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UVM-ML- Managers’ Freedom of Choice
Freedom of choice is a term we hear a lot, especially in the last 10 years. It is defined in wikipedia as “an individual's opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two...
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Is it Time to Verify Your Chips in the Cloud? Part 3 of 3
Welcome back to our series on cloud verification solutions. This is the final part of a three-part blog—you can read part one here and part two here . Now, for the moment you’ve all been waiting for:...
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EE Thermal 101 – Thermal Basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 1 of 3)
Have you ever had a product exceed temperature specifications and wondered what you, as an electrical engineer, can do to solve or mitigate thermal issues in your product? As an electrical engineer in...
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A History of PSS
In a remark attributed to Otto von Bismarck (or perhaps misattributed), it is said that: Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made I think that we can add...
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/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */
The title of this post, you are not expected to understand this , is one of the most famous comments ever. It is in the v6 version of Unix, the mother operating system of Linux, Android,and iOS. Unix...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 9th to 13th 2018
https://youtu.be/d04TXTJKx5o Coming from Cadence EBC (camera Lan Ly) Monday: ESD Alliance Workshop on Digital Marketing Tuesday: DAC: Straight Talk with Lip-Bu Tan Wednesday: Imec Technology Forum US...
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Cadence Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP Stars in NB IoT Applications
Did you make it to MWC Shanghai? I didn’t, but I read about what was hot – narrowband (NB) IoT. Three of Cadence’s customers had Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP demos on the show floor. Xinyi Information...
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Doomsday in 1900 Was a Wednesday
Cadence is off today, so time for an off-topic post. In my post Short Papers last summer, I said: John Conway is probably most famous to computer scientists for inventing the cellular-automaton-based...
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Want to Go on a Second Date?
Yesterday I told you about the Doomsday algorithm in my post Doomsday in 1900 Was a Wednesday . Let's look at some more interesting tricks and stories to do with dates. Days Each Month 30 days hath...
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Thirty Years As One Team
Last week, Cadence was recognized as No 28 in the “Best Companies to Work For” study conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute and the Economic Times. This is the third year in a row that Cadence...
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Overcoming Bias in Computer Vision
At the recent Embedded Vision Summit, Will Byrne gave a presentation Overcoming Bias in Computer Vision, a Business Imperative . He started by pointing out that bias is marring AI's rollout. The three...
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Liberate Trio: Characterization Suite in the Cloud
Years ago, library characterization used to be fairly straightforward. The library had a few hundred cells, and it needed to be characterized at the SS, SF, FS, and FF corners. Those days are long...
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Virtuosity: A Guide to Bindkeys for Interactive and Assisted Routing Commands
You will doubtless have experienced how tiresome it is to access a command or option using a long menu sequence or multiple dialog boxes. And I'm sure you are also well-versed with the benefits of...
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ESD Alliance Workshop on Digital Marketing
I gave a teaser introduction to the Digital Marketing Workshop that the ESD Alliance organized a couple of months ago, with OneSpin’s Dave Kelf (although he has since moved to Breker) and Nicolas...
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A Decade of Building CODECs with High-Level Synthesis
Over the past decade, we have seen a dramatic increase in the size of common video formats. Addressing this has required an evolution in the performance and complexity of video codecs, all the way from...
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DAC: Straight Talk with Lip-Bu Tan
For the last few DACs, every lunchtime the DAC Pavilion has an interview by Ed Sperling with an EDA CEO. These used to be called "fireside chats" but since the time a couple of years ago when Lip-Bu's...
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Why You Should Care About Narrowband IoT: It’s Not Just a Fashion Trend
I read Paula Jones’ recent blog post about NB-IoT applications, and it led me down the rabbit hole: what is narrowband IoT, and why are companies using the Cadence Fusion DSP IP in applications that...
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Whiteboard Wednesday - Tensilica Hardware Safety Kit ISO 26262
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Divya Kalimuthu highlights all of the work products that get delivered to a customer as part of the Tensilica Hardware Safety Kit for ISO 26262....
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Imec Technology Forum US
Every year, the Monday before SEMICON West, imec hosts ITF US, the US version of the imec Technology Forum. The big one is held in Brussels in May, and lasts for two days with an amazing dinner on the...
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AMIQ and Cadence demonstrate Accellera PSS v1.0 interoperability
There’s nothing like the heat of a DAC demo to stress new technology and the engineers behind it! Such was the case at DAC 2018 at the new locale of Moscone Center West, San Francisco. Cadence and AMIQ...
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