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Virtuoso Variation Option: Reliable High-Yield Design with Scaled-Sigma Sampling
What’s Scaled-Sigma Sampling? Scaled-sigma sampling (SSS) is an efficient algorithm to solve the high-yield estimation problem, which happens when your circuit needs to have a really low failure rate,...
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Analog Design Resonance: Quick and Efficient Regression Scripts–Now Possible...
You must have experienced and appreciated the new Virtuoso ADE product suite that is packaged with a lot of easy-to-use, productivity-enhancing, and robust features. Did you notice the tools also offer...
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Smartphones: Linley's Annual Review
This week is the Linley Mobile Conference, although it is now the Mobile and Wearables Conference. As always, Linley Gwenap gave the opening keynote with his overview of the industry. One milestone...
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Cadence at Flash Memory Summit 2016: Octal SPI, eMMC 5.1, ONFi 4, and...
If you design with flash memory components or IP solutions, head on over to the Santa Clara Convention Center to attend the Flash Memory Summit that is being held August 9-11 in Santa Clara,...
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Fastest Octal SPI Flash Interface Available Now From Cadence
Flash memory is being utilized in computers and electronic devices found in Automotive, IoT, Drones, Connected Home, and other emerging applications, demanding ever higher transfer rates and lower...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Using Processor Clusters to Implement Neural Networks
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen describes how to use processor clusters to implement neural networks. This approach allows you to achieve higher frame rates, which leads to...
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Chipworks Looks at Smartphones
Chipworks buys hundreds of devices every year and strips them down to look at the silicon that is in them. In some cases, they go much further, decap the chips, and work their way down the layers so...
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Merger Mania
At the recent GSA Silicon Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, the keynote was given by Wally Rhines on consolidation in the semiconductor industry, titled "Merger Mania." He...
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Breakfast Bytes Guide to Japan Travel
Cadence was shut down for the week of July 4th, so I went to Japan with a friend who had never been before. Despite having been two or three dozen times before in my life, this was actually my first...
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A Raven Has Landed: RISC-V and Chisel
In Game of Thrones , ravens are George RR Martin's way of getting information around faster than a horse, the email of his world. At UC Berkeley, Raven is a RISC-V processor, with an attached vector...
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DAC 2016: Saving Design Time with an Electrically Aware Design Flow
With a portfolio including dedicated automotive ICs, discrete and power transistors, MEMs and specialized imaging sensors, and digital ASICs, STMicroelectonics is a leading provider of smart driving...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Persistent Snap and Select? New...
The 16.6-2015 Allegro PCB Editor release introduces a few new features that provide a persistent capability. Read on for more details. Persistent Snap Overview As an update to the previously added Snap...
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Five Industry Experts Coming to CDNLive Boston to Discuss Signal and Power...
Who Are They? Istvan Novak – Senior Principal Engineer at Oracle Kevin Roselle – Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Stephen Scearce – Senior Manager of High Speed Design at Cisco Dale Becker – Chief...
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CDNLive Bengaluru, a Long Journey
I've not been to Bengaluru for about 20 years, when I ran engineering at Compass and we were considering setting up an engineering group in India. I came out with an Indian business development guy and...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—Radar Signal Processing for Automotive Applications
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first of a two-part series, Pushkar Patwardhan provides an overview of radar systems in automotive applications and the different data streams that must...
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CDNLive Bengaluru: Day 1
As I did at the Design Automation Conference in Austin earlier this year, I will put a blog out with the highlights of the day (at least the ones I saw, I can't attend every track obviously). It's not...
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What's for Breakfast? August 8th
This is the first weekly video "What's for Breakfast?" that previews the blog entries coming up the following week on Breakfast Bytes. (Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: RISC-V and...
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CDNLive Bengaluru: Day 2
CDNLive Bengaluru takes place over two days. But it is organized very differently from the two day CDNLive Silicon Valley. The first day is dedicated to verification, the second day to implementation,...
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The Evolution of MIPI DSI
The MIPI DSI specification has come a long way from the days of its early introduction targeting mainly mobile applications to today, where it is finding use in very different industries like...
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5G, Coming Soon to a Phone Near You
At the Linley Mobile Conference recently, the morning after Linley's keynote was focused on 5G. It is easy to say that nobody knows what the next generation of mobile actually is, but it will be called...
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