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Microsoft CDNLive Keynote: Cloudy with a Chance of Chips
Traditionally at CDNLive Silicon Valley, the first keynote is given by Lip-Bu Tan, Cadence's CEO. Then an external presenter speaks, usually a customer. And then we announce something new. This year,...
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Growth Comes from Solving New Problems—ESD Alliance CEO Panel
First, some sad news. Bob Gardner, for many years the executive director of the ESD Alliance (although then called EDAC) passed away on April 11. I didn't know him that well, mostly as the guy running...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Von Neumann's 5 Bottlenecks and CCIX - Part 1
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett traces the evolution of the von Neumann computer architecture through a series of adaptations intended to bypass processing bottlenecks that...
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Vision C5 DSP for Standalone Neural Network Processing
I pointed out recently that although La La Land is a romance, the movie opens with cars. The semiconductor industry is like that, too—no matter which way you turn it is automotive. It may not show yet...
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Virtuosity: The Reboot
It’s been quite a while since I wrote about “Things I Learned by Browsing Cadence Online Support”. That absolutely does not mean that I haven’t learned anything recently by browsing Cadence Online...
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Designing for Low Power… Begin at the Beginning
So you have your RTL written, and it’s time to optimize to reduce power. If that’s your plan, you are likely leaving power on the table. It’s not that you can’t get a lot of savings with existing RTL...
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Test Flying Pegasus
Scott Barric of MicroSemi is one of the people who have been using the pre-release version of Pegasus, the new physical verification solution that Cadence announced at CDNLive Silicon Valley. See...
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Putting the "Vision" in Visionary: Embedded Vision Summit 2017
I loved the first day of the Embedded Vision Summit, held in Santa Clara today. Specifically focusing on the vision side of Lip-Bu’s “ machinelearningdeeplearning ”, this conference was a presentation...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays – Introduction to Cadence Tensilica Vision C5 DSP
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pulin Desai describes the main features of the Vision C5 DSP, the first standalone Neural Network DSP IP, and how it is positioned with the rest of the...
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Bayern München Will Not Be at CDNLive Munich: Here's What They Will Miss
Yes, it's true. After attending CDNLive EMEA for the last couple of years, Bayern München will not be there this year. Real Madrid eliminated them from the Champions League on April 18 (it was close,...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 8th to 12th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from NASA Ames Research Center, Sunnyvale Monday: NASA: "Never have another accident due to our organizational flaws." Tuesday: Soft Error Rate in...
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UVM Is Now IEEE 1800.2 and There's a Ten-Year Story to That
UVM, the Universal Verification Methodology, just became IEEE 1800.2-2017. I wondered if that was significant or not, and I knew just the person to ask. Not only that, his office is about ten feet from...
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Six Degrees of Freedom: Embedded Vision Summit 2017, Pt. II
Embedded Vision Summit 2017 is now over, and my notebook is full to overflowing with notes and my phone is full of bad photos of amazing content. If I had to pick one adjective to describe the show, it...
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Six Degrees of Freedom: Embedded Vision Summit 2017, Pt. II
Embedded Vision Summit 2017 is now over, and my notebook is full to overflowing with notes and my phone is full of bad photos of amazing content. If I had to pick one adjective to describe the show, it...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: How Can I Plot or Evaluate with the New Expression...
Indeed, the new Expression Builder has made expression creation much easier, but are you still wishing for some more enhancements and handy features available right under it? Would it make working with...
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TSMC @ N7 with Cadence
One presentation at the recent CDNLive Silicon Valley was about using Cadence tools to design products on TSMC's N7 process (7nm). It was standing room only, even after moving to a bigger room. The...
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Elementary, My Dear Monkeybrain
“Intuitions are not to be ignored, John. They represent data processed too fast for the conscious mind to comprehend.” “… No human action is ever truly random. An advanced grasp of the mathematics of...
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NASA: "Never Have Another Accident Due to Our Organizational Flaws"
The keynote at the IRPS reliability conference I attended was by Nancy Currie-Gregg. Today she works at the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, but she has been on four space shuttle missions to Hubble...
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Soft Error Rates in Satellites and Cars
Space turns out to be an interesting area for semiconductors, especially looking at the soft error rate (SER), which are glitches, known as single event effects (SEE) or single event upsets (SEU),...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - CNN Challenges: Compute Requirement
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Megha Daga takes a deep dive into compute requirements, one of the biggest challenges in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and some ideas on how to handle...
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