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Try These Innovative Online Educational Tools
Web applications for electronics design provide an environment where users can apply their knowledge, and thus accelerate learning. These virtual laboratories provide plenty instruments and pre-built...
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Andrzej Strojvas, the 2016 Kaufman Award Recipient
This year's Kaufman Award recipient is Andrzej Strojvas. He is the Keithley professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and is also the CTO of PDF Solutions....
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What’s for Breakfast? Preview October 24th to 28th (video)
(Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: The IoT attacks, with the biggest distributed denial of service attack ever Tuesday: Highlights of DVCon Europe Wednesday: Reliability and functional...
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How Virtualization Is Changing Networking
On the second day of the Linley Processor conference, the keynote was by Bruce Davie. He did his PhD in computer science at University of Edinburgh (yeah, so did I) and worked for many years for Cisco...
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Why is Power Integrity Hot (or is it Cool)?
When designing next-generation products, the common theme is "faster, smaller, cheaper". When that is combined with longer battery life and lower power consumption requirements, the design challenges...
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DVCon(x2), DVClub(x2): Portable Stimulus Is Everywhere
In my most recent blog post , I talked about the industry vision for portable stimulus as a way to improve verification reuse, automate test creation, and enhance coverage. The Accellera Portable...
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MemCon: Memory for the Next Five Years
This year's MemCon keynotes were given by Hugh Durdan, VP of the IP Group at Cadence, on Diverging Products for Diverging Needs: Where Will the Memory Industry Be in Five Years , and by Steve...
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Video Cameras: No Service for You
In the late 1970s, most scientific computing was done on digital equipment (DEC) Vax 11/780 computers. The operating system came with a couple of default accounts so that you could log in and configure...
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DVCon Europe, What You Missed
DVCon Europe took place last week for the third time. If you are in China, you have your own DVCon coming next year for the first time, April 19 in Shanghai. DVCon Silicon Valley will be February 27 to...
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How Is It to Visit an Open Source Conference?
There are different conferences on microelectronics. There are the industry conferences, where the CEOs are telling how well their companies are prepared for or against the next disruption, these...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - IVD Tips and Tricks
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Patrick Oury discusses tips and tricks of using Interconnect Validator to verify the correctness of the data as it passes through the SoC interconnect...
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Make Sure Your Car Doesn't Break Too Often...When It Does, Make Sure You...
We need our cars to be safe as the amount of electronics in them increases almost exponentially. One aspect of that is that the component suppliers need to provide Automotive Safety Integrity Level...
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Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis is in the south of France, a sort of research park carved out of scrubland on top of a plateau inland from Antibes (Antipolis is the Latin name for Antibes). It was created in the...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 31st to November 4th
(Please visit the site to view this video) It's Automotive Week on Breakfast Bytes. Monday: Mike Demler's overview of automotive and the NXP keynote from the Linley Processor Conference Tuesday: Segars...
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How PCB Design Teams Can Signoff on a Predictable Schedule by Finding Signal...
Sigrity Tech Tips Series A major challenge for PCB design teams is how to assure on schedule signoff without driving the designers crazy to design -> route -> re-route over and over again as...
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How Does Virtualization Work?
I wrote recently about the keynote from the Linley processor conference about network virtualization, and an analogy with server virtualization. One question that I know from when I worked at VaST and...
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Automotive at Linley: Intelligent Vehicles and Intelligent Intersections
The whole afternoon the second day of the Linley Processor Conference was dedicated to automotive. To show how important this has become, what used to be the Mobile Processor Conference is no more, and...
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Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? Arc-aware routing with enhanced contour hug...
Enhanced Contour Routing is a new prototype feature in the Cadence® Allegro® PCB Designer 17.2-2016 that provides a more efficient method to add routing during Add Connect by following an existing...
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Students from Tsinghua University Visit Cadence Beijing
On October 20, 2016, 12 Masters and Ph.D. students mostly from Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University visited the Cadence Beijing Office. The group was welcomed by Tracy Zhu, Cadence...
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Segars and Son
When I was growing up, there was a TV show in the UK called Steptoe and Son, and renamed Sanford and Son when it was remade for the US market. Yesterday was the Segars and Son show. Son's company...
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