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ACE Awards: Palladium Z1 Team Is Design Team of the Year
Every year, UBM, the parent company of EE TImes and EDN (and the organizer of several shows such as ESC and ARM TechCon) has a competition known as the ACE Awards. ACE stands for Annual Creativity in...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Evolution of Ethernet: The World Before Ethernet
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three-part series on Ethernet, Scott Jacobson explores what our world looked like before Ethernet and other networking standards came about....
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CES Highlights
Happy New Year, and the first week of January means it is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Some people hate it, but I like the way that you get a look at what consumers are going to have on their...
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RISCy Business: Next Hogan Evening at ESD Alliance Is RISC-V
The ESD Alliance Emerging Companies have been organizing a series of evening events, sometimes panel sessions, sometimes interviews. The thread tying them all together is that they are hosted by Jim...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 16th to 20th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from my office at Cadence Monday: Review of Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy Tuesday: Steve Mollenkopf's keynote from CES Wednesday:...
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Security the Google Way
The latest RISC-V workshop was held at Google. In the middle of the day, there was an interesting presentation by Eric Grosse. He used to be VP of security at Google but he has recently returned to...
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Bluetooth 5, 4.2, Bluetooth Classic, and Bluetooth LE...Confused Yet?
What is Bluetooth 5? 4.2? Bluetooth Classic? Bluetooth Smart? Low Energy? The naming is confusing, for sure. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (which sounds like a dental convention) announced...
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5G is Coming. Qualcomm Keynote at CES
Steve Mollenkopf, the CEO of Qualcomm, gave one of the keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show recently. Of course Qualcomm is historically a huge fabless semiconductor company that sells mostly into...
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Cadence Academic Network Events in Russia
Despite all of the recent political tensions, Russia remains an attractive market for microelectronics and EDA software. Cadence has two offices in Russia: one medium-sized R&D office in the center...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Using the Hierarchical Color Locking Check
As you incrementally build your design and decompose the layout geometry into masks or colors, you may want to change the color already applied to a shape or a set of shapes. At the same time, you may...
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Security in 2016 and 2017
It's the start of the year, plus the Consumer Electronics Show is over. I've already written about the things that I thought were most significant. One area where I am sure we will be hearing a lot...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Is It That Easy to Edit in the Cadence Virtuoso...
Creating a neat and organized schematic is extremely important, and often requires a great deal of forward planning and effort. Placing, aligning, and distributing objects can be time-consuming, if...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Interconnect Design Verification Challenges
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nimrod Reiss takes a closer look at the verification challenges engineers face when working on interconnect designs. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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Automotive at CES
Automotive was huge at CES. A lot of it went for the glamour without really having much electronics, concept cars which will never see the light of day. But increasingly cars are about electronics. As...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Demystifying the Abstract
You heard it right! It’s Virtuoso Abstract Generator, the popular library modeling tool that lets you create abstracts from detailed layout information in various formats. Abstracts, when used for...
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RISC-V "The thing that you learn and the thing that you use are the same"
The Electronic System Design Alliance (fka EDAC) has been organizing evening meetings every 6 months or so, under the auspices of the emerging companies. These are hosted by Jim Hogan. The latest one...
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Bare Metal Tests and Hardware-Software Co-Verification
One interesting question that arises from time to time is whether the Cadence® Perspec ™ System Verifier can verify software as well as hardware. The question is simple enough, but the answer is more...
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Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions 2017
It's that time of year when pundits try and predict major changes that will happen in 2017. I suppose I'm a pundit, so here are my predictions. I'm at least honest enough to go back and see what I said...
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New Virtuoso ADE Suite Wins Product of the Year
Cadence today announced that its next-generation Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment (ADE) product suite has won a Product of the Year award from Electronic Products magazine. This year marks...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Evolution of Ethernet: The Early Days
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a three-part series, Scott Jacobson describes the birth and formative years of Ethernet, including the contributions of co-inventor Bob...
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