Sunday Brunch Video for 10th February 2019
https://youtu.be/evsNzak23b4 Made at Cadence basketball court (camera Sean) Monday: DesignCon: Cadence Teaches AMI and IBIS Tuesday: Emerging Memories Poised to Explode Wednesday: DesignCon 2019... [[...
View ArticleSPIE 2019: Light Entertainment
SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, with the purpose of “advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light”. What everyone calls "spie"... [[ Click...
View ArticleDVCon Preview: The Year of PSS
The biggest conference on verification is DVCon, which takes place in the San Jose Doubletree Hotel from 25th to the 28th February (yes, the same week as SPIE...and Embedded World...and Mobile World......
View ArticleMWC Barcelona: 5G in Catalonia
The last week of February is MWC Barcelona, formerly known as Mobile World Congress but now officially just initials. It is, obviously, in Barcelona, Spain. If you are in Germany, or Silicon Valley,......
View ArticleEmbedded in Nuremberg
The last week of February is Embedded World (or, in fact, embeddedworld since they fashionably use all lower case). It is 26th to 28th February in the Exhibition Center. It is the same week as MWC......
View ArticleVirtuosity: In-design Electromigration Analysis - An efficient way to make...
Shrinking size of ICs and highly complex layouts containing billions of transistors and miles of interconnects....all of this doesn't sound new now. The industry has been pretty fast in adopting... [[...
View ArticlePresidents' Day Off-Topic: Why You Can't Say "Red Little Riding Hood"
Monday is Presidents' Day, and Cadence (in the US) will be off for the day. Breakfast Bytes will be off too, and as is now traditional, the post before the break is about whatever I feel like.... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 17th February 2019
https://youtu.be/ZuoAfBXsbGw Made in front of the green screen (camera Sean) Monday: SPIE 2019: Light Entertainment Tuesday: DVCon Preview: The Year of PSS Wednesday: MWC Barcelona: 5G in Catalonia......
View ArticleAll the Ps: the Photonics PDK Panel
At DesignCon at the end of January, there was a panel on photonics. The title was Photonics Coming of Age: The Emergence of PDKs . The panelists were: Moderator James Pond of Lumerical (CTO).... [[...
View ArticleBreakfast Buffet for January 2019
https://youtu.be/4N5bx3eR_9U The three highlighted posts for January were: Breakfast Nibbles: Predictions for 2019 AlphaZero: Four Hours to World Class from a Standing Start Persistent Memory Sign...
View ArticleTake a lesson from the Amish...
“Time to design completion” is almost always the primary metric and the cause for the most angst within a design team. Your customers demand that a package design is completed as quickly as possible......
View ArticleRonto and Quecto Are Not Cheeses
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (its initials are BIPM because it is in France, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) recently redefined the kilogram. Meera wrote about it......
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - An Introduction to IC Test and Modus
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, distinguished Engineer Rohit Kapur introduces the concept of scan testing and gives an overview of the Modus DFT Software Solution and Genus Synthesis... [[...
View ArticlePattern Technology Applied to Machine Learning-based Hotspot Prediction
I have been working on DFM solutions for (too) many years and the objective hasn’t change: Detect or predict design-process weakpoints also known as hotspots, to limit systematic yield loss in... [[...
View ArticleWho Is Green Hills?
Cadence announced during their recent quarterly earnings announcement and call that we are acquiring approximately 16% ownership in Green Hills Software for about $150M. Lip-Bu Tan, Cadence's... [[...
View ArticleVirtuosity: A Smart Extracted View
The Cadence® Quantus Smart View is the next generation of the Extracted View in the Virtuoso environment. The Smart View provides the same functionality as the Extracted View, but it uses a... [[ Click...
View ArticleVerifying Power Intent in Analog and Mixed-Signal Designs Using Formal Methods
Analog and Mixed-signal (AMS) designs are increasingly using active power management to minimize power consumption. Typical mixed-signal design uses several power domains and operate in a dozen or......
View ArticleSimulation of LPDDR4X Interface: What Designers Need to Know and Do
System designers are familiar with standard DDR4 RAM components but with the demands on increasing performance and decreasing power consumption in mobile products, LPDDR4 and its variation, LPDDR4X,......
View ArticleBadges—Not Just for Scouts Anymore
Were you a Boy Scout? Or a Girl Guide or Girl Scout? What badges did you earn? Not the digital technology badge, to the left, since that was only introduced in 2014 to replace the computers badge....
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 24th February 2019
https://youtu.be/uUWiysEM4jM Made on the top of building 10 (camera Sean) Monday: dark Tuesday: All the Ps: the Photonics PDK Panel Wednesday: Ronto and Quecto Are Not Cheeses Thursday: Who Is Green......
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