Whiteboard Wednesdays - When it Comes to Cloud-Based Design, One Size does...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett describes how different types of companies possess different combinations of 3 key assets needed for successful cloud-based electronics... [[...
View ArticleGeoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio Win 2019 Turing Award
This year's Alan Turing Award goes to Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio. According to the New York Times, they are the "Godfathers of Deep Learning", presumably in the... [[ Click on the...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Validating Your Shapes
Your design is near completion. Except that you’ve got an area of your plane shape that stubbornly refuses to fill, and you don’t know why. Understanding the rules involved and the tools available...
View ArticleBest Paper Award at LATS2019 for Zhan Gao
The IEEE Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS) is an annual forum attended by professionals and technologists from all over the world. It is an event where various aspects of system, board, and... [[...
View ArticleCadence Announces Continued Partnership With Northrop Grumman
On March 28th, 2019, Cadence Design Systems announced an expanded collaboration with Northrop Grumman centering on advanced-node SoC projects. Cadence’s cutting-edge verification tools are combining......
View ArticleRSA: Bruce Schneier
I have been following Bruce Schneier for a long time. He literally wrote the book on cryptographic algorithms, Applied Cryptography , in two editions, both of which I own. He has run an email... [[...
View ArticleVirtuoso Video Diary: Checking EM Compliance Before Creating Layouts
Have you ever wished that you could check your designs for electromigration (EM) compliance before creating the layouts? If yes, then there's nothing wrong about that. It would be like checking... [[...
View ArticleRSA: Public Interest Technologists
Yesterday, I wrote about the first half of Bruce Schneier's keynote at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco. Today, the second half, and the audience Q&A. If you work in security in any... [[...
View ArticleSimple Things You Can Do To Get Ahead In The Workplace
Recently we were lucky to have two of the women vice presidents at Cadence – Karna Nisewaner from the Legal team and Alessandra Costa who leads the Field Engineering team in North America – visit... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 7th April 2019
https://youtu.be/DUu3M30lilE Made at CDNLive Silicon Valley (camera Sean) Monday: CloudBurst: The Best of Both Worlds Tuesday: Bringing Clarity to System Analysis Wednesday: Geoff Hinton, Yann...
View ArticleDriving Dangerously
I've written a few times before about the fragility of neural networks, for example in last year's post Fooling Neural Networks . There is an unstated assumption underlying the training of... [[ Click...
View ArticleBarefoot in a CloudBurst: Tempus on 2000+ CPUs
Barefoot Networks gave a couple of presentations at the recent CDNLive Silicon Valley. Both presentations were about the latest member of their Tofino family of ASICs. This networking chip has a... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - 3X Faster Design Closure with Quantus Integrated...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Senior Product Engineering Manager Varun Raj Garapati outlines why traditional metal fill insertion, usually at the signoff stage, is not recommended... [[...
View ArticleVirtuoso Video Diary: Tune In to the MPT Video Channel
If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Then Is a Video Worth a Million? In today’s world, indeed it is true! If you want to refresh your algebraic concepts, or bake a bagel like a pro, or learn... [[...
View ArticleTI's Experience Taping out with Pegasus
At the recent CDNLive Silicon Valley, Kyle Peavey of Texas Instruments (TI) presented Cadence Pegasus Physical Verification: A Customer Tapeout Experience , along with Cadence's Digo (Dibyendu)... [[...
View ArticleSuperhuman Photonic Design
I recently came across an article titled Generative Design Could Radically Transform the Look of Our World . No, the article wasn't about semiconductor design... at least not yet. It was about... [[...
View ArticlePower Plane Loop Inductance Guidance for PDN Designers
Gaining an understanding of power plane loop inductance is important for efficient printed circuit board (PCB) designs. Unfortunately, board designers too often use inappropriate rules of thumb when......
View ArticleBrad Brim and the History of Signal Integrity
I sat down with Brad Brim recently. He was retiring from Cadence literally the following day. He has worked on signal integrity his entire career, which spans the period from signal integrity not... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 14th April 2019
https://youtu.be/ml397HeOHcc Made at Steve Brown's Tesla in Cadence parking lot (camera Steve Brown) Monday: Driving Dangerously Tuesday: Barefoot in a CloudBurst: Tempus on 2000+ CPUs Wednesday:... [[...
View ArticleQualcomm: Bring Me My Snapdragons
I'm writing this before the Game of Thrones season opener last night. But since last season ended with an undead dragon demolishing the wall, I'm pretty sure dragons will play a big part.... [[ Click...
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