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Cadence Announces Full Cadence Verification Suite Compatibility for Arm-Based...
On October 16, 2018, Cadence Design Systems, Inc announced that, through a wide-reaching system design enablement collaboration, the Cadence Verification Suite is ready for use on Arm®-based...
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ERI: CHIPS and Chiplets
One of the DARPA programs that is part of the Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI) is called CHIPS. This stands for Common Heterogeneous Integration and IP Reuse Strategies. In fact, the CHIPS...
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升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由之9：新设计规则检查
Allegro PCB 17.2-2016 发行版增强了钻孔相关功能 我们为实际的钻孔工具、背钻工具、方形孔、沉头孔等增加了焊盘定义，并增加了钻孔容差。应广大用户需求，背钻位置现在完全支持DRC间距规则。（见 升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由之4：行业领先的背钻能力 ）。 同时更新的还有标准钻孔间距DRC的行为变化。追溯到16.2版本，我们提供了钻孔DRC来支持 “内层无盘工艺”...
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Sunday Brunch Video for 28th October 2018
https://youtu.be/1vU3sg3QlWc Coming from building 8 lab (camera Sean ) Monday: The World's First Working 7nm 112G Long Reach SerDes Silicon Tuesday: Arm TechCon: Get Ready for the NEOVERSE Wednesday:...
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Formal Signoff with JasperGold
At the recent Jasper User Group, I said that there were several themes. For overall coverage of the event, see my post Jasper User Group 2018 . One was post-silicon debug, which I wrote about in the...
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Texas Instruments on Automotive Reliability
Recently, I seem to have been running into people from Texas Instruments (TI) talking about various aspects of automotive reliability. I'm going to try and summarize three presentations that I attended...
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How Do I Know What Functionality to Put on Which Board/Component Placement...
CC BY 3.0 Frank Zheng There’s only so much you can do with a single printed circuit board (PCB). We’ve seen advances in miniaturization and the steady rise in the number of transistors you can squeeze...
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Virtuosity: Is the Coloring Data Compliant with the MPT Flow?
There is no second thought about the fact that compliant designs increase business efficiency and productivity. Designs that are not compliant increase the development life cycle of any product. In...
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"Alexa, What Is HiFi 5?"
"Alexa, turn on the living room light." "Okay." "Alexa, what is Cadence announcing on Halloween morning?" "The Tensilica High Five! Yay." "Alexa, it's the Tensilica HiFi 5 DSP." "Okay." Audio...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays – Machines with Voice UI and Tensilica HiFi 5 DSP
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Ghanekar talks about the new Tensilica HiFi 5 DSP, the first DSP optimized for AI speech and audio processing. This fifth-generation HiFi DSP offers...
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Moral Machines
Have you ever heard of the Trolley Problem ? According to Wikipedia, the Trolley Problem is this: You see a runaway trolley moving toward five tied-up (or otherwise incapacitated) people lying on the...
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Yoga is Passé, the Future Is CurvyCore
Despite CurvyCore sounding like something that you might take classes in at your local gym, it is actually new technology that allows computing and representing non-Manhattan shapes in Virtuoso....
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ERI: OpenROAD
If I had to summarize DARPA's Electronic Resurgence Initiative in one phrase, it would be "getting the cost of design down." As I've said several times this week, the US Department of Defense (DoD)...
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升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由之10：易于使用的改进
我所认识的大多数 PCB 设计工程师跟我有同样的习惯 … 我们有最喜欢的颜色、板层名称、定制的键盘，我们最大的目标是看到一天之内完成了多少条网络布线。我们很少有改变这些使用习惯，—但当我们改变时，要么是因为换了设计人员，要么是由于这些证明是好的流程却不再满足工作要求，我们不得不改变。 您能联想到吗？...
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Sunday Brunch Video for 4th November 2018
https://youtu.be/HCJG-tABZWE Made at Linley Fall Processor Conference (camera Sean ) Monday: Formal Signoff with JasperGold Tuesday: Texas Instruments on Automotive Reliability Wednesday: "Alexa, What...
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China Update: Espionage and Manufacturing Growth
Over the last couple of weeks, I came across various little things about China, none of which justified a blog post all on their own, but it seems a good time to give an update on what's going on over...
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A Diwali with Green Crackers and Cooking Bots
It’s Diwali! My favorite festival out of all the many celebrations that we Indians have through the year. But Diwali nowadays is different from even just five years ago. I wrote last year about how...
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Automotive Summit: Driving an Industry with Electronics
Coming up on November 14th is the Cadence Automotive Summit. This will be held on the Cadence campus (2655 Seely Avenue, San Jose if you need a street adress for your map app). The day starts with...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - How the Cadence 112G SerDes IP Solves the Challenges...
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Wendy Wu explains what NRZ and PAM-4 signaling is all about and the sources of channel loss that make high-speed, long-reach SerDes design so challenging. She then...
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IEDM Preview: 3nm and More
A lot of aspects of EDA and semiconductor are fairly easy to predict: you read off the process roadmap for the big guys and work out the implications for tools, IP, and methodology. Of course, it is...
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