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How Did 3 Engineers Tape Out an ARM IoT Product in 3 Months?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the hottest buzzword (buzzphrase?) in electronics right now. Everyone's definition is a little different, and each time I see a presentation on IoT the number of units...
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What's Good About the DEHDL Variant Editor? The Secret's in the 16.6 Release!
The 16.6–2015 (also known as 16.6 QIR#9) Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) release contains upgraded capabilities for the Variant Editor – namely: Dynamic viewing of variants in the schematic editor Capturing...
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Is There Market Appetite for PCIe 4.0? A View from Tokyo and Taipei
Coming back from the PCI-SIG Developer Conference Asia-Pacific Tour 2015 in Japan, and the PCI Compliance Workshop in Taipei, it was encouraging to see the engineers’ high level of interest in PCIe...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - High-Speed QSPI Interface Challenges
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Lou Ternullo explains the challenges of designing with QSPI interfaces at higher speeds. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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ARM's Mike Muller Announces a New Core, a New Instruction Set, and Security...
Mike Muller, ARM's CTO, delivered a little history and a lot of security. Oh, and he announced a new ARM processor and a new instruction set. First, the history. In a couple of weeks' time is the 25th...
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Ethernet: Coming Soon to a Car Near You
Ethernet was invented at the legendary Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, based on earlier ideas from ALOHAnet developed at the University of Hawaii (memo to my...
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I Danced with a Nun in a Disco…and the micro:bit
How's that for a click-bait title? But it's true. Back in 1969, the British government created the Open University, or OU. This was a university intended to democratize university education by offering...
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ARM's Simon Segars Promotes Trust, Security, and Privacy for Our Connected World
“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo da Vinci Everything connects to everything else – this idea remains as true today as it did back in da Vinci’s day....
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Palladium Z1, an Enterprise Server Farm in a Rack
If you put together your dream emulation system, it would have: Infinite throughput Scalability from small blocks to the largest SoC your company will work on Very low total cost of ownership (small...
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ARM and Cadence on Miniaturizing Sensing and Power for IoT Design
Designing connected devices comes with the added challenges of small form factor and long battery life requirements. SoCs integrating the processor, radio, and sensors provide an answer, as does MEMS...
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The Paradox of Open Source
Open source software is software where the source code is fairly freely available. I say "fairly" since there are almost always restrictions on its use to ensure that it continues to be open source and...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Basic Principles of Deep Learning
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses the basic principles of deep learning and how it enables the building of electronic systems that analyze massive amounts of data,...
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How to Do Body Bias with GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX and Innovus Implementation System
Last week Cadence put out a press release that the Cadence implementation flow had been qualified on the GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX process. At ARM TechCon last week, Joerg Winkler and Tamer Ragheb from the...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Designer Manufacturing Option? It's NEW in the...
Wow! There is an extremely powerful option available for PCB designers in the 16.6 - 2015 Allegro PCB Editor release—the Allegro PCB Designer Manufacturing Option . This option is integrated into the...
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Technology Transfer: The Stanford/Berkeley Model
At SEMICON West this year, I attended an interesting presentation by Steven Forrest of the University of Michigan on Moving Innovation from the Lab to the Marketplace . He said that one of the biggest...
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The CDMA Story and Qualcomm
When second generation cell-phone technology, GSM, was developed the biggest issue was keeping the computational load manageable for the semiconductor technology of the time. That was the most...
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Marie Pistilli Passed Away
Marie Pistilli, who was injured in a car-crash in October (as I included in my first blog on my first day at Cadence). The crash left her largely paralyzed. She passed away on November 14th. Although...
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A Coverage Time-Saving Tip
How often has this happened to you? You are re-using a part of a previous design in your new design, you are in the depths of coverage closure, both functional and design code coverage. You discover...
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Happy 25th Birthday, ARM
This week is ARM's 25th anniversary. It is actually on Friday, the 27th, but since that is the Friday after Thanksgiving I figured publishing this blog on the precise day was probably less important...
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