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Q&A: DAC 2014 Going in New Directions, Says General Chair Soha Hassoun
The 51st Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014) opens in San Francisco June 1 - and this year attendees will see a reorganized conference with several new tracks. Soha Hassoun, associate professor and...
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DAC 2014—ESL Design Is Dead... Long Live ESL!
Next week the EDA industry is getting together in San Francisco for Design Automation Conference 2014. As I pointed out in a recent blog called " Confessions of an ESL-Aholic ", the scope of electronic...
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Are the ISA Wars Over?
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The relentless gains wrought by Moore's Law, coupled with changing application trends, have effectively ended the instruction-set architecture (ISA) religious wars of yore,...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Offset Routing? 16.6 Has a Few New...
The Add Connect with Offset command in Allegro PCB Editor 16.6 is designed to primarily address the requirement to route with non-standard angles to help minimize impedance discontinuities while...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Trends in the Mobile Memory World
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays, Kishore Kasamsetty discusses the low-power advantage that LPDDR4 provides over the LPDDR1/2/3 in the mobile market.
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DAC 2014 Panels, Papers -- Where You'll Find Cadence
While many attendees of the Design Automation Conference focus on the exhibits, DAC continues to have a top-notch technical program as well. At DAC 2014 June 1-5, Cadence will play a key role in the...
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PCIe Gen4 LIVE Demo at PCI-SIG DevCon Next Week
The PCI-SIG has (FINALLY) released the PCIe 4.0 rev 0.3 specification for members' review, just in time for the annual Developer Conference at Santa Clara, CA, next week (June 4-5).The Gen4 spec was...
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DAC 2014 Cadence Theater – Customers, Partners Outline Challenges and Successes
One of the best things about the Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014) is the ability to hear how other engineers are solving tough IC and system design and verification challenges. And the best...
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Distortion Summary in New CDNLive YouTube Video and at IEEE IMS2014 Next Week!
Hi Folks, Check out this great new video on YouTube: CDNLive SV 2014: PMC Improves Visibility and Performance with Spectre APS In this video from CDNLive Silicon Valley 2014, Jurgen Hissen, principal...
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Gary Smith at DAC 2014: How System Design is Changing Electronics
Analyst Gary Smith looks at the EDA industry and sees a lot of promise-and a lot of change. At his annual Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014) industry briefing June 1, Smith talked about how the...
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Build Components Quickly and Easily with Pre-Defined Escape Routing Using...
When it comes to designing a dense flip-chip die - or even defining a BGA for a complex substrate - the ability to efficiently fan out the pins in the fewest possible layers is paramount. Get this...
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DAC 2014 Keynote: Imagination CEO Charts New Opportunities for Semiconductors
A few years ago the semiconductor industry was all about phones and tablets. Today, emerging markets are opening up a host of new opportunities for developers of systems-on-chip (SoCs), according to...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Improving Hardware Verification with Accelerated...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays, Tom Hackett talks about Accelerated Verification IP (VIP) and how it makes hardware verification more efficient and productive.
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Updates from the UVM Multi-Language (ML) Front
An updated version of the UMV-ML Open Architecture library is now available on the Accellera uploads page (you need to login in order to download any of the contributions).The main updates of version...
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DAC 2014 Dual Keynote: How Automobiles Are Getting Smarter
Don't expect to see completely autonomous automobiles any time soon. But cars are already extremely automated and are getting more so, with dozens of electronic control units (ECUs) that handle...
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DAC 2014 Keynote: EDA Can Tap Into New Revenue Streams
SAN FRANCISCO--Sluggish growth in the EDA industry, which has frustrated vendors for a decade, can be reversed by tapping into new budgets and application areas.That was the message from Wally Rhines,...
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Lip-Bu Tan at DAC 2014: “Systems of Systems” Not Business as Usual
An automobile is a perfect example of a "system of systems," according to Lip-Bu Tan, Cadence president and CEO. In a short visionary talk at last week's Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014), Tan...
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DAC 2014 Keynote: Qualcomm VP Outlines Mobile Computing Challenges
After listening to a Design Automation Conference (DAC 2014) keynote speech last week by Karim Arabi, vice president of engineering at Qualcomm, I have a lot more respect for my smartphone. In his...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor IPC 2581 Data Transfer Standard? 16.6...
The 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor now has IPC 2581 data transfer capabilities. Thanks to Ed Hickey – the Allegro Sr. Product Engineering Manager - for preparing this information below.Read on for more...
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DAC 2014: Computer Vision Coming but Requires Engineering Flexibility,...
Design and architecture flexibility are vital if the electronics industry is to deliver useful, accessible, and affordable computer-vision applications in the coming years, according to a panel at 2014...
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