Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators
I hope you had a great July 4th long weekend if you are in the US...and if you were elsewhere I hope you at least had a good short weekend. Today is the first of three posts on "carry", in... [[ Click...
View ArticleCarry: Babbage's Engines
Yesterday's post Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators talked about how carrying was done in the mechanical and electromechanical calculators of my youth. The most famous mechanical... [[...
View ArticleIC Packagers: Balance Your Designs with Cadence SiP Layout
As designs get more complicated, package substrates are seeing more silicon-driven rules and structures. Substrate styles like fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP) and elements such as... [[ Click on...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Look Before You Leap - Verifying Footprints in the Design...
Look before you leap and seeing is believing - two very apt universal truths, and this post is about these truths in a way; about how these truths are related to viewing footprints early in the... [[...
View ArticleAMBA Adaptive Traffic Profiles: Addressing The Challenge
Modern systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) continue to increase in complexity, adding more components and calculation power to accommodate new performance-hungry applications such as machine learning and... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Cloud-Hosted Design Solution – a Full-Service Cloud...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jeff Critten describes the key benefits of the Cadence® Cloud-Hosted Design Solution in providing a total solution for companies seeking to move... [[ Click...
View ArticleCarry: Electronics
The last two days I have written about carry in mechanical calculating devices. See my posts Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators and Carry: Babbage's Engines . We have similar... [[ Click...
View ArticleNXP: Can Silicon Valley Really Crack the Automakers' Code?
The second panel at the recent NXPConnect was about Silicon Valley versus traditional carmakers (OEMs in car industry terminology). The first panel I covered recently in NXP: Self-Driving Cars:... [[...
View ArticleVirtuosity: Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes – Using Generate Trunks
The next blogs in the Virtuoso Device-Level Routing blog series will enfold the story of how a trunk and a twig became a tree. This blog describes the Trunk Generation feature in detail – which is......
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: TILP! What’s a TILP?
'Virtuoso Meets Maxwell' is a blog series aimed at exploring the capabilities and potential of Virtuoso RF and Virtuoso MultiTech. So, how does Virtuoso meet Maxwell? Now, Virtuoso supports... [[ Click...
View ArticleThe Mercedes Benz Museum and the Invention of the Automobile
Recently, I was in Stuggart, Germany. This is the home to the headquarters of both Daimler-Benz (or Daimler-Chrysler as it now is) and also Porsche. Both companies have fascinating museums. The...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 14th July 2019
https://youtu.be/HO3cViPU6Mw Made at Slovensky Raj, Slovakia (camera Gary Bengier) Monday: Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators Tuesday: Carry: Babbage's Engines Wednesday: Carry:... [[...
View ArticleHow to Verify Performance of Complex Interconnect-Based Designs?
With more and more SoCs employing sophisticated interconnect IPs to link multiple processor cores, caches, memories, and dozens of other IP functions, the designs are enabling a new generation of... [[...
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: Learn Your Moves – We’re Doing an Edit-in-Concert
'Virtuoso Meets Maxwell' is a blog series aimed at exploring the capabilities and potential of Virtuoso RF and Virtuoso MultiTech. So, how does Virtuoso meet Maxwell? Now, Virtuoso supports... [[ Click...
View ArticleWill American Scooters Follow Chinese Bikes?
I spent the July 4 weekend in San Diego. My public service announcement is that if you go to San Diego, the first thing you should do is buy a week pass to all the museums in Balboa Park, and add on......
View ArticleCadence and the Expanding Presence of Women in Tech Conferences
Cadence sponsors several different tech conferences throughout the year. We use these events as an opportunity to allow employees to take a day out of our normal work routine to network, learn, and......
View ArticleIs the Role of Test Chips Changing at Advanced Foundry Nodes?
Test chips are becoming more widespread and more complex at advanced process nodes as design teams utilize early silicon to diagnose problems prior to production. But this approach also is spurring......
View ArticleGLOBALFOUNDRIES After the Pivot
At SEMICON West I sat down with Gary Patton, CTO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, to get an update on what is going on since the “pivot”. The Pivot The pivot was the decision last year to pull back from 7nm and......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Bend in Both Directions with J-Loop Bond Wires
Let’s talk about wire bonding for a quick minute. Still a favorite for many of you, bonding is a cheap way to connect your die to the top layer of your package (or to a lead frame, if that’s what... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays – What is Happening at the USB IF Standards Meetings?
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda talks about the next-generation standard, USB4. What are the benefits? Overlap with existing USB standards? How does it compare with USB 3.x?......
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