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Weekly News, October 9th, 2015
TSMC and Samsung Both in iPhone 6s It emerged that for the Apple iPhone 6s and 6s+, Apple decided to take a dual-source foundry approach with both Samsung and TSMC building the A9 application processor...
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Thanks for the Memory: How MemCon Got Started
It is MemCon on Tuesday. I talked to David Lin to find out how it all started. He was employee #3 at Denali, the first non-engineer. He started as an AE and ended up as VP marketing. Denali was founded...
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Batterygate, the Scandal that Isn't
If you think power isn’t important then you must have been living under a rock for the last decade. But you could try asking Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, too. You have probably heard by now, since you...
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Rules for Radicals: Practical Advice for Adopting Formal
This year's Jasper User Group conference finished up with a dose of realism in a panel session focused on the practicalities of bringing formal techniques into large companies with established flows....
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Memory and Storage: the Wall is Coming Down
It was MemCon this week. Three keynotes, three parallel tracks each with four presentations. An exhibition. In one day you can soak up the state of the memory world by osmosis. Christine Young...
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Goldilocks and the Three Ways
The two obvious ways to implement a complex algorithm are to write a large amount of RTL and synthesize a specialized hardware block, or write a large amount of C and run it on a microprocessor. The...
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Weekly News—October 16, 2015
Largest Tech Merger Ever Earlier in the year Avago announced that it was acquiring Broadcom for $37B (the merged company will lose the Avago name and the whole company will be Broadcom). This week an...
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IEEE Elects EDA Professional as President
When I lived in England, newspapers had a tradition of not mentioning other newspapers by name, they would just say "in another newspaper." In that tradition, I sat down to lunch last week with Karen...
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Q&A: John Lupienski on How Mobile and IoT Designs are Driving IP Requirements
John Lupienski III is a product engineering director at Cadence, where he leads a team that, as the primary technical support interface to the company’s PHY IP R&D group, supports customers in...
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One Connector to Rule Them All: USB Type-C
The original USB connector seems to be the only connector where it is always the wrong way up. Everyone has had the experience of trying to insert a USB connector, finding it won't go, turning it over....
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MIPI CSI-2—What's Cooking with the Most Popular Mobile Camera Interface?
The MIPI CSI-2 (Camera Serial Interface) specification is celebrating its tenth birthday these days and the party is quite big with millions of mobile devices out there, passing every pixel from the...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Cadence IP Solution for USB Type-C
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda talks about the components of the Cadence IP solution for USB Type-C, including USB Type-C port controller, multi-protocol PHY, DisplayPort...
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I've Got My Personal Portable Communications Equipment. But Where's My...
You have probably seen the Back to the Future trilogy. In Back to the Future II Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to a day in the future. When they made the movie in 1989, they picked a day 25 years...
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Lowering Energy Consumption in Always-on IoT Designs
As a lead design engineer on the Tensilica R&D team, Dr. Avinash Lingamneni certainly understands the trials and tribulations of developing always-on applications for the Internet of Things (IoT),...
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Performance, Power, Area. It's All You Need to Know—or Is It?
Whether it's in a technical paper, a pundit's article, or a live discussion with a customer, the term PPA—power, performance, and area—is always in the discussion. Of course, PPA is not simply one...
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Virtuosity: Things I Learned in August and September 2015 by Browsing Cadence...
Cadence Online Support Features Setting the Release Preferences for your search results: The documents in the search results page often support multiple releases. You now have the option to set...
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How Is Google So Good at Recognizing Cats?
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a key technique for image recognition. As Wired Magazine put it a few years ago, “Google’s Artificial Brain Learns to Find Cat Videos.” “Artificial Brain” may...
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Virtuosity: Things I Learned in June and July 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online...
Cadence Online Support Release Highlights July 2015 Some nice enhancements to the COS experience. Ability to set preferred release for searching, better interface for navigating search results in...
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Lawyers, Guns, and Money: An Evening with EDAC on Patents
Next Thursday, October 29, 2015, the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) is organizing an evening on patents and patent litigation . This is partially due to the US Patent and Trademark...
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Cadence Is the #21 World’s Best Workplace!
We are honored to be named #21 on FORTUNE’s list of the Best Global Companies to Work For in 2015. Our amazing team around the world is at the heart of our culture, innovation, and success. And to...
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