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3D Xpoint: Is It a Game-Changer?
You have probably at least heard of 3D Xpoint. This is a memory technology jointly developed between Intel and Micron. I attended one of the keynotes at the Open Server Summit by Rob Peglar of Micron....
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Breakfast Bytes: Post #150
This is the 150th blog post here at Breakfast Bytes since I arrived at Cadence in early October. Since you are reading this, however you got here, then you already know Breakfast Bytes is a blog on the...
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What Memory Best Fits Your Application?
With highly effective DDR4 and LPDDR4 class memories, it’s not always easy to know what kind of memory will best fit the needs of your application? What is the optimal compromise between keeping costs...
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DAC: the Curtain Rises on the Cadence Theater
As in previous years, a highlight of the Cadence booth at DAC is the theater, where customers and partners (plus the occasional Cadence person) present their experiences with Cadence tools and IP....
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Designing Wearable Healthcare Applications with Patient-Specific,...
One powerful countermeasure against chronic disease is to detect and treat it early. Doing so calls for collecting and monitoring vast amounts of data. In Dr. Jerald Yoo’s view, this is the perfect job...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Tips and Tricks on Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis...
Virtuoso Video Diary is envisaged to be an online journal that will relay information about Virtuoso videos that are available in the Cadence Online Support Video Library. For IC6.1.7 and ICADV12.2,...
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DAC 2016—Student Activities and Scholarships
The Cadence Academic Network is the proud sponsor of all student activities and scholarships at DAC this year. Please join us at one or all of the following events: A. Richard Newton Young Student...
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16Gbps Multi-link, Multi-protocol SerDes at the 21st IEEE European Test...
The 21 st European Test Symposium (IEEE EST) took place in Amsterdam (Netherlands) from May 23 rd -27 th . With all the ideas and challenges in designing applications and with new trends in the area of...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Advantages of the MIPI I3C Interface
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Alex Passi explains the advantages provided by the new MIPI I3C interface. With I3C, mobile device sensors can transmit data faster, with lower power and...
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Inside Secure Writes the Book on IoT Security for Dummies
At the Linley IoT conference recently, one of the presentations was by Steve Singer of Inside Secure. As many of the other presenters emphasized during the day, security is one of the biggest issues in...
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ITF Keynote: IC Innovation—the Heartbeat of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Luc van den Hove, the CEO of imec, gave the opening keynote at the imec Technology Forum in Brussels last week. There were really two themes to his presentation. One theme was Gordon Moore and Moore's...
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How to Maximize Your Verification Experience at DAC 2016
Next week will mark the annual EDA gathering in Austin. For me it is my 20 th DAC … I know, compared to some I am still wet behind my ears, but that’s only because I started my career in embedded...
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DAC 2016—Drink from the Expert Bar and Then at the Denali Party
Black-belt interface and memory protocol technologists will be at your disposal at this year’s DAC (Design Automation Conference) in Austin, Texas, June 5-9. You have to sign up for some activities, so...
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DAC: My Guide
DAC starts this weekend. So what should you go to? I'll tell you what my plans are. Of course, my job is largely to find interesting things to write about here, which is probably very different from...
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How to Find Where Declared e Entities Are Used
The e Reflection API allows you to perform various queries on entities in your own code, and to figure out which types, fields, methods, and so on have been declared in the code, the relations between...
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DAC News, Sunday
Gary Smith EDA Traditionally the start of DAC is a short presentation by Gary Smith EDA on what to see at DAC and their view on the future of the EDA industry. As usual, Lori Kate, Gary's wife (I...
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More Accurate Static Timing Analysis at Advanced Nodes
Every year, the industry’s brightest minds in static timing analysis (STA) and EDA gather to discuss the latest challenges and solutions at the Tau Workshop. Earlier this spring, Cadence’s Praveen...
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DAC News, Monday
Monday is always a hectic start to DAC. If you have been in the industry for decades, as I have, it is hard to walk more than twenty yards without meeting old friends and colleagues who have been in...
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Analog Design Resonance: When a Plan Comes Together
Yes, indeed, we all love it when a plan comes together. A plan for running all the simulations you need, using different combinations of tests, corners, variables, and run modes. A plan that you can...
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DAC News, Tuesday
Tuesday, the second day of DAC. Last night I learned that in Texas there is a third thing that you don't discuss, to go along with politics and religion: barbecue. After the show closed, we went to the...
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