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DAC 2015: Cadence Vision-Design Presentation Wins Best Paper Honors
SAN FRANCISCO—A team from Cadence’s IP Group walked away from the 52 nd Design Automation Conference with a big feather in its cap: A best-paper presentation award. DAC IP Track Chairman Mac McNamara,...
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Aargh!!! How Can I Read Arguments from the Command Line Without argv?
Many times a user would like to be able to modify the behavior of a program based on arguments on the command line. Let’s take as an example a user who would like to pass the name of a file which...
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Designing a Google Ara Module and Worrying About MIPI UniPro?
So you've looked at Google project ARA and you have the most brilliant idea for a module that would be the hardware answer to Angry Birds, you take the next step and download the Module Developers Kits...
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Designing a Google Ara Module and Worrying About MIPI UniPro?
So you've looked at Google project ARA and you have the most brilliant idea for a module that would be the hardware answer to Angry Birds, you take the next step and download the Module Developers Kits...
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Virtuosity: 14 Things I Learned in May 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online Support
Cadence Documentation 1. Cadence Documentation Survey Cadence is committed to providing high-quality documentation. To help us shape the future of Cadence documentation delivery, we welcome you to...
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Tensilica Team Wins DAC 2015 Best Paper Award
Cadence’s Tensilica team was honored with the Best Paper Award at the IP track at the Design Automation Conference last week for “Design in the Eye of the Hurricane—Building Optimal Vision Processing...
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DAC 2015 Accellera Panel: Why Standards are Needed for Internet of Things (IoT)
Design and verification standards are critical if we want to get a new generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into the market, according to panelists at an Accellera Systems Initiative...
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Benefits of Designing Your SoC with a Multi-Protocol PHY
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, William Chen explains the many benefits of designing your SoC using a multi-protocol PHY. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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DAC 2015: How Academia and Industry Collaboration Can Revitalize EDA
Let’s face it – the EDA industry needs new people and new ideas. One of the best places to find both is academia, and a presentation at the Cadence Theater at the recent Design Automation Conference (...
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Sensor Processing, How Hard Can It Be?
When I think back back just a few years ago, there were only a handful of devices that noticeably responded to changes in their environment by sensing the presence of something or a change in position....
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Manage All Design Variant Options for Your Package Substrate Seamlessly Using...
Stacked memory is becoming increasingly common in IC package substrates; with that memory being sourced from multiple vendors, managing all the different combinations of your logic die(s), memory...
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Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Help Us to Help You
There is a team at Cadence working on developing the next generation of Cadence documentation and Help interface. After rolling your eyes at this statement, I'd really like you to take 10 minutes to...
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Debugging Multi-Language Verification Environments
As shown in previous blog posts in the Multi-Language Verification Environment series, creating multi-language verification environments is not difficult. Using UVM-ML, we can pass data between...
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Find Everything You Need to Build an Advanced PCI Express 4.0 Solution in One...
The PCI-SIG Developers Conference happening today and tomorrow will be yet another exciting PCI-SIG event that Cadence is proud to participate in. We’ve been attending and showcasing technology at...
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DAC 2015: Jim Hogan Warns of “Looming Crisis” in Automotive Electronics
EDA investor and former executive Jim Hogan is optimistic about automotive electronics, but he has some concerns as well. At the recent Design Automation Conference (DAC 2015), he delivered a speech...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—What Is PCI Express Address Translation Services?
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Gopi Krishna defines and describes how Address Translation Services is implemented in a system. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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Cadence IP for USB Works over Type-C (Proof Inside)
There is no other specification in the history of USB that caused so much discussion and interest as the USB Type-C. The new type of connector, designed to be a jack of all trades, eliminates all flaws...
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EDA Retrospective: 30+ Years of Highlights and Lowlights, and What Comes Next
In 1985, as a relatively new editor at Computer Design magazine, I was asked to go forth and cover a new business called CAE (computer-aided engineering). I knew nothing about it, but I had been...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Innovus Placement Optimization
Hi Everyone, Last time we got a quick look at The Innovus Standard Flow . Now I'd like to show you a bit more detail about some of the major steps. One of the new concepts in Innovus is how placement...
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Multi-Language Verification Environment (#4)—Multi-Language Hierarchy
In the previous posts in this series on Multi-Language Verification Environment, we created a multi-language environment containing UVCs implemented in e and SystemVerilog. This environment is...
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