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Post-Silicon Compute
At the SEMI Strategic Materials Conference (SMC) a few weeks ago, Lucian Shifren of Arm Research talked about Post Silicon Compute . I always like presentations by Arm Research on semiconductor stuff....
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App Note Spotlight - Introduction to Connect Modules
Welcome to the App Note Spotlight—a bi-weekly series where the XTeam highlights an app note that contains valuable information you may not be aware of. Today, we're going to look at connect...
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User Extensions to DUT Error
A question was raised to stackoverflow about how can one extend the dut _error() for printing more information. The capability to provide the test runners and debuggers more information upon an error...
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Exciting Trends in 2018: An Interview with Jaswinder Ahuja
Jaswinder Ahuja is well-known to everyone in the semiconductor and electronics industry in India. He has been Cadence India’s Managing Director since 1996, and is one of the handful of employees WW who...
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SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (5 of 8)
Efficient Interconnect Extraction Once physical layout is complete, (or at least the serial link differential pairs of interest are routed), post-layout verification can take place. One decision to...
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CES Review: Rain...and Some Consumer Electronics
I have been at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) all week. For 116 days through the winter so far, there has been no rain at all in Las Vegas. But once 170,000 attendees came to town, the heavens...
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CRAFTing Your Aero/Defense UVM Testbench the Easy Way
So you want to build an automated testbench for your aero/defense project, eh? Luckily, there’s a solution for you. A project called CRAFT (which stands for Circuit Realization At Faster Timescales)...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 15th to 19th 2018
https://youtu.be/MPkAPCQyFvY Coming from Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas (camera me) Monday: 5G Keynote Panel Tuesday: IEDM Post-5nm Short Course Wednesday: Update on Spectre and Meltdown...
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CES Keynotes: Cars, Flying Cars, Dancers, Music, Lights...and Sustainability
As I said yesterday , it was the Consumer Electronics Show this week. I attended the two big keynotes. The opening keynote on Monday night is traditionally Brian Krzanich of Intel. The next morning,...
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Mobile World Congress in One Keynote
It was CES last week. Generally, this is not an event about mobile, mainly because the big show for that industry is Mobile World Congress (MWC), which takes place in Barcelona a month or so later. For...
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This Was 2017, Looking Forward 2018
With 2017 just out of the door, this is a good time to stop for a few minutes, look back at 2017, and plan ahead for 2018 and the years to come. While thinking of the projects and challenges awaiting...
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IEDM Short Course: After 5nm
The Sunday of IEDM is always two full-day short courses. One is on the future of memory technology, one is on the future of logic technology. This year the logic one was titled Boosting Performance,...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Verification Challenges for SoCs Integrating PCI...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence, describes the verification challenges for SoCs when integrating PCI Express subsystem IP. www.youtube.com/watch
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Spectre and Meltdown: An Update
I wrote an extra Breakfast Bytes post a couple of weeks ago about Spectre and Meltdown , which had suddenly become public a week earler than apparently was planned (having been disclosed to the...
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#CES2018 Cowboy Style, Pt. I
Travelogue time! I turned my trip to the Computer Electronics Show (CES) into a roadtrip with my spouse, and it was a whirlwind. Tuesday, January 9 We left home in Santa Cruz around noon and arrived...
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Virtuosity and Virtuoso Video Diary: Onwards and Upwards
Looking back at 2017, I note with satisfaction that it was a phenomenal year of blogging that saw us achieving tons more than we’d dreamed of. Our twin series of blog posts— Virtuosity and the Virtuoso...
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Why You Shouldn't Trust Ken Thompson
I wrote yesterday about the two exploits, Spectre and Meltdown . I think that the most amazing thing about the security weakness exposed is that it has been around for 20 years, in dozens of...
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Improve High-Speed Serial Link Design with IBIS-AMI Backchannel Simulation
As signal integrity engineers, we know adaptive equalization is used in today’s multi-gigabit serial links to combat the effects of inter-symbol interference (ISI) due to a bandlimited channel. But how...
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A Hackathon to Remember
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about face recognition . Coincidentally, face recognition was front page news earlier this week, with the announcement that it would serve as another authentication...
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Dude, Where Are Your Files?
Let me tell you a funny story. We’ve been working with an outside research agency to write an eBook with new insights into ECAD data management . And based on the findings, I wanted to write a blog...
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