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MWC: The Future of Mobile: Part 2
This is the second of a two part post about the future of mobile, long-term dreams compared to short-term reality. Part 1 was yesterday's post The Future of Mobile: Part 1 . AT&T First of the...
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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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Memory Trends for Automotive Markets
Remember automobiles from a few years ago? They were pretty simple machines with lots of small microprocessors distributed across the whole vehicle and doing fairly simple tasks. Semiconductors have...
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GF Silicon Photonics: Fiber Attach Is the Secret Sauce
A lot of constraints in datacenters are fixed even though others are increasing. Networking bandwidth is doubling every two years. However, faceplate density is fixed, so there needs to be more...
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Reliability in Monterey: a Preview of IRPS
The major conference on semiconductor reliability is the International Reliability and Physics Symposium . Although a lot of the focus these days is on semiconductors, the symposium been going on for...
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Static Members in e
How do you define elegant or clean code? Usually, you know it when you see it; defining it is harder. It is usually a simple, clear and well-structured code. OO programming languages (like Java, C++,...
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Static Members in e
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ESD Alliance Panel on Energy Policy for the IoT Era
Everyone knows that IoT devices need to have very low power for all sorts of internal reasons, nothing to do with the energy policy. Saving energy is simply a good thing. But the California Energy...
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Have DRC Tools Run Out of Steam? – Part 1
In the EDA history of design rule check (DRC), there has been two distinct eras so far. The first is the era of a single run on a single CPU that enabled designers to run their DRC on technology nodes...
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Cadence at MWC: Does This Headset Make Me Look Silly?
Cadence has attended MWC ever since it acquired Tensilica, and they attended for years before that. Tensilica DSPs are used in many areas within mobile for audio processing, video processing,...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Display Stream Compression: Higher Display...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Alex Passi takes a closer look at Display Stream Compression and how it is used over the MIPI DSI protocol to deliver higher display resolutions to mobile...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Real-Time Tuning—A lot More Than Just an Assistant!
Have you ever found yourself in situations where you’re not sure which values of design variables or parameters could give you the desired simulation results? Or, have you come across situations that...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 20th to 24th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from TSMC Technology Symposium, Santa Clara Monday: Preview of CDNLive Silicon Valley Tuesday: TSMC Technology Symposium, first report Wednesday: TSMC...
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TSMC Announces New 12FFC Process
Today at the TSMC Technology Symposium, Cliff Hou, TSMC's VP of R&D, is set to announce the latest member of TSMC's process portfolio, 12FFC. Of course, given the name, you will guess that this is...
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Andy Bechtolsheim Keynote on the Future of Networking
At the recent Linley Cloud Hardware Conference, the keynote was given by Andy Bechtolsheim. Even if you can't quite remember who he is, you've probably heard his name. He is currently founder and...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Display Stream Compression: Higher Display...
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Alex Passi takes a closer look at Display Stream Compression and how it is used over the MIPI DSI protocol to deliver higher display resolutions to mobile...
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Dracula, Vampire, Assura, PVS: A Brief History
Cadence was created from the merger of SDA and ECAD, as you probably know. SDA had a number of products, by then including a layout editor that would become Virtuoso, which included an interactive DRC...
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CDNLive Silicon Valley Preview
BREAKING NEWS: I just received an email that the panel I wrote about at ESD Alliance Panel on Energy Policy for the IoT Era has been postponed to a later date due to "unforeseen circumstances." I don't...
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The Worldwide MEMS Design Contest Officially Starts
Cadence, X-FAB, Coventor and Reutlingen University have Selected 10 Design Teams as Semi-Finalists Cadence Academic Network, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University have teamed up since the beginning...
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TSMC Technology Roadmaps
TSMC had their annual Technology Symposium last week. As always, my post comes with a caveat: TSMC will not allow pictures to be taken, recordings to be made, and they don't hand out any materials....
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