Virtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing - Grid Generation
I'm back with my next post in the Virtuoso ® Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing series. In my first post , I spoke about the need for the Automated Device-Level Placement and... [[ Click on...
View ArticleMaglev Trains
Earlier this week I was in Shanghai for CDNLive China. More about what was said there next week. Today's post is about getting to the hotel where CDNLive was held from the airport. Doesn't... [[ Click...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 18th August 2019
https://youtu.be/xGAnEry49nw Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Arm on Autonomous Automotive Tuesday: Black Hat: Phishing on Gmail Wednesday: CDNLive Taiwan Thursday: Black Hat: Glitching......
View ArticleDATA Pulse: Playing Favorites with Parts—Influencing Design Part Selection...
Life is full of decisions - what college major to opt for, which career path to follow, whether to move cities for a job or stay put, whether to switch career paths midstream for a more fulfilling......
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: Here's All You Must Know to Create 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 ArticleHOT CHIPS 2019
This week it is HOT CHIPS. It has moved from the Flint Center at De Anza College where it has been for years, and is now in the Stanford Memorial Auditorium, which I don't believe I've ever... [[ Click...
View ArticleCDNLive India 2019 Preview
CDNLive India is coming up next week. It will be August 28 and 29 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Marathahalli in Bengaluru (fka Bangalore). I will be attending as usual so you can expect some Breakfast......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Choosing the Right Netlist to Match Your Needs
Netlists. Everyone needs them! But what you are using your netlist for can have a significant influence on just what KIND of netlist you want. Fortunately, the Cadence® SiP tools offer formats... [[...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Six Things to Do Before You Actually Place...
PCB design is like conducting a full-fledged orchestra. In many creation myths, a supreme being sings the world into existence - take the fourteen Ainurs of Lord of the Rings, for example. Well,... [[...
View ArticleTSMC Museum of Innovation
When I was in Taiwan for CDNLive Taiwan, I visited the TSMC Museum of Innovation, which is near TSMC's headquarters in Hsinchu (and also near the Cadence Taiwan office). If you are interested in... [[...
View ArticleSPECTRE 19.1 Release Now Available
The SPECTRE 19.1 release is now available for download at Cadence Downloads . SPECTRE 19.1 For information on supported platforms, installation information, how to access product documentation, and......
View ArticleAutomotive Security in the World of Tomorrow - Part 1 of 2
Autonomous vehicles are coming. In a statistic from the U.S. Department of Transportation , about 37,000 people died in car accidents in the United States in 2018. Having safe, fully automatic... [[...
View ArticleHOT CHIPS: The Biggest Chip in the World
At HOT CHIPS earlier this week, Cerebras announced the biggest chip in the world. Sean Lie spent the first half of his presentation talking about how deep learning algorithms get more effective with......
View ArticleVirtuosity: An Introduction to Modgen
Rapid advancements in the semiconductor industry have resulted in an ever-increasing need for analog layout automation. Analog circuits often use structures such as current mirrors and differential......
View ArticleAutomotive Security in the World of Tomorrow - Part 2 of 2
If you missed the first part of this series, you can find it here . So: what does Green Hills propose we do? The issue of “solving security” is, at its core, impossible—security can never be 100%... [[...
View ArticleHOT CHIPS: Microsoft Hololens 2
The very last presentation at HOT CHIPS earlier this week was by Elene Terry of Microsoft about The Silicon at the Heart of the Hololens 2. She said that her talk was about why they did custom... [[...
View ArticleVirtuosity: An Introduction to Modgen
Rapid advancements in the semiconductor industry have resulted in an ever-increasing need for analog layout automation. Analog circuits often use structures such as current mirrors and differential......
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 25th August 2019
https://youtu.be/RUWt6mOAUUU Made at EBC (camera Sean) Monday: HOT CHIPS 2019 Tuesday: CDNLive India 2019 Preview Wednesday: TSMC Museum of Innovation Thursday: HOT CHIPS: The Biggest Chip in the... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 18th August 2019
https://youtu.be/xGAnEry49nw Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Arm on Autonomous Automotive Tuesday: Black Hat: Phishing on Gmail Wednesday: CDNLive Taiwan Thursday: Black Hat: Glitching......
View ArticleHOT CHIPS: Chipletifying Designs
At HOT CHIPS last week, one of the themes that ran through several of the presentations, including both keynotes by AMD and TSMC, was that optimal system design requires using chiplets and 3D... [[...
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