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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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Infineon’s Coverage-Driven Distribution: Shortcutting the MDV Loop
There are more ways to improve productivity in the verification process than simply making the simulation run faster. One of these is to cut down on the amount of time engineers spend working hands-on...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 14th to 18th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Stirling Castle, Scotland (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Dolphins? In Milpitas? It's EDPS Time Tuesday: Automotive Development Used to End with SOP...
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Apple Pie à la Muir: Complexity
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." —Carl Sagan Storytime When I was a teenager, I had a hard time getting up in the morning. It was so much easier to...
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Moving Logic to the 3rd Dimension
So the new Doctor Who will be a woman. Who(!) would have guessed? As it happens, I saw the very first episode of Dr Who (in B&W). Because of a macabre coincidence, I can even tell you the date. It...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Comparing Waveform Outputs of Analog Simulations
Comparing waveform outputs of a simulation run with the outputs of a “golden“ or any other “previous“ run is one of the regular tasks that analog designers perform while tuning their designs to meet...
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The Art of Analog Design Part 1: Overview of Variation-Aware and Robust Design
In this series, we will focus on advanced concepts for custom IC design, in particular, variation-aware design (VAD). With emergence of high-speed simulators such as Spectre ® APS, designers can now...
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I Know What the SDI in Samsung SDI Stands For, and You Won't Believe It
How's that for click bait? But it's actually true.I didn't know what the SDI of Samsung SDI actually stood for. So I tried to discover. It is harder than you think to find out, partially because the...
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Save & Restore with More: Preserve Your Entire SoC
The concept of Save and Restore is simple: instead of re-initializing your simulation every time you want to run a test, only initialize it once. Then you can save the simulation as a “snapshot” and...
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British Computer Museums
This week we move to Britain. The industrial revolution started in the Midlands there, and I highly recommend visiting Blists Hills Museum (near Ironbridge which is the first...you'll never...
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Customer Support Recommends – Rigid-Flex in Allegro PCB Editor 17.2
Cadence Online Support has this Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) on Rigid-Flex in Allegro PCB Editor 17.2 that introduces a flow to define unique stackups by physical zone. The Cross Section Editor in 17.2 has...
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The Art of Analog Design Part 2: Monte Carlo Sampling
Historically, one of the great challenges that analog and mixed-designers face has been accounting for the effect of process variation on their design. Minimizing the effect of process variation is an...
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The Art of Analog Design Part 2: Monte Carlo Sampling
Historically, one of the great challenges that analog and mixed-designers face has been accounting for the effect of process variation on their design. Minimizing the effect of process variation is an...
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Dolphins? In Milpitas? It's EDPS Time
Yes, it's true. After who knows how many years, EDPS is not going to be in Monterey, but in Milpitas. They still seem to be keeping the dolphin logo though. So, yes, dolphins in Milpitas. EDPS is the...
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Cadence Support Portal – Enhancements Released in July, 2017
Do you access Cadence Support Portal ( https://support.cadence.com ) often? If yes, you may be interested to know what has been happening to the site lately. There have been many enhancements and...
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Metaphorically Speaking... Part I
In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland , Alice ends up in a world of crazy logic, having tea with the Hatter and the March Hare at a Mad tea party. The Hatter asks her the now-famous question, “Why is...
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Automotive Software Development Used to End with SOP
Back in about 2001, when I was last working for Cadence, Cadence started bringing in a lot of executives from Intel. We had merged custom IC and digital IC engineering and I was running the merged...
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The Book and The Novelty: Metaphors, Part II
I’m in the middle of reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s most recent book, Here I Am , on my morning commute (and no, I'm not reading and driving at the same time — I don't have a Level Three car yet). I...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Smart Speakers and Audio DSP Processing
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video Gerard Andrews discusses the three areas of smart speakers that require high-performance audio DSPs to process these features. (Please visit the site to view...
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Fabs in India: The Debate Continues
There has been a lot of news lately about manufacturing under the “Make In India” banner. In the last ten days alone, the Kalyani Group has announced the country’s first-ever private missile subsystems...
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