OFC: The Optical Fiber Communication Conference
OFC is the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (yes, some initials got lost in the acronym...it used to be just the Optical Fiber Conference). It is in San Diego from 3rd to 7th... [[...
View ArticleOpportunities for India in Industry 4.0
The India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) the industry body that represents the industry, had its annual conference – the IESA Vision Summit – in Bangalore last week. There were...
View ArticleTensilica ConnX B20 for 5G, and Automotive Radar/Lidar
I'm sure you've noticed that there is a lot of talk about 5G in the air. Well, "in the air" is the one place it isn't, since it is a new standard that is being brought to market... [[ Click on the...
View ArticleVirtuosity: New Flexible Subwindows
Plots in Cadence® Virtuoso® Visualization and Analysis can be plotted in a window or subwindow. Subwindows allow you to see plots from different analyses side by side. Until... [[ Click on the title to...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Evolution of the ConnX Family with B10 and B20
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays, Pierre-Xavier Thomas introduces the B10 and B20 as a complement to the ConnX family with higher performance and additional features to support new wireless... [[...
View ArticleDesignCon: 5G for V2X Communication
One of the keynotes at the recent DesignCon was by Robert Heath of UT Austin titled 5G for Vehicle-to-X Communications . He started off with an overview of 5G, pointing out that there is a move from......
View ArticleSpectre Tech Tips: Device Aging? Yes, even Silicon wears out
While most of us would like our electronic gadgets to last forever, the reality is that these gadgets have a lifetime. Most of the time, the lifetime of devices is limited by either mechanical... [[...
View ArticleSignal Integrity for 112G
At DesignCon at the end of January, a team from Cadence presented to a standing-room-only crown on Modeling and Simulating 112Gbps SerDes . The team was Margaret Johnston, Manuel Juschas, Bhaskar... [[...
View ArticleInternational Women's Day
Cadence hosts Girls Who Code founder and CEO Reshma Saujani for talk Cadence is excited to celebrate International Women’s Day, which takes place on March 8, with a month-long series of events for......
View ArticleWho Is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Nobody knows. Really. Here's what is known. He (or maybe it's she or they) is the author of the 2008 paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System that got posted to the cypherpunk... [[ Click...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 4th March 2019
https://youtu.be/wjX4hOvb9-I Made at MWC19 Barcelona (camera JD Estella) Monday: OFC: The Optical Fiber Communication Conference Tuesday: Tensilica ConnX B20 for 5G, and Automotive Radar/Lidar... [[...
View ArticleMWC Barcelona
Last week it was MWC Barcelona. As seems to be the fashion, like with CES, MWC just stands for itself, and is no longer Mobile World Congress. I predicted in my preview post MWC Barcelona: 5G in... [[...
View ArticleMWC Part Dos
Yesterday I wrote my first post about MWC19 Barcelona . Today is the continuation of that. Part 2, or dos in Catalan, the local language in Barcelona. It's dos in Spanish too, but numbers in... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Diagnostics – What Makes Modus Diagnostics an...
Cadence distinguished engineer Rohit Kapur introduces diagnostic capabilities in IC testing. Kapur explains the metrics used to evaluate diagnostics tools and discusses why the Cadence Modus DFT... [[...
View ArticleHuawei: Lord Voldemort of MWC
At MWC Barcelona last week, Huawei was like Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series—he who must not be named. During the opening keynotes, people referred to things like "potential... [[ Click on the...
View ArticleVirtuosity: Identifying Those Traces
With the ever-increasing number of simulations required to be run these days, the sheer number of plots can be overwhelming and it can be difficult to figure out which Cadence® Virtuoso®... [[ Click on...
View ArticleCDNLive: Travels with a Bear
It's nearly time for the season of CDNLive events, which starts as always in Silicon Valley, works its way East to Europe, before going across the Pacific Ocean to Asia and working its way West... [[...
View ArticleGin and Tonic: The Drink of Barcelona
One thing that is a big deal in Barcelona is gin and tonic, or G&T as it is usually called in Britain. But unlike in Britain (and the US, for that matter), it is always served in a big goblet... [[...
View ArticleVirtuosity: Reading Vector Files in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis
Prior to IC6.1.8 and ICADVM18.1, to view digital and analog waveforms along with the applied stimuli, it was necessary to run the simulations using both digital and analog solvers. This could be a......
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 10th March 2019
https://youtu.be/7fSgv_dVCA4 Made at my home with a G&T (camera Carey Guo) Monday: MWC Barcelona Tuesday: MWC Part Dos Wednesday: Huawei: He Who Must Not Be Mentioned at MWC Thursday: CDNLive:......
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