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Are General-Purpose Microprocessors Over?
There is apparently a rule of thumb among journalists that when the headline of an article asks a yes/no question, the answer is always 'no'. Well, of course microprocessors are not over, so the answer...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 15th to 19th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Jing'an Park, Shanghai, China Monday: CDNLive Tensilica Announcement Tuesday: CDNLive Munich Press Conference Wednesday: CDNLive Munich 1...
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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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RISC-V 6th Workshop 上海
The 6th RISC-V workshop was held in early May. It was the first one in Asia, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and was co-sponsored by the University and by NVIDIA. Why NVIDIA? Partly because they have...
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Virtuosity: What's New in analogLib
It's been a while since analogLib was updated, so we decided to pay some attention to some long standing and popular requests in the recent ISRs! S-Parameter File Parameterization In IC6.1.7 ISR6, the...
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FD-SOI State of the Union: There's Supply—Is There Demand?
I went to the annual SOI Silicon Valley Symposium recently. As last year, they had to close registration because the room was full. To see what I wrote last year, see FD-SOI: Is It Really a Thing? and...
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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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The New Tensilica Fusion P6
Only last week, in Are General Purpose Microprocessors Over? I wrote about how general purpose processors are never going to get any faster and so the system architecture of the future will consist of...
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Translate THIS!
You know how on your Facebook feed, there is a “Memories” feature, where it reminds you of posts from previous years? A couple of things from last year rolled up on my feed today: I said: Voice...
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JasperGold: Stepping up to RTL Signoff
When I was on my last tour of duty at Cadence in the early 2000s, we had a late afternoon seminar series. One of the speakers was Edsger Dijkstra. He was a legend in computer science, one of the...
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7 Habits of Highly Successful S-Parameters: How to Simulate Those Pesky...
Hello Spectre Users, Simulating S-parameters in a time domain (transient, periodic steady state) simulator has been and continues to be a challenge for many analog and RF designers. I'm often asked:...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Fusion G6 DSP with Applications to Radar Signal...
In this week's whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pushkar Patwardhan gives an overview of the ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) features of the Tensilica Fusion G6 DSP, which is a new DSP in the Fusion G...
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CDNLive Munich Ein
Every CDNLive has a little bit of a different structure. In Munich, we start with Monday lunch, giving people the opportunity to fly in from other parts of Europe. The first day is has presentations,...
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Life, the Universe, and Everything: A Follow-Up
I was thinking more about my post from the other day ( Translate THIS ), and the fact (or is it a fact?) that if everything were a function of everything else, how would you write … well, everything in...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays – Tensilica Fusion G6 DSP Takes on Automotive ADAS...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pushkar Patwardhan gives an overview of the instruction set architecture (ISA) and features of the Tensilica Fusion G6 DSP, a new DSP in the Fusion G DSP...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 22nd to 26th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Marienplatz, Munich, Germany Monday: 50 Years of Architecture (the first 20 years) Tuesday: 50 Years of Architecture (the last 30 years)...
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CDNLive EMEA Zwei
This is the second post about CDNLive EMEA in Munich. If the topics I selected to write about seem to cover a big range, that is because CDNLive covers a big range. I can only write about sessions I...
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Schrödinger’s Teapot: To Sum It Up...
If a watched pot doesn't boil, and you don't know if someone else is watching your teapot, you can only determine whether it’s boiling by pouring it out. Also: A teapot may or may not exist and may or...
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Virtuosity: Is it Possible to Create a Bus on Several Metal Layers...
Routing Multiple Nets on Different Metal Layers to Gain Productivity Have you ever found yourself in a situation where all the wire segments in a bus are on different metal layers? Did you ever think...
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Dream Chip: A Vision for Your Car
Dream Chip is a company based in Germany just outside Hamburg. Martin Zeller presented at CDNLive Silicon Valley on A New Computer Vision Processor Chip Design for Automotive ADAS CNN Applications in...
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