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Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy
One of the perks of writing this blog is that I get offered review copies of interesting books related to the semiconductor industry. It is hard to go a day without hearing about IoT security issues...
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Integrated Bus Routing Solution
For most chips, the automatic routing in Innovus—NanoRoute—works well. But there are certain styles of chips that are more challenging for a grid-based router to do clean structured routing. Large die...
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The Second Embedded Neural Network Symposium
A couple of weeks ago, Cadence held the second embedded neural network symposium (ENNS). Neural networks are a hot topic. In fact, this was the biggest event ever held on the Cadence campus with over...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Eye Masks
Have you ever plotted an eye diagram in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL and wished that you could overlay an industry standard eye mask to see if your diagram is compliant? Well, now you can!...
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Making Hardware Design Great Again in 2017
Ok, I admit it… that title is a blatant attempt to grab your attention. But it should also make you think. As a hardware designer, is your job great? Is it what you thought you’d be doing when you...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview February 20th to 24th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from inside a Microsoft Hololens Monday: High Speed Parallel Simulation Tuesday: Embargoed release tied to SPIE Advanced Lithography Wednesday:...
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EDA Workshop in Taiwan
Cadence Academic Network recently participated in the 2016 IEEE and CEDA Workshop on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) in Taipei. The event attracted over 200 attendees from academia. This workshop...
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Jeff Bier: When Every Device Can See
Jeff Bier is the founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance, which runs the annual Embedded Vision Summit (and other things). You won't be surprised to learn that his talk at the Embedded Neural Network...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Coherent Interconnect Verification Challenges
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nimrod Reiss discusses the challenges of verifying a coherent interconnect such as snoop filtering, throughput and latency, and dealing with third-party...
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Kunle Olukotun: Scaling Machine Learning Performance
The keynote at the recent Embedded Neural Network Symposium held recently at Cadence was given by Kunle Olukotun who is a professor at Stanford sponsored by Cadence. His keynote was titled Scaling...
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Chris Rowen: Neural Networks—The New Moore's Law
In addition to being the master of ceremonies for the recent embedded neural network symposium, Chris Rowen also presented his own thoughts. Chris used to be the CTO of Tensilica, and after Cadence...
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Neural Networks and the Future
The Panel Session The recent embedded neural network symposium held at Cadence wrapped up with a panel session. Chris Rowen was the moderator and I think the panelists were Han Song, Ren Wu, Forest...
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What Sort of Bugs Does Portable Stimulus Find?
In a recent blog post , we discussed some general concepts of bugs, problems, issues, and features. We gave examples of different types of bugs typically found during the functional verification of...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Noise Simulation in Spectre RF Using Improved...
Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM 15.1 and IC6.1.7 /ICADV12.2 releases? These forms have been significantly improved and simplified. The Direct Plot Form...
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Cat-NB1 and HaLow Wireless Links Powered by Tensilica Fusion F1
A generic Internet of Things (IoT) device consists of some sensors, some computations, and a wireless interface. (There are other types of designs but those are the basics.) IoT devices are...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Memory Models Runtime Control
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dharini SubashChandran explains how to control the behavior of memory models during simulation. (Please visit the site to view this video)
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Putting a Rocket Under Incisive
When Cadence first acquired RocketSim, I wrote a post, Omnia Simulation in Tres Partes Divisa Est , about how simulation was like Gaul, divided into three parts. The three parts were: Interpreted...
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Three New Memory Trends in Enterprise Data Centers
You might have seen the graph below about the increase in monthly internet traffic around the world. Ever wondered what was causing it? If you think all that traffic is simply due to people...
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Making Hardware Design Great Again in 2017
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview February 26th to March 2nd 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from inside the Intel Museum, Santa Clara Monday: Embargoed release Tuesday: Embargoed release Wednesday: Embargoed release Thursday: Preview of...
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