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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 28th to September 1st 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Saint Francis Yacht Club (camera Gary Bengier) Monday: The 500th Breakfast Bytes Post Tuesday: Mary Meeker on Internet Trends Wednesday: Meeker on...
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Four Early Computers: 1 and 2
Recently I was at the Computer History Museum (CHS) in Mountain View. For more about the museum, see Computer History Museum History. There are so many historical computers that it is impossible to...
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The 500th Breakfast Bytes Post
This is the 500th post I've written for Breakfast Bytes since I re-joined Cadence in October 2015. Apart from during Cadence shutdowns, Breakfast Bytes has appeared every weekday ("fresh every...
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Mary Meeker on Internet Trends
Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed report on internet trends. She looks at different areas, such as advertising or gaming, and different geographies,...
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CDNLive India 2017 Is Around the Corner!
It’s almost time for CDNLive India! For those of you who don’t know, CDNLive is Cadence’s annual user conference that is held in nine cities around the world. In India it is always held in Bangalore,...
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Back in the Black with a Team-Based AC/DC Power Integrity Design and Analysis...
We hear from a lot of customers. Whether it’s asking for help using our IR drop analysis or AC analysis technology, how to improve PCB design processes, or optimizing decoupling capacitor usage, we...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - ASR and the Breakthrough in the Deployment of Mass...
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Samer Hijazi, Senior Design Architect, does a deep dive into Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and the deep learning techniques that are driving this...
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Meeker on Internet Trends in China
Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed report on internet trends. There is a lot of detail. And when I say "a lot" I mean that this year's report is 355...
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Is it Amper, or is it Music?
Note: Use your headphones for this post! On August 21 st , one week ago, the world’s first album composed and produced by an AI was unveiled. In collaboration with the human singer/songwriter Taryn...
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Meeker on Internet Trends in India
Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed report on internet trends. There is a lot of detail. And when I say "a lot" I mean that this year's report is 355...
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Four Early Computers, 3 and 4
This is a continuation of Four Early Computers: 1 and 2 . The story opens as our intrepid writer...that would be me...is still in the middle of his final year as an undergraduate studying computer...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: What Are Parametric Sets?
Over the past few IC6.1.7 and ICADV12.3 ISR releases, a lot of new and useful features have been added to Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler. An interesting one that recently caught my...
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Naveed Sherwani Takes the Reins at SiFive
A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Naveed Sherwani, the new CEO of SiFive. For more background on them, see my post SiFive: a RISC-V Fabless Semiconductor Company . Background Naveed did his PhD in the...
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Music and AI: A Follow-Up
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” ― Pythagoras “Where words leave off, music begins.” ― Heinrich Heine “Words make you think a thought....
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Benchmarking Deep Learning Platforms
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays episode, Mengjun Leng investigates different deep learning platforms, such as Caffe, TensorFlow, MatConvNet, running on GPUs. We will talk about why and how we...
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How To Create L3 Cache Command Overflow Stress Test in Less Than 2 Days
One category of difficult SoC tests to create are stress tests, to validate the limits of SoC functionality and its behavior in this scenario. It’s usually not overloading a data input port that is...
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Quantus FS Field Solver for the FinFET Era
For any parasitic extraction tool, there is always a tradeoff between performance and accuracy. If SPICE simulations were billions of times faster then we would use circuit simulation for large...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 11th to 15th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Singapore Botanic Garden (camera Page Teh) Monday: CCIX, review and an announcement Tuesday: Why Are Design Tools So Bad? Or Are They?...
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Virtuosity: Saving, Loading and Sharing ADE Annotation Settings
The whole ADE annotation flow was overhauled way back in IC6.1.6 but at that time there was no way to share the annotation settings between designs, or to automatically load them. Well, in IC6.1.7...
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Neural Engineering System Design
At HOTCHIPS 2017, we had a special break so we could watch the eclipse. Of course, Cupertino wasn't on the path of totality. We had to share a very limited number of eclipse glasses since the ones the...
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