course."
Eddy Scorer, Utra Electronics Ocean Systems Weymouth
"I needed a quick refresher on VHDL for an upcoming project and your VHDL Pacemaker download provided excellent information to make my job easier. I was highly impressed with the quality of the presentation. Thank you......"
Mike Andrews MSEE, PE Andrews & Associates Engineering, Inc.
"A very professional, organised and friendly course which had an excellent balance between lectures and labs. The notes and reference book will provide an invaluable source of information for future VHDL work."
Alan Sillito, Philips Semiconductors, Zurich
"Very good detailed information, very useful VHDL reference guide, the PaceMaker tours/guides are very useful to get an overview."
Matthias Herrlein, EBV Elektronik, Germany
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SystemC training references
"I would recommend the Doulos Comprehensive SystemC course - good technical overview, competantly given and well structured."
Phil Barnard, Arc International
"The Doulos Comprehensive SystemC training class is a very good course for people who want to start using SystemC."
Jian Wu, University of Manchester
"The Doulos Comprehensive SystemC course is a great way to learn a complex subject in only a few days."
Jeremy Sonander, Saros Technology
"I can recomment the Doulos Expert SystemC training because its presentation material matches the workbook and has a good balance of exercises to work through."
Bob Warren, STMicroelectronics
"I can recommend the Doulos Expert SystemC training because of its good material and knowledgeable trainers."
Emile Belanger, STMicroelectronics
"The Doulos Expert SystemC training material is very good and presented by knowledgeable instructors."
Andrew Lindsay, STMicroelectronics
"From my own view of their training and reference material and my direct interaction with their people, Doulos are clearly doing a great job in enabling engineers to get geared up with SystemC and SCV."
Stuart Swan, Senior Architect, Cadence Design Systems, Inc
"One of the best courses I've ever attended. Not a vendor tool presentation! The course leaders background in both HW Design and SW engineering is a key to enable him to pass on the key concepts of SystemC"
Gernot Babin, Infineon
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SystemVerilog training references
"I would recommend Doulos's SystemVerilog training, because it does exactly what it says on the tin."
Robert Openshaw, Broadcom Cambridge
"The Doulos Comprehensive SystemVerilog course gives a good building block to develop further skills."
Scott Kennedy, Intel
"The Doulos SystemVerilog instructor was excellent - he showed depth of knowledge and experience to back it up."
Stephen Pickles, Atmel Smartcard ICs
"The Comprehensive SystemVerilog course is a good starting point for engineers coming up to speed with SystemVerilog. I particularly liked the section on assertions."
Stephen Gourlay, Intel
"The Comprehensive SystemVerilog course was led by an excellent instructor who taught us SystemVerilog Fundamentals in a very clear and thorough way."
Yuval Margalit, Cadence Israel
"I feel that the Comprehensive SystemVerilog course enabled me to get upto speed very quickly - much easier than sitting down with a book on my own."
Anonymous
"Excellent trainer - incredibly comprehensive knowledge of SystemVerilog and all of the tools. Obviously enthusiastic about SystemVerilog and well informed on leading edge developments in the field."
Anonymous
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Other training references
"The Doulos Solutions Workshops and Golden Reference Guides are simply the very best introductions into system verification and system design using SystemC and/or SystemVerilog available today. In my case, I learned more from a couple of hours with Doulos than from any other vendor or material at DAC."
Jean Brouwers, Consultant
"Just wanted to say that I really appreciate your VHDL tutorial. While I have only covered the first 4 sections, this tutorial is clear, easy to understand and comprehensive. Thank you for free posting. Rick"
Richard L. Drolet, Capstone Technology, Sonora, California
" ..advanced features of Verilog.These add efficiency / flexibility to designs / verification which are invaluable. This course covers these details well."
Tom Luby, Zarlink
"Doulos have a really valuable PSL training course, and a great set of learning support materials including the PSL Golden Reference Guide. I would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone who needs to learn how to use PSL effectively."
Harry Foster, Accellera
"Gives good explanation of Perl from the basics up to very useful examples. Will definitely use the skills learned here in future."
Christopher Coull, Cadence, UK
"Very high standard. It is obvious that the lecturer has a unique insight into the use of Verilog, and a special gift of passing on this knowledge."
Flemming Baltsersen, Hagenuk Telecom, Denmark
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