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The Internet of Space
At EDPS back in May (yes, I know I'm behind), Andrew Filo talked about Building the Internet of Space (IOS) . He is an independent consultant but works with places like NASA Ames and was a consultant...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 5th to 9th
(Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: James Adams of the Raspberry Pi foundation talks about how Cadence PCB tools were used to design the Raspberry Pi Tuesday: At the recent RISC-V...
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RISC-V 5th Workshop Highlights
The fifth (V th ?) RISC-V workshop took place this week at Google in Mountain View. This was actually the third workshop this year. Rick O'Connor, the executive director of the RISC-V foundation,...
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Analog Design Resonance: Playing with Violation Filters
We'd like to welcome guest writer Yanyan Qiao from our Cadence Japan AE team. Many thanks for her contribution! Today analog design has become very challenging. Analog circuit designers need tools...
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James Adams Talks About How Raspberry Pi Was Designed
I wrote recently about Eben Upton's presentation about the genesis of business-card-sized Raspberry Pi, and how they went from optimistically hoping to sell 10,000 to surpassing 10 million three months...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Extending Trunks for Selected Nets While Routing
You must have come across and experienced the capabilities of Pin to Trunk routing and its robust features. The Pin to Trunk routing connects an individual pin to a trunk. This routing style is usually...
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Bluetooth 5: Making Your Smart Home a Reality
We all know the futuristic vision of the world just around the corner. The vision where we tell our smart home that we’ve just left work at the end of a long day, and we’re heading home. Our home then...
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RISC-V Available in Silicon
One of the announcements at the recent RISC-V workshop was by SiFive. This is the company started by the creators of the RISC-V instruction set architecture (Krste, Andrew, and Yunsup) to commercialize...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Extending Trunks for Selected Nets While Routing
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Perspectives on Developing EDA Standards
Last week, my colleague Paul McLellan published a blog post on the standardization work underway within the Portable Stimulus Working Group ( PSWG ) of Accellera Systems Initiative. He did a nice job...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays—What's New with PCI Express Gen4
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the last of a 3-part series, Lana Chan discusses the evolution of PCI Express and the changes associated with PCIe Gen 4. (Please visit the site to view this...
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IEDM: The Big Decisions for 5nm
The Sunday of IEDM there were two all-day short courses. The one I attended was Technology Options for the 5nm Node . It was organized by An Steegen of imec. I am not going to attempt to cover the...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Using the New IE-Card Based Setup in ADE Explorer
Interface Element (IE) Setup can be one of the most challenging parts in AMS Designer. If you use the traditional Connect Rule/Connect Modue Based Setup , it requires you to juggle between multiple...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 12th to 16th
(Please visit the site to view this video) Monday: Lip-Bu Tan is honored by GSA with the Maurice Chang Exemplary Leadership Award Tuesday: IEDM, the International Electronic Devices Meeting. I'll cover...
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Can Computers Think? Or Understand Chinese?
I have been working with computers for a long time. I first learned to program in the late 1960s, when a computer was a mainframe in a special room with its priesthood of operators, a long way from the...
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How to Tailor Your PCB and IC Package Modeling With "Cut and Stitch" to...
As an experienced SI expert, you likely apply multiple solvers and simulators to accomplish your high-speed design tasks; from abstract circuit simulation to detailed 3D EM analysis. And quite often,...
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Tensilica at CES: Hololens Will Be There, Will You?
It's a new year soon. And that means New Year Resolutions. I will go to the gym...and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Microsoft Hololens You might have seen something about the...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Using the New IE-Card Based Setup in ADE Explorer
Interface Element (IE) Setup can be one of the most challenging parts in AMS Designer. If you use the traditional Connect Rule/Connect Modue Based Setup , it requires you to juggle between multiple...
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IEDM: 7nm from TSMC and IBM/GLOBALFOUNDRIES/Samsung
At IEDM last week, there were papers in eight parallel tracks for three days. At the end of session #2, on the first day, there were two "late" papers by TSMC and by the consortium of IBM,...
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Meet the BarCamp Concept!
BarCamp was inspired by an invitation-only participant-driven conference, named Foo Camp . The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, in 2005. Since then it has become an international trend...
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