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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 5th to March 9th 2018
https://youtu.be/YesJPmKCeio Coming from Embedded World, Nuremberg (camera Robert Schweiger) Monday: Spectre with a Red Hat Tuesday: Spectre with a Red Hat 2 Wednesday: Embedded World Keynotes...
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Engineers, and How to Manage Them
I've covered various aspects of an EDA company: sales, marketing, application engineers, even being the CEO. Today, it is the turn of engineering. My background is engineering. I started my career...
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Incubators, Accelerators and Fabless Chip Design at IESA Vision Summit 2018
This week we had one of the Indian semiconductor industry’s biggest and most well-attended conferences, the Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) Vision Summit, in Bangalore. This...
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Spectre with a Red Hat
A couple of weekends ago it was FOSDEM 2018, the largest conference on open source in Europe. It was held in Brussels. In keeping with the open source ethos, it was free, anyone could go, there was no...
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Spectre with a Red Hat, part 2
This is the second post about Red Hat's John Masters presentation at FOSDEM 2018 presentation Exploiting Modern Microarchitectures: Meltdown, Spectre, and Other Attacks . The first part appeared in...
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App Note Spotlight: Choosing the Incremental Elaboration Flow That’s Right...
Welcome to another App Note Spotlight! One of the biggest issues facing verification engineers is the question of reducing elaboration time. Using incremental elaboration (MSIE) can greatly reduce that...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Error Correction Code Implementations in Memory...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jing Liu provides a simple explanation of the in-line and out-of-band methods of Error Correction Code (ECC) implementation in memory subsystem designs....
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3nm Cadence and imec
I started Breakfast Bytes on 8th October 2015, my first day back at Cadence. The very first (real) post was Cadence and imec Announce World's First 5nm Tapeout . I had to find out what I could about...
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Embedded World: Mark Papermaster of AMD
The opening keynote from Embedded World in Nuremberg was by Mark Papermaster, who is the CTO of AMD. The second-day keynote was by Andrea Martin, who is CTO for that part of IBM. The first thing to...
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Virtuosity: Do I Need To Run a Simulation To Plot From a Text File?
You'll be glad to hear the answer is No! In Virtuoso® Visualization and Analysis , we have a Calculator function available called getAsciiWave , which will create a plot from your text file without the...
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Weapons of Math Destruction
Two things have hit me profoundly this week, and I wanted to share them with you. Ending Bias in Artificial Intelligence The first is an article that I wish I could just copy in its entirety and paste...
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Spanish Flu Is 100 Years Old on Sunday
This Sunday, March 11, is the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of Spanish flu in 1918, when patient zero was diagnosed. Anniversary usually implies something good, but Spanish flu was anything but....
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Thermal Analysis of Package/PCB Systems: Challenges and Solutions
More and more package/PCB system designs are requiring thermal analysis. Power dissipation is a critical issue in package/PCB systems design which requires careful consideration of the thermal and...
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Temporals, Reset, and Test Phases
One of the biggest challenges in dynamic functional verification is testing Reset – resetting the DUT during simulation and check DUT operation afterwards. The main challenges are propagating the reset...
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Walled Gardens
I'm in China this week, for SEMICON China, along with 70,000 of my closest friends. That's three times the size of SEMICON West, if anyone is counting. So I'm going to be writing about China all week....
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The Great Firewall of China
This is a continuation of yesterday's post on Walled Gardens . Arguably the greatest walled garden of them all is China. It even has a wall! A great one. The Great Firewall of China China is not a...
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Preparing Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for Ratification
The Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group met at the DVCon 2018 to move the process forward towards ratification. While we can't predict exactly when it will be ratified, the goal is now more...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 19th to 23rd 2018
https://youtu.be/2-ErrC9yy2k Coming from SEMICON China, Shanghai (camera Tracy Zhu) Monday: CDNLive Silicon Valley Preview Tuesday: SEMICON China II Wednesday: "Lick" Licklider, Unsung Hero of US...
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Meeting the Challenges of the 2018 National Defense Strategy
If you know anything about me, you’ll know that one of the most important things to me about the future of technology is making sure that this new technology is accessible to everyone. It is critical...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - The 3 Methods of Memory Controller Port Arbitration
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jing Liu describes three methods of port arbitration in memory controller designs: round-robin, priority round-robin, and weighted round-robin....
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