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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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Mobile World Congress: Hololens and More
From February 27th to March 2nd it is Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. CES in Las Vegas is the conference for consumer electronics, and although there are mobile phones around, the big...
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DesignCon and Target Impedance
It was DesignCon recently. It is a bit of a weird conference since it covers a wide range of topics, and the exhibition is even weirder, ranging from $200,000 oscilloscopes to Cadence IP and signal...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Why Should you Switch to the Expression Builder for...
Here’s how you can create expressions using the Expression Builder in 4 easy steps, and just to remind you, you won’t need to use the calculator: How many times have you opened the calculator and been...
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2nd Tensilica Day in Hanover: AR, IoT, Automotive. Pick What You Like
After the successful Tensilica Day at Hanover University last year ( presentations , blog ), it was quite a no-brainer to suggest having another one year later. To make an appealing program is already...
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Xcelium: Parallel Simulation for the Next Decade
This morning, Cadence announced two new products in the verification space: Xcelium, and Protium S1. The Cadence implementation and signoff products now all end in "US" (well, you have to squint to...
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Protium: Next Generation FPGA Prototyping
FPGA prototyping is a very attractive tool for some aspects of verification. Apart from actually getting silicon back from manufacturing, it is the fastest model of a chip that you can get. It is...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 6th to 10th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain Monday: MWC: Overview of the Conference Tuesday: MWC; Major Trends in Mobile: Dream vs Reality Wednesday:...
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Making Hardware Design Great Again in 2017 - Part Deux
In part one of this series, we talked about the role of the hardware designer, specifically comparing the ideal version of the hardware designer with the real-world version. From the emails I received,...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Simplifying SoC Verification with Interconnect Workbench
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Shin Chan Kang explains how the Cadence Interconnect Workbench (IWB) helps you with SoC interconnect verification and performance analysis by auto-generating...
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Litho Physical Analyzer PLUS
Next week it is the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference (and DVCon, and MWC in Barcelona, busy week). Cadence will be presenting a paper on Litho Physical Analyzer PLUS (LPA PLUS). This is a product...
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Do You Know What Stingray Is?
If you are my age and grew up in Britain, then Stingray was one of the fore-runners of Thunderbirds (and Team America: World Police , in a rather different sense), made with marionettes rather than...
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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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Intel's Investor Conference: Now Leading with Datacenter
Intel had its investor day recently. I'm not going to talk about Intel as an investment. However, as the largest semiconductor company, with 98% market share in datacenter processors and a leader in...
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Portable Stimulus Shines at DVCon
For me, this week was almost entirely consumed with the Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition ( DVCon ) at the familiar DoubleTree in San Jose. The hotel has replaced its chandeliers with...
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Specman in Xcelium
Just recently Cadence announced the new superb simulator, Xcellium. Just as Specman was part of the previous simulator, IES, it is now part of Xcellium. As always, we keep enhancing and developing...
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MWC: Everything is Mobile Now
Every year, Mobile World Congress (MWC) takes place in Barcelona, Spain. Historically, if you wander around the show floor, the biggest booths are the network equipment vendors, followed by the handset...
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MWC: The Future of Mobile: Part 1
There were two sessions that MWC calls "keynotes", but are actually groups of several presentations on the state of the industry. Together, the two big ones on the first day paint a picture of the...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 13th to 17th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from San Jose City Hall Monday: ESD Alliance Panel on Energy Policy for the IoT Era Tuesday: Cadence at MWC: Does This Headset Make Me Look Silly?...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Eliminate the Memory Bottleneck with Universal Flash...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Ofir Michaeli discusses Universal Flash Storage (UFS) and how this standard can help eliminate the memory bottleneck need to support the high performance,...
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