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Advanced Packaging Delivers More Than Moore

Moore's Law is running out of steam. Depending on your point of view, it is dead, dying or slowing. As a result, there is an increasing interest in technologies that go under the title "More than...

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How to Set Up and Plot Large-Signal S Parameters?

Characterizing RF circuits with small-signal S parameters is a well-established practice. However, small-signal S parameters are not sufficient to describe nonlinear circuits with moderate-to-large...

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Greg Yeric and Rob Aitken Dive into the Details

The last day of TechCon had two keynotes rich in deeper technical content, from Greg Yeric on Process Technology Limbo , and Rob Aitken, on How to Build and Connect a Trillion Things . Greg Yeric Greg...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave II, Part II

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol... before reading this post, be sure to have read the first three installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three...

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IEDM 2017

The start of December means it is the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco (it used to be in Washington alternate years but it is in San Francisco for the forseeable future). I have...

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2017 Workshop on Electronic Design Automation in Tainan Taiwan

It was the third continuous year that Cadence Academic Network supported the Workshop on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) in Taiwan. The event was hosted by National Cheng Kung University in Tainan...

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COTS? Commercial Products in US Government Electronics

COTS is government jargon for Commercial Off-The-Shelf. This means the government going out an purchasing commercial products that are available to anyone, not something commissioned specially by the...

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Virtuosity: SKILLful ViVA – The Champion of Graph Analysis

For a long time, I have had the curiosity to know why Cadence APIs are called SKILL, but never tried to explore more on this topic and the veiled story behind this name. Of late while documenting a...

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Four Exciting Examples of Modern AI from NVIDIA

A few months ago, we had the honor of having Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director of NVIDIA India, speak at an executive forum that we had in Bangalore. NVIDIA's GPU technology is used to power what they...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave III, Part I

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol... before reading this post, be sure to have read the first four installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three...

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RISC-V Workshop, Milpitas

The latest semi-annual RISC-V workshop took place the week after Thanksgiving. The last one was in Shanghai. The next one is in Barcelona. This one was in...Milpitas. At least it didn't require a plane...

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What's New in Cadence Help 3.0?

I am sure you would agree when I say that a help tool is the one utility without which no software service can ever work. Cadence Help is one such powerful tool , which is integrated with almost all...

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Whiteboard Wednesdays - What to expect from TLM 2.0 Models for Memory...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Vivek Nandakumar explains the behavioral differences between Loosely Timed (LT) and Approximately Timed (AT) TLM 2.0 models. https://youtu.be/TRdukWFeQSM

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Ploughing 1 TB of RAM with Twenty x86 Oxen and 10,000 RISC-V Chickens

OK, that wins the prize for best title of a presentation in the recent RISC-V workshop, or pretty much any workshop. I couldn't resist using it aa a title for this post. Can you say click-bait? You'll...

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Virtuosity: Can I Graphically Edit Width Spacing Patterns?

You know the old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, this could hold true when you are editing designs in Virtuoso as well. Visual edits can sometimes be more convenient to layout...

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Blue LEDs, Nobel Prizes, and IEDM Keynote

At IEDM last week, for the first time, there was a second plenary session (awards and keynotes) on Wednesday. presented by Nobel Laureate Hiroshi, one of the inventors of the high intensity blue light...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave III, Part II

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol . Be sure to read the previous installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits, Part I and Part II Stave III:...

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Virtuosity: From Hatchlings to Fledglings to a Flock of Birds Blogging Together

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird When a few of us in the Cadence CAS Technical...

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Why Don't Planes Obey Moore's Law

In my post about Silexica ( Silexica: Mastering Multicore ) I said that I like to use planes as an analogy for cores in a multi-core system. As I said there: They haven't got appreciably faster but you...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave IV, Part I: The Last of the Three Spirits

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol . Be sure to read the previous installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost , Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits , Part I and Part II Stave...

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