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Virtuosity: Signal Browsing Gets Easier with Advanced Search Options
Imagine what would happen if we were living in the world with no search engines. Wouldn’t we find ourselves lost in the deep information ocean, struggling to find the relevant stuff? The situation...
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China Bike Rental
In the last couple of years, one of the biggest changes in China has been the arrival of bike sharing everywhere. At one level, you can think of it as Uber for bicycles: there's a smartphone app, you...
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Shopping in Reality: How VR and AR Are Changing The Way We Shop
Like millions of Indians, I shop a lot online, whether for groceries, shoes or even electronics. I buy most of my clothes online, but here I have hit a snag, and that is in sizing. I seem to be in a...
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Semiconductor Rankings: Thanks for the Memory
I wrote recently about how Samsung's extraordinary 50+% year-on-year growth took them to #1. I also cautioned that a lot seemed to be due to strong prices in memory, DRAM in particular. I was reminded...
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SEMICON China: Me and 70,000 of My Closest Friends
If you want to know why I made the trek from California to Shanghai to attend SEMICON China, it is well summed up in the press release that SEMI put out on opening day: SEMICON China 2018 opens today...
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CDNLive, the New Season
It's nearly April and so it is the start of the CDNLive season. This year there are seven conferences, starting with Silicon Valley. The dates are: Silicon Valley (in the Santa Clara Convention...
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App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part I
Welcome to a special multi-part edition of the App Note Spotlight, where we’ll be highlighting an interesting app note that you may have overlooked— Simulation Performance Coding Guidelines for...
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Top Three Headlines that Caught My Eye: AI and Big Data, More or Less
Occasionally I come across a mishmash of headlines that warrant mention, and these were all reported within the last week! Uber’s Autonomous Fail And so it begins. A self-driving Uber car has struck a...
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SEMICON China: Is This China's Decade?
One of the presentations on the opening day of SEMICON China, here in Shanghai, was by Rick Wallace, who is the CEO of KLA-Tencor (KT). He started by pointing out that KT have been selling for the...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to the NVDIMM Standard
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Marc Greenberg discusses the benefits of moving non-volatile memory from the SSD to the DDR bus and possible new storage-class memories. www.youtube.com/watch
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"Lick" Licklider, Unsung Hero of US Computer Science
During the war, there was a lot of computer technology developed in all of UK and US (and Germany, although that was mostly electromechanical and so was a sort of dead end). After the war, the US and...
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Ajit and the History of SEMI
At SEMICON China, there was a press briefing with Ajit Manoja, the CEO of SEMI, along with Lung Chu, who runs SEMI China, and thus also has responsibility for SEMICON China. This year was the 30th...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 26th to 30th 2018
https://youtu.be/dYLZaBsYBbA Coming from the Cadence cafeteria (camera Sean) Monday:In Other News, 100 People Were Killed by Cars Driven by Humans Tuesday: EDA: Not Like Household Products Wednesday:...
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Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 Now Available
The IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads . IC6.1.7 ISR18 ICADV12.3 ISR18 For information on supported platforms, compatibility with...
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EDA: Not Like Semiconductor Equipment
It was SEMICON China last week, and I've written a couple of posts about it this week. Talking about semiconductor manufacturing equipment a lot recently reminded me of a friend who used to work in the...
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In Other News, 100 People Were Killed by Cars Driven by People
You probably heard that last week, a woman was killed in Phoenix by a driverless car. In 2016, 37,461 people were killed on US roads. So if that day was typical (and it probably varies by weekday...
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EDA: Not Like Household Products
I wrote recently about why EDA sales are not like semiconductor equipment sales, despite having a lot of the same customers, and the same Moore's Law process technology treadmill. But EDA isn't like a...
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Digital Twinning, Explained: You Won't Believe the Metaphor This Time
It makes sense, right? When developing an expensive hardware/software system—think cell phone, server, car, or fighter jet—you might want to make a virtual model alongside it to make sure that it works...
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What’s Hot in Verification at this Year’s CDNLive? It’s Portable Stimulus Again!
CDNLive is a user conference, and verification is one of the largest categories of content with multiple tracks covering multiple days. Portable stimulus is one of the hottest new areas in...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Doing More With Less—Software GPS and Tensilica...
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett describes a theoretical IoT device for monitoring shipping containers and the ways that the system cost could be reduced by implementing functions...
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