Virtuosity: Driving Along a Longer Route May Take You Home Sooner!
I live in India, in a suburb in the national capital region. If you have ever visited us here, or have heard about the traffic in our city, you are sure to know that long drives in the city traffic are...
View ArticleThere's More Voice in Your Future
Rich Kennewick gave the keynote on the second day of the Linley IoT Hardware Conference recently. He is the CEO of a company called Voicebox and his keynote was Enabling Voice in the IoT . I had not...
View ArticleSharpening Learning Curve through Cadence Support Portal
Hefty books give many people shivers, especially in the tech world. ‘Table of Contents’ often comes to rescue and lets the learner scroll to a topic of interest. However, going through many and various...
View ArticlePhotonics Summit and Workshop 2017
Interested in learning about system-level integration of electronic/photonic devices? The use of silicon photonics allows semiconductor designers to leverage the billions of dollars invested in...
View ArticleWhat's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 21st to 25th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Cadence building 10 patio (camera Paula Jones) Monday: Linley Group Looks at the IoT Market Tuesday: SEMICON China Panel Wednesday: Integrated...
View ArticleBayerische Motoren Werke und Fehlerkultur
Fehlerkultur is apparently untranslatable into English, at least according to Michael Würtenburger, the head of BMW car IT. His best try was "no-blame organization." His theme echoed many other...
View ArticleGerman Computer Museums
After leaving the title of yesterday's post in German, the obvious place to go for the next stop on the summer of computer museums is Germany. If you ask people which was the first digital computer,...
View ArticleLinley Group Looks at the IoT Market
Recently the Linley Group held their IoT Hardware Conference. Mike Demler kicked off with an overview of the IoT market, and on the second day Linley Gwenapp presented a deeper dive into IoT chips...
View ArticleDo You Have The Tools You Need To Verify Your ARM Multi-core, Coherent SoC?
Multi-core, coherent SoCs are very complex and verifying their behavior requires a system level perspective that is not easily acquired. As more devices incorporate the coherent multi-core architecture...
View ArticleSEMICON China Panel: Faster Than You Think
The afternoon of the first day of SEMICON West was taken up by a series of presentations and a panel session called the China Innovation and Investment Forum . The participants were: Lung Chu, SEMI...
View ArticleBarCamp Concept in the Scope of Microelectonics
Historical Background The idea of BarCamp was established the first time by the Internet pioneer Tim O’Reilly in 2003 at his farm in San Francisco Bay. The invited people were developers, journalists,...
View ArticleIt's a Visual World
Here’s an experiment to try: in a quiet (but crowded) Auditorium, drop a stack of plates. Hypothesis: At the first splinters of the crash, all eyes will jerk to the source of the sound. You probably...
View ArticleDriverless Trucks and Trains: Dream or Possibility?
In October 2016, an 18-wheeler truck traveled 120 miles in the US and delivered 50,000 cans of beer. Nothing remarkable in that, except that the truck drove itself while a driver on board relaxed. Such...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: A Love Story
Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows software applications to become increasingly more accurate in predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so....
View ArticleWhat’s New With Cadence PCI Express IP? Almost Everything!
PCI-SIG Developer’s Conference 2017 was held in Santa Clara, California in June this year where several hundred customers from more than a hundred unique companies visited the conference. The...
View ArticleIntegrated Virtual Dummy Metal Fill
Some things in semiconductor manufacturing sound made up when you first hear about them. Through silicon vias? You're joking, right? Chemical-mechanical polishing/planarization (CMP)? You mean after...
View ArticlePut On Your Perspectacles: How Perspec Can Speed Up Your Testbench
It’s no secret that the bulk of time running simulations is spent on the testbench side. You can throw as many cores as you want at the DUT when you’re running RTL tests, but let's face it, it’s the...
View ArticleLeveraging Search Preference to Get Best out of support.cadence.com
Cadence provides products across the EDA spectrum, from Silicon Package Board to Digital IC. Each of these areas, called platforms in Cadence parlance, have multiple tools that help achieve specific...
View ArticleDare to be Different
Differentation Almost everything has to be differentiated from alternatives in some way. There are some things that are not, and we have a special word for that, "commodity." For some reason, the...
View ArticleShorten Your Time to Market! Get Started with Training Bytes
How can you become an expert in your field? Access our short self-help videos called Training Bytes. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3... 1. Login 2. Search Self Learning 3. Select Training Bytes We know time to...
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