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10th Cadence Design Contest 2015 Successfully Organized in India
Cadence India organized the 10th edition of the Cadence University Program’s flagship initiative - Cadence Design Contest, in 2015. Launched in 2006, the Cadence Design Contest provides engineering...
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Applications Down to Transistors: System Design Enablement
Last year Dan Nenni and I wrote a book on the semiconductor industry through the ages called Fabless . Actually I did most of the writing and I think Dan thought he had it easy. He just had to get...
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Face Detection, Virtual Surround Sound, and USB Type-C Demos at CES 2016
Going to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) January 6-9? Carve some time out of your schedule to meet with Cadence’s technical experts, who will be on hand to share with you a variety of demos: Dolby...
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Cadence Tech Days at ITMO and MIET
Cadence Academic Network organizes TechDays in Russia to promote leading-edge technologies and methodologies at universities and to foster contacts to the local aligned companies. We know that students...
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Why Agile Software Methodologies Can Improve the Chip Design Process
UC Berkeley Professor Borivoje Nikolic sees agile software methodologies as an answer to infusing the chip design process with greater efficiency. “Twenty years ago, technology people had fun making...
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Rob Aitken of ARM Research on System Design
I wrote yesterday of how there is a transition going on as system companies discover that they need to do their own semiconductor design if they are to have products that are differentiated from their...
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Using Constraints Generation When Designing Power-Constrained SoCs
If you’re designing SoCs, power is no doubt one of your top concerns—power scheduling, meeting power integrity targets, managing voltage drop, and other related challenges. While the solutions aren’t...
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Cadence Academic Network Presents at Khalifa Semiconductor Research Center
On Nov. 18 Dr. Patrick Haspel presented at Khalifa Semiconductor Research Center (KSRC) in United Arabic Emirates. The “Open House” event, which was organized by Dr. Mohammed Al-Mulla and Prof....
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Use the Integrated Flow with US
A couple of years ago, it was clear that the Cadence implementation flow required a from-the-ground-up re-creation. Nobody likes to say their old tools were not as good as they could be, but that is...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Implementation of Multi-Link, Multi-Protocol PHY
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, William Chen deep dives into the implementation of multi-link, multi-protocol PHY. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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First Cadence Academic Network Workshop in Israel
On October 27, the Cadence Academic Network organized the 1st Cadence Academic Workshop in Israel. More than 20 professors as well as PhDs and master students from five major Israeli universities...
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EUV Might Really Happen
I have been a skeptic about whether EUV was going to work. Just in case you have no idea what I'm talking about, EUV stands for extreme ultra-violet. For what seems like forever, we have been using...
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IEDM: the International Electron Devices Meeting
IEDM is a meeting held annually since 1955. Historically, it has alternated between Washington DC and San Francisco every other year. However, this year was the last year that the meeting was held in...
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EDAC "Crossing the Chasm" with John Lee
EDAC's Emerging Companies Committee has been organizing evening seminars a couple of times a year in which Jim Hogan chats with someone with successful startup experience about what they did and what...
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Digital Implementation Summit: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Highlights Technologies to...
Without a doubt, there’s plenty of innovation happening in the electronics industry right now. The burning question is, how can engineers continue to accelerate this level of innovation while also...
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What's Good About ADW’s Component Browser for Project Manager? The Secret's...
The 16.6-2015 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) release contains a significant enhancement that allows traditional Project Manager-based designs to use the same database enabled Component Browser used in...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Understanding the Computational Activity Behind...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses the inter-workings of neural networks, which are applied to a variety of data types for pattern recognition. Hear Chris explain what is...
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Congratulations Chris Rowen, for He's a Jolly Good (IEEE) Fellow
So the lede is that Chris Rowen has been elected an IEEE Fellow. In a sense it is actually a group award, because he couldn't have achieved what he has without the teams that surrounded him, in most...
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Nibbles—Breakfast Bytes Predictions for 2016
Neils Bohr, the physicist (or should that be the quantum mechanic) famously said "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." The semiconductor industry, despite its incredible...
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Word from the Source—USB-IF on What USB-IF Is and What’s New in USB (Jeff...
In case you don’t know, USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF, for short) is the organization behind all things USB. Its president and COO, Jeff Ravencraft, sat down in the Cadence video studio and answered...
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