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Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? New Enhanced Backdrill Capability (Reason 4...
Adventures in Backdrilling For the past 15 years or so, routing high-speed interfaces handling 5Gbps or higher have become more common in many electrical designs. Transitioning high-frequency signals...
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TSMC: Technology Update
Twice a year TSMC has a big meeting in San Jose. These are the times that there is a public update on their process roadmap, how process ramps are going, the OIP ecosystem, and so on. But they make it...
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5 Reasons Why Floating Point Is Increasing in Use
Popular since the 1970s for general-purpose computing and supercomputing, floating point is increasingly in demand for compute-intensive digital signal processing applications like sensor fusion,...
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3 Things You Didn't Know About MemCon 2016
Memcon is an event like few others, where SoC architects congregate to learn and debate the strategies of system design to keep up with the insatiable data/throughput demands of today’s electronics....
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Why Is More Floating-Point Computation Required by...
Why is more floating-point computation required by DSP applications? More and more DSP applications use algorithms that are best realized using floating-point arithmetic. In this Whiteboard Wednesday...
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Memories Are Made of This: Preview of MemCon
This year's MemCon is on October 11, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Last year I wrote about how MemCon got started. But since it was just my fourth blog for Breakfast Bytes, and hardly anyone...
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What’s for Breakfast? Preview October 3rd to 7th (video)
(Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: Options for 5nm. Silicon can only cut off sub-threshold at 60mV/decade. There are two ways to get more, the blue pill and the red pill. Tuesday:...
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Linley Gwennap: Specialization Spurs Processor Innovation
Every year in the fall, the Linley Group runs their processor conference. There are other conferences earlier in the year that are more specialized, addressing servers, mobile, and IoT. The conference,...
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What is ISO 26262 and Why Should I Care?
ISO 26262 is a functional safety standard applied to the development of electrical and/or electronic (E/E) systems in automobiles. It is aimed at reducing risks of physical injury or of damage to the...
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How Can I Get Out of This House Without Going Anywhere Near Your Garage?
Go to any venture capitalist's website and they will have a bragging page with their portfolio. Usually not just their current investments but also (especially) major exits. Bessemer Venture Partners...
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5nm: Do You Take the Red Pill or the Blue Pill?
I wrote recently about the TSMC OIP Symposium where they talked about future devices: Ge FinFET, III-V FinFet, III-V GAA FET, stacked GAA nanowire FET, tunnel FET, graphene non ribbon, and carbon...
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Advancing Mobile, High-Performance Computing, Automotive, and IoT...
Collaboration was, of course, the presiding theme at the TSMC Open Innovation Platform® Ecosystem Forum on Thursday, Sept. 22, at the San Jose Convention Center. This year, the keynote talks focused on...
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Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? So How Does Your Design “Stack-Up”? (Reason...
We are not talking about how your design compares to the next guys’, we’re talking about the PCB layer structure of your design, be it rigid, flex, rigid-flex, or using inlay technology. Stackup...
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A Winning Strategy: Ethernet 10Base-T to Ethernet 400G!
Ethernet was developed in the 1970s and has been a viable communications protocol for over 40 years. Ethernet was initially used to connect computer systems and peripherals in a local area network...
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1,168 Reasons to Watch Training Bytes
Well, they told me that starting blog titles with a number is good clickbait. The bigger the number, the better, right? It turns out that there are more Bytes in town than Breakfast Bytes. Cadence has...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: SPD – A Symbolic Way to Edit Your Physical Design
The best way to complete a complex task is to break it into smaller, simpler tasks. This is exactly what Symbolic Placement of Devices, popularly known as SPD, does for layout engineers. SPD is a...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - How Much Floating Point Does Your Application Need?
To address the growing needs for floating-point arithmetic in DSP algorithms, all Tensilica DSP families support floating point. In this second part of a two-part Whiteboard Wednesdays video series, we...
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Tensilica Floating Point: Small, Similar Cycles and Lower Power
When I first started programming, the first programming language I learned was Fortran IV. In that era, learning to program at that age was rare, since the only computers that existed were mainframes....
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Cadence Academic Network in Nordic countries
“Finland is not Scandinavia” was one of the first statements I heard, when I landed in Norway. “OK, let's consider it as a Nordic country”, I said, trying to resolve the situation. “Nordic is fine”. So...
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Verific: the Name is Short for Verification...But That's Not What They Do
I had an interesting conversation with Michiel Ligthart and Rick Carlson of Verific. They have a unique niche in the EDA ecosystem. They provide parsers for SystemVerilog, VHDL, and IEEE 1801 (fka...
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