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Why Millennial Engineers Should Work for Cadence
Many years ago, when Nokia was at the top of its game—one in every three phones shipped was a Nokia—I chatted to the sister of a friend of mine who was something senior in Nokia finance. I think she...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: What's this Net Connected to?
It’s a deceptively simple question. On a simple schematic design, a net’s connections can be easily traced using the Navigator assistant in Virtuoso® Schematic Editor L . With larger designs it gets...
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RSA Wrapup: Song, Darling, Thrun
The closing session of the RSA conference was a sort of chat-show hosted by Hugh Thompson, who is the RSA Program Chair. He brought up three people, two of who have featured in Breakfast Bytes posts...
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How Do You Pick Your IP?
Last week I talked about what IP is, and why it’s important. ( Click here for a quick review!) This week, after being inspired by a Whiteboard Wednesday given by Tom Hackett, I thought I’d talk about...
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Whiteboard Wednesday - Introduction to ADAS with a Real-Life Example
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Marc Greenberg, walks us through a typical ADAS system architecture and then provides a real-life testimonial on the value of these systems....
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Movie Theater Sound in Your Phone
Dolby Atmos is immersive sound. As Dolby puts it: Dolby transports you into the story with moving audio that flows all around you with breathtaking realism Well, there is some level of colorful...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 25th to 29th 2018
https://youtu.be/-fwwmFE6yUs Coming from Automotiv Elektronik Kongress (camera Robert Schweiger) Monday: Embargoed Tuesday: DAC day 1 Wednesday: DAC day 2 Thursday: DAC day 3 Friday: Embargoed...
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Automobil Elektronik Kongress 2018
Once a year for 22 years the electronic divisions of the European automotive industry converge on the small town of Ludwigsburg just outside Stuttgart. Stuttgart is a big enough city, you've probably...
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App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part III -...
Welcome back to the third installment of a special multi-part edition of the App Note Spotlight, where we’ll continue highlighting an interesting app note that you may have overlooked—Simulation...
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Is It Time to Verify Your Chips in the Cloud? Part 2 of 3
Welcome back to our series on cloud verification solutions. This is part two of a three-part blog—you can read part one here . The high-performance computing (HPC) market continues to grow. Analysts...
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Remember Virtual CAD? DesignSphere Access? What an ASP Was?
Last time I worked for Cadence in the early 2000s, Adriaan Ligtenberg ran methodology services and, in particular, something we called Virtual CAD. The idea of Virtual CAD was to allow companies to...
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Cadence Cloud
Today Cadence announced Cadence Cloud. This is the beginning of a major change in how EDA capabilities are delivered. I doubt that all EDA will move into the cloud—there will certainly be some...
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Improve Your Circuit Manufacturing Yield with Monte Carlo Analysis in PSpice
Q. Individual PCB's cost thousands of dollars. Given such huge investments and millions of those chips, is it possible to quantify those that might fail? A. Monte Carlo Analysis is the answer to your...
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DAC Monday: Amazon's Things, Handel's Megadesign, Cooley's Troublemakers
Another year, and another DAC. As usual, the proceedings kicked off on Sunday night with the welcome reception, and that went straight on to the Heart of Technology (HOT) party, raising money for the...
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The New India: Rise Of The Cashless Wallets
Can India really ever go cashless? This was one of the topics that was discussed at a talk organized recently at Cadence in which we had invited Bhaktha Keshavachar, CTO and Co-Founder of Ezetap Mobile...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to Functional Safety From an IP Supplier
In this weeks Whiteboard Wednesdays Divya Kalimuthu speaks about ISO 26262 from the perspective of a Safety Engineer. She speaks about how the standard is applied in various levels of a supply chain....
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DAC Tuesday: IBM's AI, Jay's Wall Street View, Lip-Bu's Chat, Monster Chips
The second day of DAC needed several clones of me at lunchtime. Lip-Bu Tan's turn in the DAC pavilion overlapped with the digital lunch, which overlapped with a presentation by DARPA on silicon...
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Chip Dis-integration
I was asked the following question recently. No longer are we seeing increasing amounts of functionality being crammed into chips, except under very special circumstances. Chips today are trending...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 2nd to 6nd 2018
https://youtu.be/QoFQImb0xk4 Coming from DAC (camera Sean) Monday: /* You are not expected to understand this */ Tuesday: Doomsday 1900 Was a Wednesday Wednesday: Wanna Second Date? Thursday: Avoiding...
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DAC Wednesday: Denali, Patterson on Architecture, Rowen on Deep Learning,...
Tuesday evening finished with the Denali Party. Since it's 8 years since Cadence acquired Denali, you may have forgotten who they were. They were experts on DDR memory interface IP and verification IP,...
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