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Coming to DVCon? It's Not Too Late to Sign Up!
Are you coming to DVCon this year? It’s right around the corner, but it’s not too late to register! DVCon is the flagship conference for all things functional design and verification, showcasing the...
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Is Big Brother Watching You?
I recently came across a fascinating piece by Paramal Satyal . He is Nepalese although these days he seems to live in France. His piece is largely autobiographical, but what caught my eye was a bit in...
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Wind of Change in Hardware Design
After months of freezing temperatures in Pittsburgh, a 78 degree wind hit me as I stepped out of the office yesterday. While I’m sure it will be cold again by the time this blog gets published,...
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Science Fiction and Technology Reality
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. —Sue Monk Kidd, author I just had an awesome weekend with my sister visiting San Francisco from...
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Paul Kocher: Differential Power Analysis and Spectre
Paul Kocher is a legend in security. A couple of weeks ago SiFive hosted a seminar by Paul. They do these regularly, usually on a small scale, but this one required a large conference room in the San...
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SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (7 of 8)
Backchannel Training Another capability related to equalization adaptation is backchannel training. Many high speed serial link protocols enable the SerDes receiver to evaluate the signal quality of...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview February 26th to March 2nd 2018
https://youtu.be/wq86edcqTdw Coming from Building 10 lobby (camera Sean) Monday: Patents Licensed by the Ton Tuesday: How Many Journalists per Square Acre Wednesday: embedded world Thursday: What the...
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New AMBA 5 ACE/AXI Specification: More About Atomic Transactions
As discussed in the previous installment of this blog, a new class of atomic transactions was introduced in the AMBA® 5 ACE/AXI specification to make operations at the remote locations more streamlined...
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Virtuosity: New Eye Diagram Measurements
The Eye Diagram assistant in Virtuoso® Visualization and Analysis allows you to create eye diagrams, add masks and also calculate some standard measurements. The measurements have recently been...
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How Do You Get to Be CEO?
I wrote last week about Being CEO and I said that I'd done it twice in my career. But I omitted an important point: how do you get to be CEO? I assume we are talking about a small company, or a...
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Delivering on the IoT Promise with Galileo Software GPS and Tensilica DSP IP
What is a software GPS, what does it have to do with Tensilica DSP IP, and why would anyone care? To answer that, let's start with a quiz from the transportation industry. How many shipping containers...
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Patents: Licensed by the Ton
I wrote recently about What Happens in a Patent Lawsuit? Today, I want to look at patents from a higher level: why do we have them, and how well do they work in the semiconductor and EDA industries....
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Xcelium and Cavium: What’s the Deal?
So—you may have heard that Xcelium Parallel Simulator is available on Arm servers now. While that’s all well and good, why is it such a big deal? Well, Cadence gathered up Ziv Binyamini, Gopal Hegde,...
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Take Advantage of Advancements in Real Number Modeling and Simulation
Verification is the top challenge in mixed-signal design. Bringing analog and digital domains together into unified verification planning, simulating, and debugging is a challenging task for rapidly...
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Autonomous Cars, Vision, and Protocols
Remember how, last May, I wrote about the five levels of autonomy of the autonomous car? I’ve been thinking about cars a lot because I just got a new-to-me car, a 2015 model (I won’t tell you what it...
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How Many Journalists per Square Acre?
It doesn't matter how low your standard is for science journalism, the journalists always seem to manage to go lower. I realize that the sort of people who go to journalism school tend not to be the...
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Why Software-Based GPS Is Great for Location-Based IoT Applications
At the Cadence booth at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we’re featuring a demo of a software-based GPS receiver from Galileo Satellite Navigation running off a Cadence Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP. It’s...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Unpacking the DFI Low-Power Interface
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, John MacLaren describes the operation of the DFI Low Power Interface to reduce PHY power consumption. www.youtube.com/watch
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Embedded World 2018: Dreaming of Electric Cars
I am at embedded world in Nuremberg. One thing that is not here is warm weather. All that I can say is that it is warmer in Nuremberg than Munich, -7ºC instead of -11 º C. People don't remember it...
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What the FEC is Forward Error Correction?
What is forward error correction (FEC)? It is automatically correcting errors in transmitted network data (and sometimes detecting some errors that are too severe to correct). The reason it is...
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