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Wave Computing: a Dataflow Processor for Deep Learning
On the first day of the Linley Processor conference someone told me that he was really looking forward to the presentation the following day from Wave Computing. I had to confess I'd never heard of...
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Genie in a Mouse Click: Indago Protocol Debug App
Do you remember what life was like before the internet and smart phones? If you wanted to find information about something, you had to go to the library and find a book that could answer your question,...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Optimized FFT Implementations on the ConnX BBE32EP
Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is a key computational module in almost all DSP applications, and an important benchmark to assess the instruction set architecture (ISA) of a DSP. In this week's...
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Automotive Is a Pot of Gold Guarded by a Dragon
One of the big themes of pretty much any conference on semiconductors these days is automotive, and DVCon Europe was no exception. For me the most memorable phrase of the day was from Amir Rahat of...
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How to Address the Challenges of Serial Link Design and Analysis
What is a serial link? It's an interface where data is serialized for high-speed data transmission. Serial data gets transferred from transmitter equalizer (serializer) to receiver equalizer...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 7th to 11th
(Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: The amazing story of Raspberry Pi as told by Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi foundation Tuesday: The Jasper User Group is the largest...
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Analog Devices Promotes Portable Stimulus at DVClub
If you’re not familiar with the series of DVClub events held in North American, Europe, and Asia, please consult my most recent blog post for a brief history. These events offer a unique opportunity...
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Automotive Security: A Hacker's Eye View
Charlie Miller gave a keynote at ARM TechCon on automotive security. He is regarded as one of the world's most proficient hacker, although he is one of the good guys (a white hat in security parlance)....
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Virtuoso Video Diary: I Am Not Promoting Layout Hierarchy Manipulation!
Are you contemplating manipulating your layout hierarchy by adding or removing a few levels? Are you wondering if having a layout hierarchy out of sync with the schematic is advisable? Well, neither I...
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The Amazing Raspberry Pi Story
Eben Upton gave a spellbinding keynote at ARM TechCon on the history of Raspberry Pi. He is a founder of the Raspberry Pi foundation and also an ASIC designer at Broadcom. Unusually for a keynote like...
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Who Wrote the Book on Formal Verification?
Who wrote the book on formal verification? Depending on whether you want to take the question literally or metaphorically, the answer is either Intel's Erik Seligman or Cadence's Jasper product group....
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Industry Trends and Requirements for Autonomous Driving
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three part series focusing on Functional Safety for autonomous driving, Charles Qi discusses the industry trends and requirements for...
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Moore and Medical at ARM TechCon
The second keynote on the first day of ARM TechCon was a double act with Greg Yeric, a fellow from ARM's research labs in Austin, followed by Mike Muller, ARM's CTO. Greg Yeric I have seen Greg talk...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 14th to 18th
(Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: Red Hat's Jon Masters talks about ARM servers and open source Tuesday: ARM's Daryl Stewart talks about making the ARM architecture reference manual...
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What Is Automotive Tool Confidence Level 1?
ISO 26262 is the functional safety standard for automotive, as you probably already know. It is hard to attend any event concerned with semiconductors without hearing about automotive. The automotive...
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Optimizing Power with Palladium
At TSMC's OIP Ecosystem Symposium, Cadence's Frank Schirrmeister presented on Software-Driven Optimization for Performance, Power, and Thermal Tradeoffs . In this case, the "software" doesn't mean...
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Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? The Next Generation High Speed Routing...
Improve Route Channel Utilization with Tabbed Routing Tabbed routing is a new method in which trapezoidal shapes called tabs are added to parallel traces to control impedance in the pin field/breakout...
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Red Hat's Mr ARM Talks Open Source
Jon Masters is in an odd position—he is the chief ARM architect at Red Hat. Since Red Hat must make almost all of its money from selling operating systems and services for x86-based servers, this is...
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What Is the ARM ARM?
The first ARM is the ARM we all know, Advanced RISC Machines (the A originally stood for Acorn but that story is for another day). The second ARM stands for "Architecture Reference Manual". At the...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - MIPI Alliance Interfaces
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Moshik Rubin takes a closer look at the popularity of CSI2, DSI, and other common MIPI protocols. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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