CDNLive EMEA: An Intern's Perspective
CDNLive EMEA is often cited as the most exciting event of the year for Cadence. This being the first time I would be attending any CDNLive, I was eager to see for myself if this was true and I must say...
View ArticleThe PCIe 4.0 Era Continues at PCI-SIG Developers Conference 2016
PCI-SIG is a leading event in cloud infrastructure transformation, which is markets all over the world. We see a lot of market forces at work, creating urgency for PCIe Gen4 dynamics. Designers, system...
View ArticleCan You See Me? Putting Neural Networks in Everyday Devices
Neural networks have become very popular today due to their use in leading-edge technology like deep learning machines, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Neural networks offer a powerful...
View ArticleGary Patton: What's Next? Markets and Technology
One of the keynotes at the imec technology forum last month was by Gary Patton, the CTO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES. I reminded him in the evening event at the Magritte museum that he'd done an interview with...
View ArticleStudents From Tianjin University in China Visit Cadence Sophia
Back in May, Professor Gilles Jacquemod and 9 engineering students from Tianjin University who are currently visiting Sophia-Antipolis engineering school stopped by the Cadence office in Sophia,...
View ArticleSpeed or Accuracy? ARM Shares Insights on Virtual Prototyping
Which is more critical for you: simulation speed or accuracy? Can you have it all? As consumers continue to thirst for more and better features in their electronic products, design complexity grows,...
View ArticleCadence Sigrity SystemSI Technology Highlighted at CDNLive SV 2016
This year’s CDNLive Silicon Valley developer conference had more than 125 presentations from 12 different technical tracks. More than 25 exhibitors participated in the Designer Expo. The IC...
View ArticleHow to Create a Working IoT Sensor in One Month
Cadence and ARM have created an IoT IP reference sub-system that can speed system development, enabling rapid prototyping and reducing time to market. The sub-system contains a processor and a set of...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays—Optimizing Neural Networks
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses optimizing neural networks for low-energy and high-throughput applications. (Please visit the site to view this video)
View ArticleLast Chance to See Tsukiji Fish Market
This doesn’t have much to do with Cadence or semiconductors. It has a lot to do with Japan, but Japan isn’t the force it used to be in semiconductors. They have gradually rolled a lot of their...
View ArticleWhy Distributed Static Timing Analysis Is a Good Choice for Large Designs
One of the new experiences that Cadence brought to DAC this year were the Experience Rooms in the booth. In these themed rooms, technical experts from a variety of companies shared use cases and design...
View ArticleCadence Online Support—Empowering Learning! New Learnings of June'16
Cadence Online Support Features " You might also be interested in ” Section “You might also be interested in” section in Cadence Online Support (COS) section is present immediately under the document...
View ArticleDAC 2016: Encouraging Girls to Pursue STEM Careers
Women in the U.S. earn half of the bachelor’s degrees, with only 18% in computer science and less than 20% in engineering. Roughly 18% of engineers in the country are female. “The world’s greatest...
View ArticlePower-Efficient Recognition Systems for Embedded Applications
Neural networks are hot. Las Vegas is hot, too. And there is a connection. In late June, one of the major conferences for the field, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), is held there. On...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Gauging Signal Quality Using Eye Diagrams
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chung Huang summarizes his presentation from CDNLive Silicon Valley on gauging quality of signals using the eye diagram. To view his CDNLive presentation,...
View ArticleDAC: A Glimpse of the Future Innovators
Hope you read my previous blog on Cadence Academic Network sponsoring all the student activities and sponsorships at DAC this year. More than 100 students from around the world received the travel...
View ArticleStudents from Pohang University of Science and Technology Visit Cadence...
My team recently had the privilege of hosting first year undergraduate students aka soon-to-be brilliant engineers from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea. On June 27 at 10...
View ArticleHow to Optimize Your CNN
Convolutional neural nets (CNNs) are not programmed in the traditional sense, but rather they are trained. The challenge to doing this is that you need a lot of good data which is already classified as...
View ArticlePRIME and SMACD Conferences in Lisbon
Cadence Academic Network is supporting for years PRIME (PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics) and SMACD (Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit...
View ArticleCadence Academic Network in Poland
Poland is a country with long tradition in microelectronics education and research. During the time of Iron Curtain when the universities were controlled by the government, the AGH University in Cracow...
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