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CDNLive Boston Keynotes
There were three keynotes to kick off CDNLive Boston. Tom Beckley gave the Cadence keynote, then Professor Duane Boning from MIT brought us up to date on photonics, and finally Jim Borowick from...
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Underneath the Stars
Today I would like to share with you a short essay written by my friend David Lettvin [1] . I’ll let it speak for itself. It was a bright clear fall day as I drove over the Tobin Bridge and into...
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Xilinx/Arm/Cadence/TSMC Announce World's First 7nm CCIX Silicon Demonstrator;...
"It takes a village to raise a child," as the African proverb says. It seems to take a good part of the semiconductor ecosystem to design a 7nm CCIX test vehicle. What Is CCIX? CCIX is quite new so...
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Why Pegasus Is the Biggest Breakthrough in SoC Physical Verification in 20...
These days, DRC rule deck availability for the market tools is not a major issue for customers designing on advanced nodes. All EDA vendors work closely with the foundries to facilitate the enablement....
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Automotive IP Family for TSMC 16FFC
At the semiconductor level, automotive poses huge challenges due to an experience mismatch. On one hand are the traditional automotive semiconductor companies, who have a deep experience in automotive...
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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...
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How to get to a Trillion Devices in the Internet of Things in 2035
Next month at ARM TechCon, one of the key discussion topics with be the Internet of Things (IoT), especially after Masayoshi Son, ARM parent’s Softbank’s CEO, took the stage last year and boldly...
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Cadence IP Is Great for Automotive
If you’re designing chips for in-vehicle infotainment, in-cabin electronics, vision systems, digital noise reduction, and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), look at Cadence for the key IP to...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Benchmarking Deep Learning Platforms: The Results
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Mengjun Long follows up on last week's video where she introduced the project of evaluating the speed of different deep learning platforms. In this episode,...
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New Cadence Support of TSMC 7nm, 7nm+, and 12FFC
A quick guide to TSMC processes. There is a 10nm process but very little development is being done at that node. It is like the mad wife kept in the attic like in Jane Eyre. It seems to be primarily...
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CDNLive India Keynote: Qualcomm On 5G And More
CDNLive India concluded last Friday and what an event it was! With 87 paper presentations, six keynotes, an exhibition area, photo booth, Cadence technology pods and more, CDNLive once again proved to...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 18th to 22nd 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from TSMC OIP Symposium, Santa Clara (camera Sean) Monday: Legato: Smooth Memory Design Tuesday: CDNLive India 2017 Trip Report Wednesday: India,...
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Why Are Design Tools So Bad? Or Are They?
In a recent feature article at Electronic Engineering Journal, Kevin Morris asks Why are Design Tools So Bad? Or...What? Another Bug? You will have to read the whole piece if you want to see the entire...
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TSMC Process Roadmap Update
This Wednesday was TSMC's OIP Ecosystem Forum, one of two major events that TSMC run each year. The stars of the OIP Symposium are not so much TSMC themselves but their partners, one of whom is...
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Virtuosity: What Color is Your Virtuoso Wearing Today?
Not many people like to wear the same color every day, so why should Virtuoso? After all, the color we choose or wear is known to have a huge impact on how we feel and behave. So, isn't it reasonable...
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Legato: Smooth Memory Design
At CDNLive in Bengaluru (fka Bangalore), Cadence announced the Legato solution for smooth memory design. The press release went out that morning, and Vinod Kariat talked about it in the technical...
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Follow Video-Embedded Troubleshooting Articles for Easier Debugging and...
Finding a way out of situations is routine in today’s ever changing world—more so in the world of tech. Our problems range from trivial to critical. Mostly, people look for simple solutions that are...
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Virtuosity: Sweeping Multiple Config Views
Before IC6.1.7 ISR10, you could sweep multiple views for only one block in your design. What if you have more than one block that has multiple views that you want to sweep? Well from ISR10 onwards, you...
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Another Hurdle Cleared by the Self-Driving Car
A friend of mine was saying the other day, “I want to be able to go to my car, type something like New York City , take a nap, and have the car wake me when I get there.” My friend lives in California;...
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CDNLive India 2017 Trip Report
I went to Bangalore to CDNLive India. It has a different structure from the other CDNLives that I've attended. It takes place over two days but almost nobody attends both days since the topics are...
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