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Conway's Law and the Changing Structure of Automobile Companies
There is a law in business organization known as Conway's Law. This states that: Organizations which design systems...are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures...
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DesignCon Demonstration of IP for PCIe 4.0 and 16Gbps Multi-Protocol PHY
We enjoyed sharing our latest news with the many people who visited our booth at this year's DesignCon, showing our demonstration of PCIe 4.0 carried on a 16Gbps Multi-Protocol PHY. You can see some of...
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Who's the Better Decision-Maker: Self-Driving Car or Human?
Will self-driving cars be able to react better than a person can when something unforeseen happens on the road? That’s just one of many questions that auto manufacturers and the electronics industry...
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How to Start as an IT Intern and Become a Cadence Employee
Here at Cadence we are very proud to provide internships to students and graduates, and offer them the opportunity to develop skills within a successful and dynamic workplace. Here are three accounts...
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Cadence Online Support – Empowering Learning! New Learnings from December 2015
Documentation plays a significant role in helping to understand the software. Cadence is putting in lots of effort in developing different forms of documentation, from product manuals to videos,...
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Modus Test Solution—Tests Great, Less Filling
Today Cadence announced the latest product in the "us" series of next-generation tools for leading-edge nodes, the Modus Test Solution. I always think that test gets treated as a second-class citizen,...
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Cadence Academic Network Sponsors Build 18, an Annual Freestyle Tinkering...
What happens when you challenge a group of electrical and computer engineering students to come up with the most innovative and imaginative product with just a handful of electronic parts,...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Mapping Convolutional Neural Networks to the Vision P5 DSP
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Chris Rowen explains how convolutional neural networks (CNNs) map onto the high-performance Tensilica Vision P5 DSP. He describes the benefits that the...
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Linley Data Center Conference: FPGAs and ARMs in the Cloud
Next week, February 9-10, is the Linley Data Center Conference in the Santa Clara Hyatt, which hopefully will be cleared of Superbowl madness by then. It is one of four conferences that the Linley...
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"Thermal is the New Power" and Melting Butter with Your Phone
For some time now, SoC design groups have had to optimize PPA: performance, power and area. These are tradeoffs. For example, if you increase the clock frequency then you will get higher performance...
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Trim Your Test Costs Today
Rising test costs can be a real drag on your bottom line. If you’re looking for a way to trim your test costs, take a look at Cadence’s new Modus Test Solution. This DFT technology provides a way to...
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Datacenter in a Can
Earlier this week I wrote about the Linley Data Center Conference and how Thermal is the New Power . With perfect timing, also earlier this week, Microsoft announced the existence of project Natick to...
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How to Maximize Performance When Your Package Layout Gets Complicated
We are all familiar with it. Every year, designs get faster, smaller, and more complicated. Whether your newest package has a towering stack of memory dies placed into a cavity or a few massive...
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Autonomous Vehicles and the Semiconductor Industry: a Double-Edged Sword
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how automotive companies are going to need to change as the importance of electronics becomes the most important thing. But there are some potentially larger...
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Making a Case for the Intelligent Internet of Things
We’ve heard the projection: by 2020, the world will have 50 billion connected things. But can our Internet backbone truly scale to support this level of connectivity? “That highway only has so much...
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Where You Going? Barcelona (and Mobile World Congress)
Mobile World Congress (MWC) is later this month in Barcelona in Spain (actually in Catalonia, but at least for now that is part of Spain despite a push for independence). Funnily enough, the last time...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Where Ethernet Is Used in Automotive Electronics
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra takes a closer look at the different categories that implement automotive Ethernet and their importance to the driving experience. (Please...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Shape Edit Application Mode? New...
The Allegro PCB Editor 16.6-2015 release provides Shape Edit Application Mode, a tuned editing environment optimized for the manipulation of shape boundaries. In SPB16.0, all Allegro back-end tools...
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Software-Driven Hardware Verification
There is a transition going on in the system and semiconductor worlds. Some system companies are starting to do their own semiconductor design. In fact, it is notable that all the leading smartphone...
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Functional Verification Closure—Are We Done Yet?
In my job as product marketing director for vManager and MDV, I get to hear this discussed all the time— when will verification be done? If not asked overtly, at a minimum it’s that rattling and...
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