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CASPA: Innovation with Chinese Characteristics
A couple of times per year, the Chinese American Semiconductor Professionals Association (CASPA) holds a meeting. Despite the name, you don't have to be Chinese to go, and all the presentations are in...
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封装/ PCB系统的热分析：挑战及对策
如今越来越多的封装/ PCB系统设计需要进行热分析。 功耗是封装/ PCB系统设计中的关键问题，需要仔细考虑热和电两个领域的问题。 为了更好地理解热分析，我们以固体中的热传导为例，并利用两个领域的对偶性。 图1和表1描述了电域与热域之间的基本关系。 图1. 电域与热域之间的基本关系（点击查看大图） 表1. 电域与热域之间的基本关系（点击查看大图） 电域与热域之间存在一些差异，比如：...
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Simulation in the Cloud
Yes, despite the blue skies, Fridays are still cloudy. And, yes, this isn't Friday. Due to a migraine out of the blue, Friday got postponed to Monday. When I was at CDNLive Japan, Craig Johnson ran a...
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Of HD Maps, Road Safety And Deep Networks
Cadence India hosted a first-of-its-kind seminar recently that talked about the need artificial intelligence (AI) processing will have for high speed connectivity. The central theme was that the next...
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Lung Chu on Semiconductor in China
I talked Friday about the Chinese American Semiconductor Professionals Association (CASPA) summer event in my post CASPA: Innovation with Chinese Characters . Ajit Manocha, the CEO of SEMI, gave a...
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Virtuoso: The Next Overture – DRD Launches New Interface
The new release of the Virtuoso platform (*ICADVM18.1) offers groundbreaking analysis capabilities and an innovational new simulation-driven layout for more robust and efficient design implementation...
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CDNLive Japan: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Third Dimension
At CDNLive Japan, Tom Beckley gave the keynote Enabling the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) . At one point he announced Sigrity 2018, the latest version of the Sigrity power and signal...
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Beyond Quantum Computing 101: A Modern Oracle
The fires in Northern California and floods in the east coast and the heat waves affecting most of the northern hemisphere this summer have me thinking about climate change and climate modeling. After...
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How to Find the Best SoC Verification Engineers in the World
I joined Verisity Design in 2002, as the Senior Product Manager for Specman Elite . Previously I had launched formal verification products, created a sub-micron static timing analysis product, and...
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升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由
Cadence Allegro 17.2-2016是过去十年中发布的最大版本，于2016年4月下旬发布。由于17.2-2016版本包含数据库更改，通常会出现在零版本中，很多人想知道何时是升级的最佳时间。 如下列出了升级到Allegro 17.2-2016版本的十大理由，以便您更好地理解每一项的价值。 本文将帮助您学会Allegro 17.2-2016版本中的这些新功能，并从中受益。...
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CHIPs in the Cadence Cafeteria
Last week it was the Annual San Jose Intern Showcase, in which the San Jose based interns all set up posters across the back of the building 10 cafeteria for a couple of hours. How Many Interns Are...
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EE Thermal 101 – Thermal Basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 3 of 4)
In part 2 of this blog series we looked at the three different modes of heat transfer and related them to equivalent thermal resistances. In this blog, we’ll use the concept of thermal resistors to...
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升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由之1:先进的柔性和刚柔结合板设计支持
为何要刚柔结合？ 对几乎所有应用，客户一直希望能有更小、更轻、性价比更高的产品。竞争压力也促使设计工程师们以不断增长的速度将这些新产品带到市场。设计工程师们可使用柔性PCB材料（柔性/刚柔结合）来满足小型化需求、代替连接器，以提高产品性能。 (点击查看大图） 有哪些新技术可支持刚柔结合设计？ 制造商对设计的进一步要求已准备好，如在柔性衬底上实现元件安装，支持多层柔性板以缩小尺寸，并提高高速性能。...
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Breakfast Buffet for July
https://youtu.be/JQz3cseZcZc The three highlighted posts for July were: CDNLive Japan: 対応ポートフォリオ Liberate Trio: Characterization Suite in the Cloud Cadence Is MAGESTIC Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 13th to 17th 2018
https://youtu.be/H03oGGaUfQo Coming from Stevens Creek Mini (camera Sean) Monday: 391 South San Antonio Road Tuesday: CDNDrive: Cadence Automotive Solutions Wednesday: 7nm Is a Dress Rehearsal for 5nm...
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Deep Learning and the Cloud
It is an exaggeration to say that deep learning requires the cloud, but the standard way to do the training part of deep learning has become the cloud, especially servers equipped with NVIDIA GPUs. EDA...
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升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由之2:新的实时并行团队设计功能
利用团队设计实现快速设计 无论如何，PCB团队设计总是实现快速设计的最佳捷径。您可以使用Allegro 17.2...
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The Birthplace of Silicon Valley: 391 South San Antonio Road
The birthplace of Silicon Valley really does have an address, 391 South San Antonio Road. In fact, it has two addresses, 844 Charleston Road as well. But the San Antonio Road one is earlier by a couple...
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CDNDrive Automotive Solutions: the Front Wheels
Harold Wilson, then Britain's Prime-minister, once said, "A week is a long time in politics." Well, a year is a long time in the current automotive market. I've written quite a bit about the market in...
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