Agile software development methods have been adapted to and applied in a number of other areas. ASIC/FPGA development, however, with its big bang development and delivery model is an area where agile is strangely absent. This talk examines how agile methods in the following areas may be used to gradually displace the big bang model: * feature based, incremental development * early/sustained collaboration between design, test, modeling and embedded software experts * regular retrospectives Included are ideas for how agile may best be introduced to hardware teams.
http://submit2011.agilealliance.org/files/session_pdfs/applying agile to ic development.pdf
