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Virtuoso Front-to-Back Workshop Series in Saudi Arabia
Starting Dec. 5 th , 11 PSATRI members attended a five-day workshop on the Cadence Virtuoso front-to-back flow. PSATRI stands for Prince Sultan Advanced Technology Research Institute, which is part of...
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Word from the Source—USB-IF on USB Type-C and Alternate Modes (Jeff...
If it wasn’t for the fact that USB has always been spelled with capital letters, I would say that with the introduction of USB Type-C the organization behind all things USB—USB Implementers Forum—has...
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Word from the Source—USB-IF on USB Type-C Quality and Interoperability (Jeff...
In the first two parts of the interview with Jeff Ravencraft, the President and COO of USB Implementers Forum, we learnt a lot about where USB is and where it’s headed. Certainly, this ambitious plan...
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Got a Technical Topic to Discuss with Your Peers? CDNLive Silicon Valley Call...
Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours? CDNLive Silicon Valley, scheduled for April 5-6, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, offers a prime opportunity for you to share your technical...
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I'm Goin' Mobile
"I'm goin mobile," The Who sang on one of the greatest albums of all time. Although it is not what they were talking about then, today mobile is the biggest market in the world, especially if you look...
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Infrastructure: Connecting Mobile to the Cloud
Yesterday's blog post was about the mobile market. But, increasingly, mobile is not just about handsets, but about cloud datacenters and the networking to get the data back and forth. Functions such as...
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Virtuosity: Things I Learned in October, November, and December 2015 by...
I won't even attempt to number the items this time, and I'll have to skip the individual bits of troubleshooting information (note to self: don't wait three months between blog posts). There has been a...
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What's Good About FSP’s Enhanced Multi-Device Connections? 16.6 Has Several...
The FPGA System Planner (FSP) 16.6-2015 release now provides support for multiple connectors as one “target set” object. The allows FSP to consider all connectors as one large connector during...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—The Latest on the MIPI CSI-2 2.0 Protocol
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Moshik Ruben takes a closer look at the MIPI CSI-2 2.0 protocol and how this latest specification addresses today's pressing issues such as bandwidth,...
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Moore's Law at 50: Are We Planning for Retirement?
There has been lots of speculation, especially this year with the 50th anniversary of Moore's Law, as to whether it is over. This is not based on technical feasibility, nobody seriously doubts that we...
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Chris Rowen is Now an IEEE Fellow
For he's a jolly good Fellow, for he's a jolly good Fellow... Effective January 1, 2016, Chris Rowen, our CTO, became an IEEE Fellow with this citation: "for leadership in the development of...
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Drones in the Mini-Forest: Intel's Keynote at CES
Intel's CEO, Brian Krzanich, gave the opening keynote to CES on Tuesday night in the Venetian. Intel has a problem with this sort of occasion. They build chips. The chips go into things that are sexy...
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Samsung CES Keynote: In Sync with Real Life
Yesterday it was Samsung's turn for a keynote at CES. Depending on exactly how you define consumer electronics, I think that they must be the biggest consumer electronics company in the world. For sure...
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Tempus Has Over 200 Tapeouts Within 2 Years of Rollout
One of the challenges with any new tool is to drive adoption. There really is a "he who goes first loses" dynamic to a new product. Any new product has potential maturity issues early on, so everyone...
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Bringing More Efficiency into Embedded Audio Product Creation
Remember the days when the audio system in a car consisted of an AM/FM radio and cassette tape deck? Or, if you are old enough, 8-track. Today, the soundtrack for your commute is literally a Pandora’s...
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The Future of High-Speed SerDes
David Axelrad, product marketing manager, SerDes IP, presents Cadence's position prior to the High Speed I/O IP panel discussion at the GSA IP Working Group meeting on Thursday, 22 October, 2015. You...
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Cars, Drones, 8K, and VR/AR—Consumer Electronics Show 2016
CES is held in January each year. It is the largest conference in Las Vegas, which might make it the largest conference in the US. Last year 170,000 people attended and this year attendance is forecast...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—SSD Controller Basics and Trends
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Neil Robinson talks about SSD controllers, showing the functionality basics and trends for increasing the performance and lowering the energy consumed while...
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What Happens in Vegas...May Be in Your Next Chip
Cadence was at CES last week showing the most recent additions to their vision, audio, and USB IP solutions. Sometimes these types of shows seem a little bit like the nursery rhyme: This is the cat,...
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Mobile Unleashed: a New Book About ARM
Mobile Unleashed is subtitled The Origin and Evolution of ARM Processors in Our Devices . It is by Don Dingee and Dan Nenni (my collaborator on our book Fabless ). They even persuaded Sir Robin Saxby,...
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