What Is Quantum Supremacy?
There are rumors that Google has achieved quantum supremacy. According to Scott Aaronson, my go-to person for all things quantum mechanics, we weren't meant to know about this yet. As Scott says... [[...
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: Package PDK in Virtuoso! How Is it even possible!?...
'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 ArticleIt's Ada Lovelace Day Today
The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day (ALD). This is not just a day to celebrate Ada herself, generally given the honor of being considered the first computer programmer, but it is an... [[...
View ArticleFirst Ever China Integrated Microsystem Simulation and Modeling Master Thesis...
Cadence Academic Network was the exclusive sponsor of the first ever China Integrated Microsystem Simulation and Modeling Master Thesis Contest. The contest was hosted by the Integrated Microsystem......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Undoing Your Custom SKILL Commands
Today, we’ll talk about something simple but still important. For all of you who write your own SKILL code commands to help your teams be more productive, this one’s for you. Any time you are... [[...
View Article4th Tensilica Day(s!) in Hannover: Doubling the Days, Doubling the Fun
The popularity of the Tensilica day events in previous years (last year's presentations , blog ), led to increasing this year’s event from one day to two days of technical presentations and demos... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - The Need for Electro-Thermal Co-simulation
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett explains the need for electrical-thermal co-simulation based on finite element analysis (FEA) to support SoC designs utilizing advanced... [[...
View ArticleThe First Woman to Receive the Kaufman Award
Mary Jane Irwin just got back from a cruise around the Greek islands with her husband of 53 years to celebrate being the first woman to receive the Kaufman award. Yesterday's post was It's... [[ Click...
View ArticleVirtuosity: Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes—Tree Route Flow
This is the last blog in the Virtuoso Device-level Routing blog series. This blog completes the story of how a trunk and a twig became a tree and describes the Tree Route flow and its features....
View ArticleThe Economist on RISC-V and Indian Semiconductors
Our industry is difficult to understand. Most of us resort to imperfect analogies to explain it when we have to. Some of this is because we have a complex supply chain for creation. It is easy to...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Six Tasks To Prepare Board for Manufacturing
You have placed components and routed the board . You are finally ready to send the design to a fabrication house to be manufactured. But wait, you have to perform a few tasks yet. You will start... [[...
View ArticleSensor Fusion and ADAS in TSMC Automotive Processes
At the recent TSMC OIP Symposium, Cadence's Tom Wong presented Sensor Fusion and ADAS SoC Designs in TSMC 16FFC and N7 . These two processes are the "compact" 16nm process and the... [[ Click on the...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 13th October 2019
https://youtu.be/8BM28qwHyUk Made at Arm TechCon (camera Randy Smith) Monday: What Is Quantum Supremacy? Tuesday: It's Ada Lovelace Day Today Wednesday: The First Woman to Receive the Kaufman... [[...
View ArticleArm TechCon: The Keynotes
Simon Segars opened Arm TechCon with a new look, having discovered that real men have beards. This is the 15th Arm TechCon. In this post I'm going to focus on the new things that Arm announced... [[...
View ArticleDATA Pulse: Collaborate and Combine Forces – Allegro EDM Team Design
I often recall a colleague rather wistfully describing his early days in the industry when everyone was on one floor and people could walk over to colleagues' desks to discuss work, the weekend,... [[...
View ArticleMachine Learning in JasperGold
When I was in Tel Aviv for CDNLive Israel, I sat down with Ziyad Hanna to discuss what Cadence calls "Smart Formal Technologies". This is using deep learning techniques to improve formal... [[ Click on...
View ArticleIC Packagers: Optimize Display Settings for Faster Screen Redraws
Many of you are starting to design interposers and very high pin count device packages in the Cadence® SiP and APD tools. They are great tools for this, allowing you a large amount of... [[ Click on...
View ArticlePCIe 3.0 Still Shines While PCIe Keeps Evolving
PCIe has been widely adopted in the electronics industry since its first debut in 2003 (PCIe 1.0 standard release) for wide breach of applications, from Data Center Server, Networking, to Mobile,... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays – Verification with Emerging Memory Models
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, David Peña discusses Cadence’s focus on models for various emerging memory standards. https://youtu.be/_Xps6I6kE0E [[ Click on the title to access the full...
View ArticleVirtuoso Video Diary: Record. Replay. Relax.
Have you ever noticed how tiring it is to repeat yourself? It can actually be exhausting. But if you have a device that can save you hours of meaningless and mindless repetition, go ahead and... [[...
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