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Embedded World 2015: Enabling Automotive System Design with Allegro Sigrity...
Srdjan Djordjevic, senior sales technical leader at Cadence, has been a busy man carrying the banner for automotive design solutions. Earlier this year he attended an automotive congress in Munich...
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What Does It Take To Satisfy Your Need For Verification Speed? You Gotta RAK It!
A few weeks ago I discussed how bigger is (often) better . Obviously, everyone has a need for “ more cowbell ” as well as a need for speed. The questions to ask are: What do you have to do to...
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CDNLive Silicon Valley 2015: A “New Era” in Digital Implementation
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Cadence’s new Innovus Implementation System ushers in “a new era” in physical implementation technology and engineering productivity, enabling faster turnaround times, better power,...
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Mobile World Congress: Two New Audio IP Announcements
BARCELONA, Spain—Mobile World Congress is not surprisingly focused on mobile devices, applications, and services. And the Cadence Tensilica team, which has been attending this event for a decade,...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Cognitive Layering Technique for Low-Energy,...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowan talks about techniques for optimizing power in sensor-based IoT devices and always-on subsystems. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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DVCon 2015: Engineers Discuss Verification Debug Challenges and Strategies
According to some reports, debugging has become the biggest bottleneck in IC functional verification. At a Cadence-sponsored lunch panel at the recent DVCon 2015 conference, three engineering managers...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Cognitive Layering Technique for Low-Energy,...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen talks about techniques for optimizing power in sensor-based IoT devices and always-on subsystems. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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ARM-Cadence IP Deal Propels Engineering Innovation Ahead: Martin Lund
On March 18, Cadence and ARM announced a groundbreaking deal that provides reciprocal access to relevant IP portfolios from the Cadence IP Group and ARM. The agreement grants both companies rights to...
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CDNLive 2015: Cadence Innovus Implementation System Fires Up ARM Cortex-A72...
Two breakthrough developments in the system-on-chip (SoC) design ecosystem were announced in early 2015 – the ARM ® Cortex ® -A72 processor and the Cadence ® Innovus ™ Implementation System . As...
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Link Training: Establishing Link Communication Between DisplayPort Source and...
Link training is the first stepping stone to enabling the communication channel between source and sink devices. This is where the electrical characteristics of the link along with the bitrate are...
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In New York–Boston/Brighton–Mountain View: Modern Formal and Simulation...
Growing up in the '80s can damage your memory – particularly when it comes to bad music. At DVCon 2015 in San Jose I spoke with Michael Theobald, PhD, who is an adjunct professor at Columbia...
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Embedded World 2015: Crossing the Hardware/Software Design Chasm
NUREMBERG, Germany—System design complexity requires new solutions not only to conquer that complexity but keep the pace of design robust. No longer do engineering teams toss hardware or software over...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Highlight Nets Associated with...
With the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release, a simplified method to highlight or de-highlight all nets associated with a component is offered in all applications modes. Hover over a symbol(s), then use...
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CDNLive 2015: Designing 'Always Alert' Devices for the Internet of Things (IoT)
There’s a fundamental paradox in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace. Devices must be “always alert,” yet they must also be low cost and extremely energy-efficient. At the recent CDNLive...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—The Power of WiGig (802.11ad)
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Bob Salem explains WiGig (IEEE 802.11ad), the next-generation wireless communication interface. Bob details how applications including entertainment, small...
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Innovus White Paper: Deep Dive on New Digital Implementation Technology
The just-announced Innovus Implementation System aims—among other things—to call a truce in the long design tradeoff tug-of-war between optimizing power, performance, and area (PPA) and maintaining or...
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Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS 2015) Updates Chip and System...
There are many venues throughout the year where you can learn about individual EDA tools, but very few that focus on challenges and opportunities in the overall IC and system-level design flow. There...
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High-Level Synthesis: Why Now?
March 27, 2015 – With a title like “Why Now?”, you might expect this to be a sales blog, a thinly veiled pitch trying to tell you why you should be using high-level synthesis (HLS) today. But, in fact,...
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Mobile World Congress: Enabling Systems with Sensor Fusion, DSPs
BARCELONA, Spain—We hear a lot about sensor fusion and the applications that it can enable. But conquering the technical hurdles while keeping your project on budget is non-trivial. “What you’re going...
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CDNLive Silicon Valley 2015 Proceedings—Over 90 Presentations Available
If you didn’t make it to CDNLive Silicon Valley this year, or found it difficult to be several places at once, you may be interested in viewing slides from any of 95 presentations (and counting), most...
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