Von Neuman Bottlenecks and CCIX
As you may know, I don’t come from a highly technical background—most of what I know about the semiconductor industry is what I have picked up on the job. But I watched a couple of Whiteboard... [[...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons to Go to DAC
The Design Automation Conference is coming up soon. It's in Las Vegas from June 2 to 6 in the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). Rob Aitken I was putting together a post on what I thought were... [[...
View ArticleCDNLive EMEA 2019, Impressions from the Academic Track
CDNLive EMEA 2019 was held May 6-8 in Munich, Germany. Bayern Munich did not qualify for the Champions League this year, so we were completely undisturbed and could listen to presentations, visit...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 19th May 2019
https://youtu.be/cTEPUNpqcRg Made at Samsung HQ (camera Sean) Monday: Bob Smith on ESD Alliance, ES Design West...with Wine Tuesday: After Meltdown and Spectre Wednesday: Vision Q7 DSP: Real-Time... [[...
View ArticleAlberto and the Origins of the EDA Industry
At the 2019 International Symposium of Physical Design, the conference honored Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli with a lifetime achievement award. Alberto was one of the cofounders of SDA Systems,...
View ArticleSamsung's 3nm GAA Process
At the recent Samsung Foundry Forum, HK Kang, the EVP of semiconductor R&D, took to the stage. He's in charge of advanced logic, DRAM, 3D NAND, mask. But that day he was just going to talk... [[...
View ArticleIC Packagers: Expanding Your (Thermal) Repertoire
The process of attaching a component to your package substrate involves many factors, including heat. What happens whenever heat is applied to something? Expansion, of course! How much your die... [[...
View ArticleVirtuoso Video Diary: Comparing Multiple Tests and Sharing Settings
Today's blog highlights the features of the new Multi-Test Editor that is now available in ADE Assembler. With this blog, we have come to the end of the mini blog series that covered a lot of... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - The 4 Steps Necessary for an Effective Cloud-Based...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Craig Johnson identifies the 4 steps to follow to create an effective strategy for moving electronic design work to the cloud. Skip one of these and... [[...
View ArticleI/O Is Faster than the CPU—What Now?
At his keynote at CDNLive Silicon Valley, Andy Bechtolsheim made a throwaway remark that 1600G Ethernet would be a problem since "t he packet rate is just 333 picoseconds so that needs wide... [[ Click...
View ArticleGOMAC: Software Is Never Done
When I was at GOMAC in Albuquerque at the end of March, I ran into a couple of Cadence people and a couple of Green Hills people. Everyone left except one of the Green Hills guys, since he was... [[...
View ArticleHow to Model and Simulate 112Gbps PAM4 SerDes Using IBIS-AMI
With the buildout of 5G wireless networks and the constant demand for bandwidth in cloud-based data centers, serial link data rates continue to skyrocket. The current state-of-the-art serial links......
View ArticleOff-Topic: Syllepsis and Zeugma
It's Memorial Day in the US on Monday, and Cadence is off. So today is the day before a holiday. By tradition, I write about...whatever I feel like. So let's go with figures of speech. Even... [[ Click...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 26th May 2019
https://youtu.be/mx1i55BxSTU Made at Embedded Vision Conference (camera xxx) Monday: Alberto and the Origins of the EDA Industry Tuesday: Samsung's 3nm GAA Process Wednesday: I/O Is Faster Than... [[...
View ArticleIC Packagers: When Being Two-Sided is a Good Thing
With each new generation, demand for smaller , faster , lighter , more efficient is at the top of the requirements list for most things. But, we cannot make things smaller forever. Instead, we need......
View ArticleProtium X1: FPGA Prototyping for the Enterprise
Today Cadence announced the new Protium X1 Enterprise Prototyping Platform. The previous version, the Protium S1 Desktop Prototyping Platform, was the size of a small refrigerator and intended to be......
View ArticleIs The Gig Economy Is Here To Stay?
While the term "gig economy" has been around a long time, it has gained traction in India only since around 2014 when Indian gig economy companies that hire a part-time workforce, such as... [[ Click...
View ArticleThinci Finds Success with the Cadence Verification Suite
On May 23rd, 2019, Cadence announced that Thinci has elected to use the complete Cadence Verification Suite to speed up the verification of their machine-learning and AI designs. Now, Thinci can... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Deep Dive on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping...
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Amol Borkar explains how SLAM works. From the creation of a map of an unknown environment and understanding the orientation of a camera in this space....
View ArticleBoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: Minimum Screen Resolutions and Large Forms
The Cadence® Allegro® backend layout tools are large, complex, highly-capable environments that provide you with a massive amount of functionality. Whether you are designing a rigid-flex... [[ Click on...
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