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One-on-One with Lip-Bu Tan
Monday was Lip-Bu's turn for a chat with Ed Sperling. The same event last year was billed as a "fireside chat" but was postponed for 15 minutes when a spotlight really did catch fire. Taking no...
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Verification at DAC17: Shall We Go to the Pantry or the Cookbook?
Tuesday, June 20, 2017, Austin Convention Center. Noon. I’m wilting in the heat. The temperature outside will get up to 95°F today, with 71% humidity. I’m such a delicate California flower, durn it;...
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China's IC Industry: Today and Tomorrow
Professor Wei Shaojun of Tsinghua University presented on China's IC Industry: Today and Tomorrow . As you probably know, in 2014 China announced plans to promote the development of the IC industry in...
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Single Core vs. Multi Core: Simulation in Stereo
Latency simulations are the sworn enemy of the verification schedule. A handful of tests add days to weeks for each regression cycle; and when you add in the fact that they can’t be parallelized like...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - 5 Unique Advantages of the Cadence IP Solution
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett explains five unique advantages of the Cadence IP solution. These advantages enable on-time delivery of high-quality IP and system expertise that...
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Table for 7—Lunch at the Leading Edge
On Tuesday, Cadence hosted a lunch focused on 7nm digital design and signoff. Jim Hogan was the moderator. The panel got to debate 7nm while everyone else got to eat lunch. For more details on 7nm,...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 3rd to 7th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany (camera me) Monday: The Kansas City Hyatt Puzzle Tuesday: The Kansas City Hyatt Solution...
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Virtuosity: Does Smart Software Need Help Assistants?
No, smart software doesn't need Help assistants. No one cares about Help assistants in smart software. What users of smart software, like Virtuoso, do care about is a Smart Help system—a Help system...
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Eating in Your Car—Mixed Signal Automotive Lunch
The Wednesday of DAC means the Cadence Mixed-Signal Lunch. For the Digital Lunch, see my post Table for 7—Lunch at the Leading Edge . The mixed-signal topic was Overcoming Mixed-Signal Design and...
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System in Package
At DAC, Dick James gave a fascinating presentation on system in package, or SiP, at the DAC pavilion. In fact, as a general statement, I have to say that the standard of presentations at the pavilion...
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The Kansas City Hyatt Walkway Collapse—A Puzzle
It is coming up to July 4 week. Cadence will be shut down and Breakfast Bytes will be on hiatus. On shutdowns like this, I traditionally find something that might well interest the sort of people who...
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The Kansas City Walkway Collapse—The Answer
Yesterday, I wrote about The Kansas City Hyatt Walkway Collapse . I showed a close up of the change made to the original design to make the construction simpler. To recap, in the picture below, to...
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Cadence Support—Your 24x7 Self-Help Partner
Today, there is always a universal demand for learning and troubleshooting easily and quickly. Most users of any product or tool want access to a self-service knowledge-base to be able to troubleshoot...
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Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? So How Does Your Design “Stack-Up”? (Reason...
We are not talking about how your design compares to the next guys’, we’re talking about the PCB layer structure of your design, be it rigid, flex, rigid-flex, or using inlay technology. Stackup...
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Virtuosity: How Can I Organize My Assistants and Toolbars?
Many things in Virtuoso can be customized, showing/hiding and configuring the layout of assistants and toolbars are no exception. They can be configured and saved as a workspace. It seems that this...
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Link to: 7 Habits of Highly Successful S-Parameters: How to Simulate Those...
Hi All, If you were unable to attend IMS 2017 in June 2017, the IMS MicroApp “7 Habits of Highly Successful S-Parameters” is on our Cadence website. On Cadence Online Support , the in-depth AppNote is...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 10th to 14th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from the Computer History Museum, Mountain View (camera Grace Wu) Monday: Triple Witching Hour for Automotive Tuesday: CactusNet: One Network to Rule...
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Triple Witching Hour for Automotive
In New York, there is an occasion four times a year known as the "triple witching hour." JK Rowling might have come up with the phrase, but, in fact, it is the last hour of trading on the third Friday...
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Trust in Leadership: It's Turtles All the Way Down
Since 2009, Cadence's CEO and leader has been Lip-Bu Tan. I haven’t had the opportunity sit down and talk with him since joining Cadence in January, so I was eager to attend a Cadence Round Table with...
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CactusNet: One Network to Rule Them All
There is a widening split in the approaches being taken by academic attempts to built deep neural networks (DNNs) with more powerful recognition, and implementation approaches that are trying to be...
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