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Tools and Processors for Computer Vision...and the Summit
When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Jeff Bier, the head of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and the organizer of the Embedded Vision Conference. He gave me a copy of a survey...
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Some Don't Like It Hot: Thermal Model Exchange
Engineers today are faced with complex as well rapid design changes that require multiple design tools to work in conjunction with others. Both the MCAD and ECAD eco-systems have addressed this with...
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Hennessy and Patterson Receive the 2018 Turing Award
The 2018 Turing Award, informally the Nobel prize in Computer Science, has been awarded to Dave Patterson and John Hennessy (along wth a cool $1M). They invented the RISC, the Reduced Instruction Set...
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A Long Way From The 80's: New Kids On The Technology Block
I was cruising through Facebook today and saw a video posted by George Takei Presents about 11 things that younger generations will never understand - basically, things that existed in the 1980’s that...
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Virtuosity: What if I Want to Disable the Filtered Corners?
You'll now be an expert at using the Corner Filters in Virtuoso® ADE Assembler and Virtuoso® ADE Explorer , I'm sure. But so far, you could only enable the corners you found during filtering. Now, we...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 2nd to 6th 2018
https://youtu.be/r6ctqTVCoH0 Coming from deep in space (camera Sean) Monday: SEMICON China: Big, Really Bit Tuesday: Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero Wednesday: How Low Can You Go? Thursday:...
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Clayton Christensen and the Innovator's Dilemma
One of the most readable and influential business books of the last 20 years was Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma , which was originally published in 1997. I know that "readable" is not an...
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List of TLM Analysis Ports: Where Is This Packet Coming From?
Let’s say that you got an invitation from the police station nearest your home to be there the next day at 14:00. Hmm…. What could it be about? You check the letter and envelope for more information,...
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SEMICON China: Big, Really Big
When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Dick Selwood because we arrived together at the press room. He told me it was his last embedded world, since he's retiring, so I wish him...
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NVMe Express 1.3: Addressing the Storage Needs of the Data Revolution from...
The amount of data we are generating and consuming has exploded in recent years. Social media, applications, multimedia streaming, 24-hour connectivity has us talking about Zettabytes of data in the...
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Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero
There are three major events in computers learning to play board games at a very high level: In 1997, Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov In 2017, AlphaGo defeated #1 world Go...
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New AMBA 5 ACE/AXI Specification and Its Support in Cadence ACE/AXI VIP
As discussed in the previous installments of the blog, the recent update of the AMBA ® 5 ACE/AXI specification introduced several performance improvement features which align the AMBA5 ACE/AXI protocol...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Interfaces—If You’re Not First, You’re Last
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett recounts two personal experiences which illustrate the surprising impact of SoC interfaces on customer selection criteria for electronic products...
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How Low Can You Go?
I slipped into an obscure bar in the no-man's-land between Santana Row and downtown San Jose. It was a weekday afternoon. There was only one other person in the bar. "I'm from imec," he said. "Ssh," I...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 9th to 13th 2018
https://youtu.be/xEgjpNWtC1I Coming from Santa Clara Convention Center Theater (camera Sean) Monday: 6 Ways to Get the Most out of CDNLive Tuesday: embargoed until CDNLive Wednesday: embargoed until...
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Semiconductor Specialization Versus Valuation
At SEMICON China, Wally Rhines gave one of the keynotes on the opening day. It was an update on his presentation Merger Mania that I covered a couple of years ago when Wally gave the keynote at that...
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The Evolution of Cadence Help - I
Change, being a fact of life, is inevitable even for software systems. We have come a long way seeing some evolutionary and revolutionary changes in the way our products have developed over years. Not...
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Xcelium's New Save and Restart Saves You Time
You may have heard about the overhaul to the old save/restart mechanism that was in Incisive—but are you aware of what the new Xcelium Simulator version can do? While the old version is still...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Reusing Variables through CSV Export and Import
Do you have some specific variables in a test and wonder if you could have a way to reuse them globally for all tests or locally in a particular test? You will be glad to know that Virtuoso® ADE...
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Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL
50 years ago today was the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey . The movie came about when Stanley Kubrick wrote to Arthur C. Clarke about a movie idea. Clarke was enthusiastic: The ‘really good’...
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