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Weekly News—October 23rd 2015
ARM Acquires Carbon ARM announced that it had acquired Carbon Design Systems. They were one of the remaining independent virtual platform companies. They started focused on accelerating RTL models by...
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Emulation: the Key to Virtual Platforms
Between about 2000 and 2010, there were a number of startup companies that attempted to commercialize the idea of virtual platforms: Axys Design Automation, Virtio, VaST Systems Technology, Virtutech,...
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Imagination Dispels 10 Myths About Formal Verification
Do you think that you need to have a PhD in order to use formal verification? Do you believe that formal is difficult because you need specifications? Are you concerned that formal doesn’t scale? These...
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IEEE Computer Society: Automotive Cybersecurity
On the third Thursday of each month the IEEE Computer Society of Silicon Valley has a meeting. Very conveniently for me, it is held in the building 10 auditorium on the Cadence campus. This month's...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—MIPI Protocol Trends
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Moshik Rubin takes a closer look at the latest trends for the MIPI protocol standard. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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The Consolidator Makes a Rare Public Appearance: Hock Tan's Top Ten List
On Saturday I attended the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association (CASPA) annual conference and dinner. You might have noticed that I am not Chinese 可是我会说中文，虽然我不是流利。I seem to have been...
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Berkeley Professor Pushes Agile Methodologies for More Efficient Chip Design
Can agile methodologies typically used in software development bring more efficiency to chip design? For UC Berkeley Professor Borivoje Nikolic, the answer is, why not? “Twenty years ago, technology...
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Is it Hot? Ask Joules
Ever since Pat Gelsinger, then CTO of Intel, shocked everyone with his power graphs, the design world has been more concerned about power than almost anything else. Pat pointed out that if we kept...
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What's Good About Cadence PCB Design and SI/PI Analysis Products? The 16.6...
I’m taking a brief detour from the usual product technical details this week to mention (and in most cases – remind people) that the Cadence PCB Design and SI/PI Analysis Products provide Quarterly...
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Mixed-Signal Symposium: Mixed Means More Digital
Earlier this week was the Cadence Mixed-Signal Technology Summit. Since I was the emcee, I spent the entire day there and saw all the presentations. I am not going to try and detail everything that was...
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Ten Years Ago Self-Driving Cars Couldn't Go Ten Miles
Recently Tesla activated Autopilot for their vehicles, which are equipped with the appropriate sensors. To prepare for this addition, they have been shipping cars and SUVs for about a year with...
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Driving Automotive Vision Applications with the Right DSP
We’re not yet riding in driverless cars, yet today’s vehicles are doing more for us than perhaps Henry Ford could have imagined. From pedestrian detection to driver monitoring, parking assistance and...
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The Phil Kaufman Award Dinner Is Later this Month. Who Was Phil Kaufman?
Every year one person in EDA is honored with the Phil Kaufman Award. As it says on the EDAC website : Presented by the Electronic Design Automation Consortium and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design...
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This Year's Phil Kaufman Award Recipient: Wally Rhines
This year's Phil Kaufman award recipient is Wally Rhines. I already knew the big picture history that Wally did a PhD at Stanford, then worked half his career for Texas Instruments before joining...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Automotive Functional Safety and Reliability Requirements
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Charles Qi talks about automotive functional safety and reliability standards and its importance to the automobile industry and IP and software developers. (Please...
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How Did Cadence Get to Be Good in Analog?
We recently held the annual Mixed Signal Technology Summit . I blogged about it and Christine Young covered the keynote . Cadence has had a leadership position in analog and mixed-signal design for a...
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Where Does 5 Really Mean 30? Process Node Naming
In my first real blog here, about the Cadence/imec 5nm announcement, I asked what was 5nm on a 5nm process. The answer is nothing. Creating the lithography for 5nm is a major milestone but process...
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Cadence Tool Suite Qualified for 22FDX Reference Flow
Let's pull a paragraph out of the joint Cadence/GF press release from earlier today. Cadence collaborated with GLOBALFOUNDRIES on the development of the Process Design Kit (PDK) for the 22FDX platform....
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Tracking Progress on Formal Testbenches at ARM Austin
Need to make a case for using formal in your organization? ARM’s Austin team now has two years under its belt using formal verification. Vikram Khosa, a staff design engineer on the team, has a few...
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The Secrets to Building an Inclusive Culture
Many people ask me how Cadence has more than quadrupled its market cap over the last seven years. Yes, we have improved our business model, our technology and the high tech environment improved. But, I...
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