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Open Data Science Conference West
On November 2, 3, and 4, I attended ODSC West in San Francisco. What is ODSC, you ask? It’s the Open Data Science Conference. With over 3500 attendees, it’s one of the largest applied data science...
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October Revolution
Today is the 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia. But wait, isn't it November? Indeed it is, but back in 1917, Russia still had not switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar....
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - A Practical Approach to Failure Modes, Effects, and...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, John MacLaren explains the steps required for Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) in automotive designs and the specific practices incorporated...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 13th to 17th 2017
https://youtu.be/Ar6PcH48DNo Coming from David Intercontinental Tel Aviv (camera Natalie) Monday: CDNLive Israel Tuesday: Jasper User Group Wednesday: IEDM Preview Thursday: Arm TechCon Foundry...
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Simon Segars: It's the Security, Stupid
Simon Segars opened the second day of Arm TechCon (or for exhibitors who didn't notice the first day since they were setting up, the first day). Simon, of course, is the CEO of Arm, although Arm is no...
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The Exciting New Product Launched at CDNLive India 2017
One of the highlights at CDNLive India 2017 that was held in September was the launch of the new memory characterization solution from Cadence called the Legato Memory Solution. I had a chance to speak...
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Adding Annotations in Your e Code
If you have had a chance to work with languages like Java or C#, you might have come across Annotations . Since the Specman 17.10 version, annotations have become part of the e language! (See Java...
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How to Be Sure Your PCB Design Is Protected from ESD Events
One way to determine if your design can withstand an electro-static discharge (ESD) event is to test it in the lab with an ESD gun. It might work. But it might not. If it does not, it is going to be a...
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Social Engineering
The biggest weakness in security are the people. It is almost never the encryption algorithms themselves, or anything technical like that. Last year, Science Daily reported that many people will...
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How to Measure and Improve Design Regularity for Better Yield
The following post is an excerpt of “Methodology for Analyzing and Quantifying Design Style Changes and Complexity using Topological Patterns” that Jason Cain, Principal Member of the Technical Staff...
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Arm Security Manifesto...and Krack
The Internet of Things (IoT) could be a big number...20 billion things... 50 billion things... or Arm's favorite number all week at TechCon, a trillion things. Or it could be a lot closer to zero if...
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Virtuosity: All New XStream In - The Translation Expressway
I took a little extra care dressing up that Monday... My 4-year-old dream had come true and that needed some celebration. All dressed up and simply forgetting the Monday blues I have been suffering...
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Using Search Filters to Improve Search Results on support.cadence.com
While using any search engine, you might often feel there is too much information or too many results and wish to narrow down results. All search engines may not provide such an option, but Cadence...
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How's Technology in Israel?
Last week was the last CDNLive of 2017 (cats have nine lives, Cadence had nine CDNlives this year). CDNLive Israel was all day last Monday. That's actually the second day of the week there, since the...
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Jasper User Group 2017
This year's Jasper User Group (JUG) took place on 7th November. It was the 10th JUG, and the 4th since Jasper was acquired by Cadence. I consulted for Jasper before I worked for Cadence, and so I took...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Simplifying Fault Injection Simulations for...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, YJ Patil answers the "What", "Why", and "How" of fault injection simulations for automotive designs. https://youtu.be/oSI-Omtggl8
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IEDM Preview 2017
Every December is IEDM, the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). This year it is the 63rd, which partially explains the odd name. When it started, an "electron device" was a vacuum tube...
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Why Home Renovation Should Be Easy
Why is your mouse connected to your computer by a 480Mb/s interface when you could boil an egg between the bits transmitted? Well, I exaggerate a little. But speaking of cooking and kitchens, it’s for...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 20th to 22nd 2017
https://youtu.be/aLx0C8H6qt8 Coming from Second Harvest Food Bank, San Jose (camera Sean) Monday: The Alto: The Machine That Changed the World Tuesday: The Alto—Forty Years On Wednesday: What You See...
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Slaying the Gate-Level Simulation (GLS) Dragon: Your Knight Is Here!
Even today, gate-level simulation is still a major signoff step for most semiconductor projects. However, those simulations can take days or weeks to run. A bug that causes a rerun of a gate regression...
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