Charlie Miller: Stopping Cars Being Hacked Instead of Hacking Them
The last day of Arm TechCon opened with Charlie Miller talking about Experiences with and Views on the Future of Driverless Cars Technology . Charlie has appeared in Breakfast Bytes before in... [[...
View ArticleTaking the Trip of a Lifetime
This year, I was excited to be one of 10 Cadence employees selected from 130 applicants to participate in the company’s first international volunteer service immersion program with the nonprofit... [[...
View ArticleSamsung: In SAFE Hands
Today is Samsung's SAFE Forum 2019 at their Samsung@First building on San Jose's First Street. SAFE stands for Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem. Since Samsung Foundry really only has two... [[ Click...
View ArticleDid You “Stress Test” Yet? Essential Step to Ensure a Quality PCIe 4.0 Product
The PCI-SIG finalized the PCIe 4.0 specification with doubling the data to 16GT/s from 8GT/s in PCIe 3.0 in 2017. Products implementing this technology have begun to hit the market in 2019. Earlier......
View ArticleVirtuosity Webinar: Achieving Layout Success with Custom Design Planner and...
Cadence Education Services invites you to learn how to enhance your productivity with new custom implementation flows. Sign up for our FREE one-hour webinar with Senior Principal Education... [[ Click...
View ArticleBook: VLSI Design Methodology Development
There are lots of books on EDA, but many of them are academic texts about the algorithms used inside EDA tools. Rather fewer of them are written for people doing real designs. A recently published......
View ArticleEDPS 2019: Efficient Design and Manufacturing
EDPS, the Electronic Design Process Symposium, took place on October 3 and 4 at SEMI HQ in Milpitas. The theme was Efficient Design and Manufacturing. Camille Kokozaki The meeting opened with a... [[...
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: Help With Electromagnetic Analysis - Part II
'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 ArticleArm TechCon: A Look at 2020 and 2030
The last day of Arm TechCon opened with the return to the event of Charlie Miller. I already covered that in my post Charlie Miller: Stopping Cars Being Hacked Instead of Hacking Them . For my first......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Manage Your Outside Data Sources in One Place
Every package design has data sources. Die data you receive from the IC design team as they send you updated die text files and co-design die abstracts. Your downstream PCB design team may send an......
View ArticleVirtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR7 and ICADVM18.1 ISR7 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR7 and ICADVM18.1 ISR7 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads . IC6.1.8 ISR7 ICADVM18.1 ISR7 For information on supported platforms, compatibility with......
View ArticleVirtuoso Video Diary: Technology File Maintenance Made Easy
Do you use a plain text editor to manually maintain a technology file? If yes, you might know how frustrating and tedious the process can be. The Virtuoso Technology File IDE provides a delightful......
View ArticleSilicon Valley Reinvents the Wheel
Recently the Western Automotive Journalists, or WAJ (I had no idea that was a thing), held their annual Silicon Valley Reinvents the Wheel event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.... [[...
View Article40 Years Ago, "Spreadsheet" Didn't Mean Excel, It Meant VisiCalc
I like to find specific events that change the trajectory of the semiconductor industry, such as June 29, 2007, when the iPhone was announced. Today is the 40th anniversary of another such event.... [[...
View ArticleA Tale from Two Cities: Hear from Two Cadence Interns
Here at Cadence, we welcome students from universities around the world to any number of our 20+ campuses globally. Joining teams across all solutions and services throughout the company, these... [[...
View ArticleThe California DMV on Autonomous Cars
Earlier in the week I gave an overview of Silicon Valley Reinvents the Wheel . That was largely about the factors that would make autonomous vehicle manufacturers successful, and how accepting the......
View ArticleLevel-4 Autonomous Trucks Are on the Road Already
I already wrote two posts about the recent automotive day at the Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley Reinvents the Wheel and The California DMV on Autonomy. Today it is the turn of trucks. Given......
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Going Beyond Just Correct - Improving and Optimizing Design and...
PCB layout editors provide many checks in the form of constraints and rules to ensure your design is correct. You even have the DFM rules to prevent fabrication or manufacturing issues. Then you...
View ArticlePCI-SIG DevCon 2019 APAC Tour: All around Latest Spec Updates and Solution...
PCI-SIG DevCon 2019 APAC tour has come to Tokyo and Taipei this year. The focus is predominantly around the latest updates for PCIe Gen 5 which its version 1.0 specification was just released this......
View ArticlePhotonics Summit and Workshop 2019
Once again Cadence and Lumerical are hosting the two-day Photonics Summit and Workshop. The two events are not interdependent, you can attend either or both. However, they do have a common theme:...
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