Hearables and Earbuds
Do you have a set of Bluetooth earbuds yet? If not, you will. The iPhone was the first to kill the ubiquitous 3.5mm headphone jack, but many other manufacturers have quietly followed. Of course,... [[...
View Article2019 HF1 Release for Clarity, Celsius, and Sigrity Tools Now Available
The 2019 HF1 production release for Clarity, Celsius, and Sigrity Tools is now available for download at Cadence Downloads . SIGRITY2019 HF1 For information about supported platforms, compatibility......
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Training Insights: Placing Parts Manually Using Design for...
If I talk about my life, it was much simpler when I used to live with my parents. They took good care of whatever I wanted - in fact, they still do. But now, I am living alone, and sometimes I buy......
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 10th May 2020
https://youtu.be/feK4sISKChA Made on Communication Hill, San Jose (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Signoff in the Cloud Tuesday: Wally Rhines: Predicting Semiconductor Business Trends After Moore's Law... [[...
View ArticleWhy Create an SoC?
I've been in the semiconductor and EDA industries for nearly forty years. One thing I've noticed that hasn't changed is that we love our chips and the tools to design them. Designing a... [[ Click on...
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: Help with Electromagnetic Analysis - Part VI
'Virtuoso Meets Maxwell' is a blog series aimed at exploring the capabilities and potential of Virtuoso® RF Solution and Virtuoso MultiTech. So, how does Virtuoso meets Maxwell? Now, the... [[ Click on...
View ArticleChallenges of On-Chip Thermal Analysis in Electronic System Designs
In the beginning of our universe, enormous amount of heat or energy was generated and released during the period of 0 to 10 -43 sec, in theory while backed up by models and measurements, about 13.8......
View ArticleHappy Birthday Florence Nightingale: Nurse, Statistician, Feminist
Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the first woman member of the Royal Statistical Society (in London, the title is unqualified since there were no other statistical societies). I've... [[...
View ArticleIC Packagers: The Choice between Static and Dynamic Shapes
That title might be a touch misleading. We’re not here to talk about why to convert shapes between static and dynamic. Rather, I want to talk about why you should NOT be doing this. Every design has......
View ArticleNew PCIe SI Challenges Conquered Using Clarity 3D Field Solver for PCB
Figure 1: High-performance PCIe-based graphics card There is a trend in the data center industry moving toward heterogeneous computing in order to satisfy workloads that are computationally... [[ Click...
View ArticleVirtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR11 and ICADVM18.1 ISR11 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR11 and ICADVM18.1 ISR11 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads . IC6.1.8 ISR11 ICADVM18.1 ISR11 For information on supported platforms, compatibility......
View ArticleJohn Park's Webinar on Chiplets
Recently Cadence's John Park presented a webinar on Design Methodologies for Next-Generation Advanced Multi-Chip(let) Packaging . Gordon Moore, famous for Moore's Law among other things, also... [[...
View Article3G and 4G: The Internet Arrives
In posts over the last couple of weeks, I covered 1G and 2G mobile: 1G Mobile: AMPS, TOPS, C-450, Radiocom 2000, and All Those Japanese Ones 2G: Mobile Goes Digital Today it is the turn of 3G, 3.5G,......
View ArticleWhy Is the Evolving HBM3 Such a Revolutionary Technology and How Can You Be...
Since 2013, we have seen the HBM specifications being released by JEDEC and companies announcing in the same month HBM products just like magic. How can these companies have a silicon-proven product......
View ArticleSizing Up eUSB2 Verification
USB is one of the most widely used interfaces in the PC market for more than 20 years. Though it remains the same form in laptops and servers, it never stops its evolution in terms of capacity and......
View ArticleCatching up with Higher Ethernet Speed: VIP Supports 802.3ck
Draft 1.0 of 802.3ck, also known as 100G per lane, was finally published by IEEE in Dec 2019. This draft provided the standardization of higher lane speed support for backplane systems, including 3......
View ArticleLibrary Characterization Tidbits: Reuse to Recharacterize - Improve...
In the previous blog, Recharacterize What Matters - Save Time! , Abha told you about recharacterizing a failed or missing arc in Liberate. The Liberate MX Memory Characterization solution also has a......
View ArticleTensilica HiFi DSPs with Dolby Atmos for Soundbars
Do you know what a soundbar is? Years ago, if you wanted to build a good home theater then you'd need a TV projector (or a projection TV) costing over $10,000, and a set of expensive speakers to... [[...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Three Steps to Using Embedded Components
If you think embedding components in a PCB just reduces product size, well that's true but that's only half the truth. Embedding components also increases performance and reduces transmission... [[...
View ArticleSSV 20.1 Base Release Now Available
The SSV 20.1 production release is now available for download at Cadence Downloads . For information about supported platforms, compatibility with other Cadence tools, and details of key issues... [[...
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