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X-Propagation: Xcelium Simulator’s X-prop Technology Ensures Deterministic Reset
All chips need to cold reset on every power-up. Warm resets, however, are a bit more complicated. Take a smartphone screen, for example. The screen may power down while the phone is idle. However, the...
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Virtuosity: Handy UI Enhancements in ADE Assembler & ADE Explorer
We have been busy working on several small UI enhancements for Assembler & Explorer that will have a big impact! In this blog, I will give you an overview of the enhancements we have made to the...
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Welcome to The India Circuit!
Welcome to this, the first blog on The India Circuit (which, as someone cleverly pointed out, can be shortened to “The IC”)! The India Circuit will be about the Indian Electronics System Design &...
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Tensilica Has the Same Birthday as Harry Potter
You probably know that Harry Potter's birthday is July 31st. As it happens, that was the same day that Tensilica was founded. Furthermore, both started 20 years ago. The first Harry Potter book was...
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Happy Birthday Tensilica
Yes, it’s Tensilica’s birthday! Twenty years ago today, on July 31, 1997, Tensilica was officially incorporated by Chris Rowen, who I knew from our Synopsys days when he was VP of the Design Reuse...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 7th to 11th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Cadence cafeteria patio (camera Sean) Monday: Discovery of the Electron Tuesday: Battery Derangement Syndrome Wednesday: Moving Logic to the 3rd...
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BROADPWN: Attacking Smartphones through the Wi-Fi Chip
Do you have an iPhone? Did it suddenly update IoS at the end of last week? That's because of a vulnerability discovered by a researcher, Nitay Arenstein, in the Broadcom Wi-Fi chip. Since lots of...
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How to Model State Machines in the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard
The Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) is experiencing growing customer interest, and generating a host of questions. In this blog Sharon Rosenberg details the modeling of state machines using...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to Cadence USB Type-C VIP
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Asila Nahas describes the USB Type-C VIP and goes over the multiple designs the VIP can be used to verify. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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An Academic View on How Tesla Will Not Win
Professor Markus Lienkamp, of Technische Universität München (roughly the MIT of Germany) was the only academic who presented at the Automotiv Elektronik Kongress in Ludwigsburg. His presentation was...
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O Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz...Truck
You hear a lot of talk about autonomous cars, but I've also heard many times that autonomous trucks may well be first. If it costs a fixed amount to make a vehicle autonomous, then it is much easier to...
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How to Model State Machines in the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for...
The Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) is experiencing growing customer interest, and generating a host of questions. In this blog Sharon Rosenberg details the modeling of state machines using...
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Virtuosity: The New Virtuoso ADE Product Suite - Knowledge Resource Kit
Cadence introduced its new set of Virtuoso® ADE products, which includes Virtuoso ADE Explorer , Virtuoso ADE Assembler , Virtuoso Variation Option , and Virtuoso ADE Verifier , in the IC6.1.7 and...
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System Design Enablement: And the Green Grass Grew All Around
...And the flea on the feather, And the feather on the wing, And the wing on the bird, And the bird on the egg, And the egg in the nest, And the nest on the twig, And the twig on the branch, And the...
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Computer History Museum History
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is on Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain View in one of the buildings that used to make up the SGI campus back when they were the major force in graphics. Most of the...
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How to Model State Machines in the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for...
The Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) is experiencing growing customer interest, and generating a host of questions. In this blog Sharon Rosenberg details the modeling of state machines using...
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Discovery of the Electron
Today is the 120th anniversary of the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson in 1897, for which he received the Nobel prize in 1906. The results were published in Philosophical Magazine 44 (269):...
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Virtuosity: Loading Complete 'Routing Recipes' with a Single Click
Have you checked out the new VSR Preset feature and the related forms in the IC6.1.7 and ICADV12.3 releases? We all have heard how automatic routing has significantly reduced the turnaround time for...
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Beyond Robots and Jetpacks at the Society of Women Engineers Conference in Pune
This event happened a while ago, but I thought it was still topical enough to blog about since there aren’t many events that focus on women engineers. The Grace Hopper Conference is one, and the...
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Battery Derangement Syndrome
I have written a fair bit recently about electric cars and electric trucks. Note that I'm not talking about autonomous driving, although some of the ADAS technologies are coming along at the same time....
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