DATA Pulse: Know How to Effectively Manage Part Obsolescence
You know what it's like, right? Those sudden urges to declutter the house. Well, during one such exercise, my niece stumbled across some cassettes and looked at them like they were from some... [[...
View ArticleDesigning a Wi-Fi HaLow Baseband in Less than Six Months
At CDNLive EMEA last month, Stefan Stanic of Methods2Business (M2B) presented The Challenge of Designing a First-TIme-Right Wi-Fi HaLow Baseband in Less than Six Months . WI-FI HaLow is a standard......
View ArticleVirtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR4 and ICADVM18.1 ISR4 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR4 and ICADVM18.1 ISR4 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads . IC6.1.8 ISR4 ICADVM18.1 ISR4 For information on supported platforms, compatibility with......
View ArticleIEEE WIE ILC and Diversity
Sultry, sultry, Austin, Texas. This was the site of the IEEE WIE ILC conference held on May 23-24, and I had the privilege of attending both days, along with 1400 other attendees. From the IEEE WIE......
View ArticleDAC: The View from Wall Street
Jay Vleeschhouwer did his annual...well, he did it last year, too... View from Wall Street in the DAC Pavilion. I've known Jay for years since I spent a couple of years being the person in... [[ Click...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Passport Partners Program Expands Customer Cloud...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Craig Johnson explains the purpose of the Cloud Passport Partners Program and how customers can now connect with authorized and knowledgeable service... [[...
View ArticleAssessing Bias in Computer Vision Systems
I came across a fascinating document from Facebook on methods to assess bias in computer vision systems. At F8 2019 (their user conference), they highlighted some of the things that they are doing...
View ArticleExploring AI / Machine Learning Implementations with Stratus HLS
A lot of AI design is done in software and, while much of it will remain there, increasing numbers of designs are finding their way into hardware. There are multiple reasons for this including the......
View ArticleWhat Is 5G?
At the DAC theater, Cadence's Ian Dennison talked about 5G Intelligent System Design . He repeated his presentation internally at Cadence a couple of days later. Plus, I sat next to him at both... [[...
View ArticleBoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: How to Split a Viastack
Today’s compact and powerful devices require small and high-density PCBs. Tight routing around densely packed components is thus indispensable, but cannot be achieved using conventional blind-buried......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Constructing Components from Manufacturing Data
We’ve all been there. The only (or most accurate) data that we have for a component is the manufacturing data from another process. It could be a GDSII file for the top-layer metal of an IC or a... [[...
View ArticleWhy Is 5G Such a Big Deal?
Yesterday was my post What is 5G? which is the first half of my introductory look at what 5G really is, based on Ian Dennison's DAC presentation 5G Intelligent System Design . Today we pick up... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 23rd June 2019
https://youtu.be/6GUoDQkSoLY Made at Paris Air Show (camera Simon Fielding) Monday: Designing a Wi-Fi HaLow Baseband in Less than Six Months Tuesday: DAC: The View from Wall Street Wednesday:... [[...
View ArticleMaster of ‘e’? Now You Can Prove It!
The knowledge and experience of using Specman/ e tells everyone that you have acquired profound verification methodology. But how do you showcase this knowledge to your company, colleagues, and... [[...
View ArticleIntel and PSS...and Simics, a Blast from My Past
One of the newest standards in verification is PSS, the Portable Stimulus Standard. Whereas UVM is focused on verification of blocks and chips, PSS addresses how to do verification at the system... [[...
View ArticleInternational Symposium on Physical Design 2019
The ISPD contest is a well-known competition in the EDA field, where the main idea is to have EDA companies share the industrial problems they are facing with the academic community to drive... [[...
View ArticleTales from DAC: A Meeting of Security's Heroes at the Accellera Luncheon...
Figure 1: The panel and crowd Citizens—the tech world is in trouble. With the ever-expanding size and complexity of chip designs, security hasn’t kept up. Old techniques for securing a design are no......
View ArticleCadence: A Great Place to Work—Asia
For the first time ever, Great Place to Work ranked Cadence as the #15 Best Place to Work in Asia. Cadence was chosen from a pool of nearly 1,200 organizations based on how our employees in Greater......
View ArticleBoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: Take a Walk on the Wild Side...with...
We have had this question before, so it’s a good one to remind everyone of in case you’re not aware of it. What I usually hear asked is how can you have the tool automatically pan/roam when your... [[...
View Article12% Is Not Enough: Women in Engineering
At CDNLive EMEA, there was a Women's track and the first presentation was by Elizabeth Donnelly, the CEO of the Women's Engineering Society (of the UK), titled 12% Is Not Enough, Changing... [[ Click...
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