Sunday Brunch Video for 4th August 2019
https://youtu.be/5b0hczb-5FI Made at building 11 (camera Sean) Monday: Ludwigsburg: It's All About Return-on-Investment Tuesday: 5G in US vs Rest-of-World Wednesday: IEEE Unified Power Models... [[...
View ArticleAutomotive Industry Basics
A couple of weeks ago Cadence held its second Automotive Summit here on the Cadence campus in San Jose. I will cover some of what was said over the next week or two, but I thought it might be good...
View ArticleMary Meeker: How Much Is the Internet Growing?
Every year Mary Meeker products a big presentation on Internet Trends. And when I say big, I mean it. This year the presentation has 334 slides. In previous years, going back to 1995, Mary was a... [[...
View ArticleBoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: How to Rename Reference Designators Using...
Components on a board are often placed per their functional group and hence their reference designators are all jumbled up. It is a common practice to rename reference designators before sending out......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Six Steps of IC Packaging
In fourteen posts in that many weeks, the IC Packagers team has tried to live by the motto that Tyler spelled out in the first post of the series, " We'll try to cover all the topics that... [[ Click...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays: Inductance Extraction for Digital Designs
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays, Cadence expert Varun Raj Garapati explains how designers can address inductance effects on clocks, especially on digital SoCs. Using Quantus Extraction Solution......
View ArticleMary Meeker: Fulfillment, News, and Money
This is the second post (of three) about Mary Meeker's 2019 report on Internet Trends. The first was yesterday . You should read that post first since this one simply picks up where that one left... [[...
View ArticleGraduating Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code (GWC) is on a mission. Recognizing the enormous gender gap in technology, GWC is working to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does—and offers free programs for...
View ArticleMary Meeker: Security, Gigs, Healthcare, China
This is the third (of three) posts about Mary Meeker's 2019 report on Internet Trends. The first was on Monday . The second was yesterday. If you don't know who Mary Meeker is or what this... [[ Click...
View ArticleAImotive: Shifting Gear in Automotive
At the recent Cadence Automotive Design Summit, Laszlo Kishonti, CEO of AImotive, presented From Walled Gardens to Collaboration: Shift in the Automated Driving Industry . AImotive is based in... [[...
View ArticleVirtuoso Video Diary: Stimuli with Variable Sweeps Videos and Rapid Adoption Kit
You're probably thinking, "wasn't there a recent blog on the new Stimuli Assignment form in ADE." Well yes, that's right, but we wanted to offer more functionality so we now... [[ Click on the title to...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 11th August 2019
https://youtu.be/ZXa5ZZzAWXs Made at Cadence campus (camera Sean) Monday: Automotive Industry Basics Tuesday: Mary Meeker: How Much Is the Internet Growing? Wednesday: Mary Meeker: Fulfillment,...
View ArticleArm on Autonomous Automotive
Let me start this post with a brief history of autonomous driving. Most people date the start of the autonomous driving era to 2004, with the Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert over a 150-mile... [[...
View ArticleArm on Autonomous Automotive
Let me start this post with a brief history of autonomous driving. Most people date the start of the autonomous driving era to 2004, with the Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert over a 150-mile... [[...
View ArticleBlack Hat: Phishing on Gmail
A few weeks ago I wrote a post Passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication about the scale of attacks on cloud providers and other services. At the recent Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas,......
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Five Ways to View Your Design in 3D Canvas
Cadence® Allegro® 3D Canvas is an advanced built-in 3D viewer, available with PCB Editor, that has the potential to showcase 3D view of a single object on a board as well as a complete... [[ Click on...
View ArticleIC Packagers: Grouping Items with Symbol Instances
Library symbols are one of the staple building blocks of EDA design. Whether they are cells for an IC, dies and discretes for a package, or off-the-shelf parts to place on a PCB, we all use them... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - An Introduction to Palladium Cloud
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Bennet Le provides an overview of the Cadence® Palladium® Cloud Solution and explains how virtually every company developing SoC designs can... [[ Click on...
View ArticleCDNLive Taiwan
I haven't been to Taiwan since the last time I worked for Cadence in the early 2000s. At that time, I was running Custom IC, which also included physical verification—we were structured a bit... [[...
View ArticleBlack Hat: Glitching Microcontrollers
As a paid-up member of the semiconductor community, the most interesting presentation I saw at Black Hat was about glitching microcontrollers. One way that chips are vulnerable to security issues is......
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