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Cadence Collaborates with Test & Verification Solutions on Portable Stimulus
The Cadence® Connections® Verification Program brings together a worldwide network of services, training, and IP development experts that support Cadence verification solutions. The program members...
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Designing Data Bus with DDR5 Technology Today? Yes, It Is Possible!
Many system designers have been working with DDR4 RAM components in the past couple years and using them in system designs. With product demands of increasing performance and decreasing power budget,...
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Running a Salesforce
I decided to run some posts on different areas of companies, and what I have found are the issues running them. These mostly apply to smaller companies, since in a large company, any senior position is...
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Virtuosity:Expression Builder - Now Plots ALL!
The Expression Builder has simplified writing complex expressions. It is uncluttered, intuitive and easy to use. You can evaluate expressions or plot signals for particular points from histories and...
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#CES2018 Cowboy Style, Pt. II
This is a continuation of my travelog of my CES experiences. If you missed it, be sure to read Part I ! January 11, 2018 Today I explored the North Hall, the automotive and 3D printing areas, not even...
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Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions for 2018
Every year Breakfast Bytes makes some predictions for the year. At the end of the year, I review how I did in what I try and make as objective a manner as possible. If you want to see my assessment of...
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Passwords: How Even Your Bank Doesn't Know Your PIN
In my predictions for 2018 piece yesterday, Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions for 2018 , I wrote: The first amazing thing about this is that even when I was studying computer science back in stone...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 29th to February 2nd 2018
https://youtu.be/OtFTlu1u9xI Coming from TSMC North America (camera Sean) Monday: TSMC 30 Years Ago Today Tuesday: All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Useful Wednesday: Open Source IP in Government...
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Passwords: Just Add Salt
This is a second post about passwords, picking up where Passwords: How Even Your Bank Doesn't Know Your PIN left off. We left off yesterday with the problem that the bad guys can get a whole load of...
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App Note Spotlight: SystemVerilog Gets a Real Number Modeling Update (SVRNM)
Thanks to Xcelium, there’s a new feature on the block in SystemVerilog. It pertains to real number modeling (SVRNM), and it both enhances and simplifies the design of mixed-signal circuits. How? Well,...
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CCIX Coherency: Verification Challenges and Approaches
Cache coherency is not a new concept. Coherent architectures have existed for many generations of CPU and Interconnect designs. Verifying adherence to coherency rules in SoCs has always been one of the...
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Coventor Annual Panel: The Next Five Years
For the last few years at IEDM, Coventor have run an evening panel session looking at some advanced topic. This year the topic was Everything is Under Control: Delivering the Next Five Years of...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Verification Challenges for SoCs Integrating CCIX...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays episode, Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence, describes the verification challenges for SoCs when integrating CCIX (Cache Coherent Chip-to-Chip Protocol)...
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Type MIN / MAX Values in Specman
When defining coverage bins for coverage items, the number and size of bins depend on the item type. People seek ways to define the MIN and MAX value of the type automatically, rather than typing the...
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The Top Four Tech Articles that Caught My Eye This Month
Now that I have your attention, here are a few non-CES-related articles that caught my eye recently—all interesting enough in their own right, so I thought I’d squish them all into one post. STEM or...
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City Slickers Marketing
Last week I talked about sales in Running a Salesforce . This week it is the turn of marketing. Let me start by pointing out that marketing is a lot more than PR, which is what many technical people...
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TSMC 30 Years Ago Today
At IEDM in December, Gary Dagastine is one of the people responsible for press relations for the conference. My piece about Chips and Technologies, the First Fabless Company reminded him that back in...
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The Promise Of Digital India
By 2019, it is estimated that there will be five billion mobile phone users in the world, with around 67% of the world’s population owning a mobile phone, according to the website Statista. In India,...
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JEDEC UFS 3.0 Now Available in Cadence VIP Portfolio – For Mobile and...
The JEDEC UFS (Universal Flash Storage) started in 2011 with the v1.0 first specification version, supporting a bandwidth of 300 MB/s per lane. Since then JEDEC has been continuously releasing new UFS...
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All Models Are Wrong; Some Are Useful
"All models are wrong, some are useful.” This remark is attributed to the statistician George Box who used it as the section heading in a paper published in 1976. Anyway, George Box went on to clarify...
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