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Never Lose Your Way Again With These Nifty Maps
CDNLive India took place a few weeks ago and we are just trying to catch our breath! If you missed it, I'm going to be posting two cool videos before the weekend with the highlights. Here are two blogs...
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RF Design with Cadence Virtuoso and National Instrument's Axiom
When cell-phones first became a consumer product, a VP of Nokia drew me an upside-down triangle, with radio at the top. chips in the middle, and the little point at the bottom being software. When...
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Little Boxes on the Hillside
There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one…—Malvina Reynolds In the cubicle environment, one often overhears conversation. I usually tune out conversation that is irrelevant to...
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Winning With Fewer PCBs
By John Burkhert Jr The business world keeps score with dollars and cents. The overhead cost of layout and material cost of bare boards are a significant drain on capital. Face it; Printed Circuit...
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GTC: GlobalFoundries Pivots
Tuesday was the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference GTC. GF announced earlier in the month that they are dropping 7nm and are focusing all their effort on differentiated processes, in particular FDX...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October1st to 5th 2018
https://youtu.be/dRLFFPgTjRM Coming from Times Square NY (camera Carey Guo) Monday: GlobalFoundries Executive Team Explain the Pivot Tuesday: EDPS: Experience Teaching Undergraduates EDA Wednesday:...
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CDNLive India 2018...err...Recorded, Not Live
Better late than never! If you missed CDNLive India 2018 which took place on Sep 6 & 7, here are two fun videos that cover all the highlights. Day 1 https://youtu.be/QDuYxjGIYmQ Day 2...
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Figure-Skating Champion Wins Kaufman Award
I never went to journalism school, but people get taught to open biographical articles with some anecdote to hook the reader's attention. Such as our subject got kicked out of school in 3rd grade. Or...
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升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由之6：平滑的弧形走线节省了柔板设计的走线设计时间
平滑的弧形走线是 Cadence ® Allegro ® PCB Designer 17.2-2016的新功能 ，通过更有效的方法为用户提升设计效率。 这一新功能在弧形走线的基础之上又得到了很大的提升 ，减少了对话框，引入了一个简单的基于图形界面的双状态点击使用模型，也可以 推挤现有的连接线 （ 即使是弧形走线 也可以实现推挤）。非轮廓和轮廓走线之间的转换也很平滑。 （点击查看大图） 增强的弧形走线...
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Taiwan Industry Celebrates IC 60th Anniversary
In 1958, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments invented the integrated circuit, a historical, integral part of modern computing. This year happens to be the IC 60th anniversary of IC creation. Taiwan, as the...
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GlobalFoundries Executive Team Explains the Pivot
At the recent GlobalFoundries Technology Conference GTC there was a press and analyst lunch. Tom Caulfield (CEO), Gary Patton (CTO), and Bami Bastani (SVP of the business units) answered questions, Tom...
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I'm a Doctor, Not an Engineer!
…to which Montgomery Scott immediately replied, “Now, you’re an engineer.” —Star Trek Original series, season 2, episode 4: Mirror, Mirror , October 6, 1967 The original Star Trek was trailblazing in...
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EDPS: Experience Teaching Undergraduates EDA
At the recent EDPS, Cadence's Patrick Groeneveld presented about a course that he and other EDA luminaries taught at Stanford last year. I say "Cadence's Patrick" since he currently works here, but he...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Significance of Sparsity in Neural Networks
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Megha Daga discusses how handling sparsity positively affects bandwidth, performance, and power efficiency. https://youtu.be/pgouTDPhjlQ
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TSMC OIP Virtual Design Environment
Today, it is TSMC's 2018 Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum in the Santa Clara Convention Center. TSMC has two big events each year (in the US, they also take them on the road to other...
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The Day a PCB Was Born
By John Burkhert Jr I want to take you back to a project that highlights a few twists as all good projects will. 17 years ago I was presented with 20 pounds of potatoes and a 10 pound bag. The bag was...
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Breakfast Buffet for September 2018
https://youtu.be/aWnEDVUQwoY The three highlighted posts for August were: The New Tensilica DNA 100 Deep Neural-network Accelerator CDNLive India Ambit Design Systems Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 8th to 12th 2018
https://youtu.be/0CNhCWOxPKY Coming from TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum, Santa Clara (camera Seena Shankar ) Monday: The History of ISO 26262 Tuesday: ESD Alliance Digital Marketing Workshop Wednesday:...
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PCB West: History of PCB
At PCB West recently, Wally Rhines gave one of the keynotes. It was titled Is Past Prologue? The Future of the PCB Design Industry . Wally said that it wasn't really his title, it was given to him by...
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EXTRA: Did the Chinese Really Attach Rogue Chips to Apple and Amazon's...
Today, Bloomberg's BusinessWeek (BW from now on) published a story The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate US Companies . The big question is whether they actually did or not. If they...
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