Interface IP in Consumer Electronics
What is the consumer marketplace? It is a bit of a tautology, but it is electronic products bought by consumers. As the famous advertising executive David Ogilvy said (in 1955), "the consumer is not an...
View ArticleFunctional 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...
View ArticleCadence at embedded world—ADAS, the Stepping Stone to Self-Driving Cars
Cadence will be at embedded world in Nüremberg from February 23 to 26. We will be in hall 4/4 booth 116. I'm hoping for a better experience than last time I went when I worked for Virtutech. I was...
View ArticleWhy a Rigorous Metric-Driven Verification Methodology Should Be a Critical...
From the hacking of VTech electronic learning devices to leaks in Juniper firewall equipment and the massive Takata airbag recall, 2015 was, unfortunately, a headline year for safety issues. Such...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays—Ethernet and Automotive Electronics
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra follows up on last week's video by discussing Automotive Ethernet and how it fits into the four different electronic categories in a vehicle....
View ArticleCare for Some Gates With Your Server?
One of the big themes from the Linley Data Center Conference earlier this month was the need to get more performance out of each server without increasing the power requirements. Adding more processing...
View ArticleHow ARM Servers Can Take Over the World
One of the big themes of the Linley Data Center Conference last week was the possibility that ARM could finally start to get traction in the data center. In the opening keynote, Linley Analysts Jag...
View ArticleInternet of Things: How Will They Be Built?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is not really a market, it is a catchall term for devices that connect to the internet, sometimes via our smartphones. The whole IoT ecosystem has a cloud backend and...
View ArticleAutomotive Test, How to Use Just Two Pins
Automotive chips often suffer from a limited chip interface in which most of the pins are analog. But increasingly, high-precision analog is being implemented not as pure analog layout, which suffers...
View ArticleDiscussing System Design Enablement with Academia in Asia
Most new electronic products consist of multi-function system devices made up of subsystems and connected into even larger systems. A system design enablement approach addresses the challenges of this...
View ArticleHow to Overlay Shapes on Top of Sets of Reference Objects with the Latest...
Many of you are familiar with the bond finger soldermask opening creation tool—used for years, it allows you to create a single, smooth hole in your soldermask shapes that exposes all the bond fingers...
View ArticleUVM-ML OA: Now Within Incisive Platform As Well!
Open-source software has many advantages. In short: you can see it (the code), you can inspect it ( check out what Coverity revealed in the Android kernel ), and you can change it. But the fact that...
View ArticleLearning is the New Programming: Neural Nets
Whenever I hear of "deep learning," it makes me think of Deep Thought, the computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that after years of computation concluded that the answer to the ultimate...
View ArticleWhat's Good About the Capture-PSpice Flow? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several...
In the Capture-PSpice 16.6-2015 release, the following enhancements have been added: 20 new chapters have been added in the PSpice Application Notes Enhancements to the Capture Start Page New...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays—Power Delivery Trends from CES 2016
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda recaps his experience at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016. Jacek specifically highlights the power delivery function in the latest USB...
View ArticleBarcelona MWC: 5G and Disruption
I am in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. They won't give me a press pass since I don't work for a media organization, which means I don't get to go to press conferences like the one on Sunday night...
View ArticleBarcelona MWC: Zuckerberg Interview
The last event of the day at Mobile World Congress was an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook. Obviously with 120,000 people here, not everyone that wanted to attend was going to get...
View ArticleDo You Want to Be Up-to-date About the Cadence Academic Network?
If yes, then join our community of more than 1000 colleges and subscribe to Cadence Academic Network’s newsletter to receive great content delivered right to your inbox. At Cadence Academic Network, we...
View ArticleBarcelona MWC: ARM, Virtual Reality, Formula 1
Sometimes a little slip of the tongue gives away a deeper truth. One of those happened on day two of Mobile World Congress when Michael O'Hara, CMO of the GSM Association, which represents mobile...
View ArticleStudents from University of Calgary Visit Cadence Headquarters
The Cadence Academic Network is also a career network. We love to help students from our Academic Network Contributor Group network with other members, so they can start a new career or do an...
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