PSA: Americans Will Need Visas for Europe
From 2021, Americans will need a visa for Europe. You read it here first! That means you'll need a visa to visit NXP, Arm, Bosch, Nokia, BMW, Infineon, ST Microelectronics, and many more... [[ Click on...
View ArticleAnd the Winner of the 2019 DVCon U.S. Best Paper Award Is...
Another successful DVCon U.S. 2019 has come and gone, but this year had a particularly interesting highlight. With nearly 900 attendees, a bigger program of tutorials, panels, papers, and posters,......
View ArticleMWC: Voice Enhancement, GPS, Ultrasound, and More
At the recent MWC Barcelona, the conference fka Mobile World Congress, Cadence had a booth, as usual. The focus of what we showed was using Tensilica for various applications relevant to customers......
View ArticleBreakfast Buffet for February 2019
https://youtu.be/pNgkoWQE9A4 The three highlighted posts for February were: Who Is Green Hills? Tensilica ConnX B20 for 5G, and Automotive Radar/Lidar Signal Integrity for 112G Sign up for Sunday... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Solving Scan Compression Congestion Issues with Modus...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Rohit Kapur, Distinguished Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, discusses the topic of scan compression and the layout problems created as compression... [[...
View ArticleDomain-Specific Computing 1: The Dark Ages of Computer Architecture
This is the era of domain-specific computing. Or, to use the words of Dave Patterson and John Hennessey from their Turing Award acceptance presentation, the "New Golden Age of Computer... [[ Click on...
View ArticleTeardrops and Tapers – Improving Manufacturability and Yield Automatically
Teardrops (also called fillets) are the blending area of a cline entry into a pad, while tapers are the gradual transition from one line-width to another along a path. These two core concepts appear......
View ArticleDomain-Specific Computing 2: The End of the Dark Ages
Yesterday looked at how general-purpose computer architecture changed during the period when Moore's Law and Dennard scaling were both working well, and when computer architects were coming up... [[...
View ArticleDomain-Specific Computing 3: Specialized Processors
The last two days' posts have looked at the development of general-purpose processors, and why we are now in the age of special-purpose processors, including one particular type, the GPU. Today,... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 17th March 2019
https://youtu.be/b5eJJcHiOoY Made at Cadence building 9 lobby (camera Sean) Monday: PSA: Americans Will Need Visas for Europe Tuesday: MWC: Voice Enhancement, GPS, Ultrasound, and More Wednesday:... [[...
View ArticleThe World Wide Web Was Born 30 Years Ago This Month
In March 1989 at CERN, a guy called Tim-Berners Lee had an idea about how to get control over the sprawling documentation mess at the organization. CERN is the European Particle Physics Laboratory.......
View ArticleVirtuosity: Maestro Plotting Templates
Waveforms, plots, graphs, measurements, markers... are all a part and parcel of any circuit designer’s everyday life. We have come a long way from the days of Wavescan. Now the much superior tool...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Allegro 3D Canvas—Visualize the Board as You Design
Today’s dense and complex PCB designs require realistic 3D view to investigate the design issues way before they are ready for manufacturing. The complexity of the PCB designs is increasing... [[ Click...
View ArticleRSA: From Helen Mirren to Tina Fey
The RSA Security Conference that took place in the first week of March was bracketed by two women who don't have much connection to security. The main keynote session on Tuesday morning started... [[...
View ArticleVirtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR2 and ICADVM18.1 ISR2 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR2 and ICADVM18.1 ISR2 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads . IC6.1.8 ISR2 ICADVM18.1 ISR2 For information on supported platforms, compatibility with......
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - 5G PHY Use Cases on B20
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Rong Chen talks about the 5G use cases and PHY processing and highlights the B20 DSP features which enable efficient control and DSP processing for 5G... [[...
View ArticleRSA Cryptographers' Panel
One big highlight of the RSA conference is always The Cryptographers' Panel. This year the panel was: Ronald Rivest, the R of RSA. Whitfield Diffie, legendary cryptographer. Paul Kocher, who... [[...
View Article#learntocode
When a few hundred journalists were laid off recently, there was a lot of activity on Twitter (and probably elsewhere) suggesting that journalists should learn to code. One thing that I've... [[ Click...
View ArticleExposing Adaptive EQ in 32 Gbps Receivers
It is no secret that serial link data rates have skyrocketed over the past 15 years or so. What was considered cutting edge back then in the 2.5 – 3.25 Gbps range now appears in stark contrast to...
View ArticleRSA: The Director of the FBI
Christopher Wray, the current (and the 8th) Director of the FBI, wrapped up the opening keynote session, in discussion with Susan Hennessey of the Brookings Institution. Change Your Facebook...
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