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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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Verification Technology Update
At CDNLive in Bengaluru last week, Michal Siwiński gave a technology update on verification to everyone. Well, the PCB folks had already gone off to another room for their own update. The first thing...
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DAC 2016: How the RocketSim Parallel Simulation Engine Eliminates Functional...
At the Design Automation Conference in June, I stopped by Cadence’s booth for a demo of our RocketSim parallel simulation engine. (Cadence acquired Rocketick, who developed the tool, back in April.)...
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What's for Breakfast? August 15th
It's verification week this week, with 5 posts about various aspects of Cadence's portfolio of verification tools. (Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: At CDNLive in Bengaluru, Michal...
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Building the Cars of the Future
The big buzz in the automotive industry lately is autonomous driving vehicles. Companies like Mercedes, BMW, Google, and Tesla have already released, or are soon to release, self-driving features that...
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What’s New with Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)
Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) is a memory architecture that was developed by Micron in 2011. It was developed in response to the high-bandwidth, high-efficiency memory requirements of multi-core processing...
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A Perspective on Perspec System Verifier
Today we have UVM, the universal verification methodology. This is great for verifying IP blocks. But when it comes to verifying at the system level, something higher level is required, something that...
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10 New Protocols to Design and Integrate Your SoC in Record Time
This month we released 10 new Verification IP for leading-edge protocols! Did I say 10? Yet again, we continue to be first in the market with support for protocols used in leading-edge applications...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP Features and Benefits
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Paul Garden provides more details on the new Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP features. He’ll discuss the benefits of the 128-bit SIMD ALU, instruction formats,...
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Omnia Simulation in Tres Partes Divisa Est
"Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est" were the opening words to Julius Caesar's account of the Gallic war. All Gaul is divided into three parts. He went on to explain that they were the Belgians in...
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Palladium and Protium Platforms, the Hardware Twins
The Palladium Z1 is an enterprise-level emulation system. If you don't already know about it, you can read my post Palladium Z1, an Enterprise Server Farm in a Rack . The Protium platform is an FPGA...
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What's for Breakfast? August 22nd
(Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: At SEMICON West the winner of the "Best of the West" award was Coventor. Take a look at their technology for virtual fabrication of wafers. Tuesday:...
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Perspec Modeling
The post A Perspective on Perspec earlier this week introduced the idea of Perspec System Verifier, that if you have a fairly abstract model of the system at a very high level, you can automatically...
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MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond
MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond The word “beyond” may bring up thoughts of the new Star Trek Beyond movie, or for those of you who are fascinated by real space travel, the National Aeronautics and...
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SEMICON Best of the West: Coventor
SEMICON West runs a sort of award program called Best of the West . Companies submit products, six finalists are chosen, and a final Best of the West is selected. Since SEMICON covers such a wide...
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IEEE: Connecting Technologists and Policy Makers to Shape the Future of the...
The internet is at a crossroads. From the internet of things to big data, smart grids, smart cities, intelligent transportation, and e-health, online applications are continuing to transform our lives....
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Less is More With MIPI I3C
There is little doubt that Internet of Things has become the next big thing in business, in particular in semiconductor IP. The growing number of devices monitoring and adjusting our surroundings –...
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CDNLive India Keynote
The keynote at CDNLive Bengaluru was given by Michal Siwiński. Since day 1 of CDNLive is verification and PCB, and day 2 is digital and analog implementation, almost nobody attends both days. So the...
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Sneak Peak: Discussion Topics for Signal and Power Integrity Expert Panel at...
Who? Istvan Novak - senior principal engineer at Oracle Kevin Roselle - senior staff engineer at Qualcomm Dale Becker – chief electronics packaging engineer at IBM Stephen Scearce – senior manager of...
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