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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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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Radar Signal Processing Optimized for the Tensilica...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Pushkar Patwardhan discusses the advantages of using the Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP for implementation and optimization of radar signal processing for automotive...
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Wearables: Growing at 38% CAGR?
At what has now become the Linley Mobile and Wearables Conference, Linley pointed out that wearables are growing at 38%. However, there was a big caveat on Linley's slide, that this assumes "Apple...
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Coverage Maximization
Searching for “automatic coverage maximization” results with ~16 million hits. Alas, this does not reflect 16 million solutions, rather it is an indication of the big interest in this topic, and the...
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Who Put the Silicon in Silicon Valley?
I think the person who has the strongest claim to putting the silicon in Silicon Valley is William Shockley. He was one of the three people, along with John Bardeen and Walter Battain, to invent the...
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Provisioning Devices Securely
Asaf Ashkenazi of Cryptography Research (now part of Rambus) talked about provisioning devices securely at the recent Linley Mobile & Wearables Conference. The heart of all security and...
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ISVLSI 2016: Advanced-Node Custom Layout Symposium Keynote
I had an exciting week in July here in Pittsburgh, PA with the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI ( ISVLSI.org ). I was fortunate enough to be invited to do one of the keynotes at the...
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Piloted Driving: Audi's View
I hope it isn't a surprise to anyone reading this blog that the share of a vehicle's cost that goes to electronics is increasing rapidly. I expect most readers participate in some way in the ecosystem...
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Deadline Approaching for Tensilica Design Contest
Do you have a clever way to accelerate Montgomery modular multiplication? That would be your challenge as an entrant in the Global Tensilica Design Contest. Abstracts are due September 16. The aim of...
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HoloLens Is at the Tip of the Tensilica Iceberg, With Processors That Scale...
Microsoft provided details of their HoloLens HPU at HotChips this week, revealing the use of 24 optimized Tensilica processors to speed up all the sensor processing by up to 200x. The media has taken...
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Aging and Self-Heating in FinFETs
At CDNLive in India, Cadence's Hany Elhak discussed aging and self-heating, and how to analyze it. All transistors age and all transistors have self-heating effects. However, aging wasn't really an...
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Provisioning Devices Securely
Asaf Ashkenazi of Cryptography Research (now part of Rambus) talked about provisioning devices securely at the recent Linley Mobile & Wearables Conference. The heart of all security and...
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Sneak Peek: 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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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Application-Optimized DDR PHYs
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Kishore Kasamsetty takes a closer look at how designers continue to get more out of memory subsystems. The traditional one-size-fits-all DDR PHY no longer...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Introducing WSP Manager
Using Width Spacing Patterns for Advanced Node Designs Are you an advanced node layout or CAD engineer trying to find a methodology for routing designs in the Virtuoso platform? Interested to learn how...
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Provisioning Devices Securely
Asaf Ashkenazi of Cryptography Research (now part of Rambus) talked about provisioning devices securely at the recent Linley Mobile & Wearables Conference. The heart of all security and...
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MIPI SoundWire
The MIPI Alliance exists to standardize widely used interfaces in mobile, such as those to cameras, displays, sensors, and more. I think MIPI originally stood for mobile industry processor interface...
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What’s for Breakfast? Preview September 6th to 9th (video)
(Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: Labor Day. Tuesday: CDNLive Boston. I report from last week's CDNLive Boston with a summary of some high spots of the day. Wednesday: SiFive, a look...
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DisplayPort 8K in Olympics 2020
If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the last couple of weeks glued to the TV, watching the 2016 Olympics in Rio, cheering madly every time a favorite athlete was competing. In our household, the...
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