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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 27th to 31st 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from National Automobile Museum, Reno, NV Monday: SDE Circle of Life Today Tuesday: How Lucio Went from Italy to EDA Via Intel Wednesday: My Breakfast...
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Noise Simulation in Spectre RF Using Improved Pnoise/Hbnoise and Direct Plot...
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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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a two-part series, Megha Daga explores Convolutional Neural Networks which are biologically inspired models of neurons in the brain. She details...
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TSMC Technology Symposium 28...22...16...12...7...
This is the second of two posts about last week's TSMC Technology Symposium. The first was yesterday and covered the big picture presented in the morning. It's a good job TSMC doesn't do countdowns for...
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Léman Micro Devices: Blood Pressure on Your Smartphone
One of the most interesting things I saw at MWC was a meeting I had with Mark-Eric Jones. Full disclosure: I've known Mark-Eric for over twenty years and he is a friend. He is CEO of a company called...
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A Seamless Path to the Portable Stimulus Standard
In our last blog post , we reviewed some of the activities at the recent Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition ( DVCon ) in San Jose. Portable stimulus was clearly one of the hot topics at...
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The SDE Circle of Life
There seems to be a big picture phenomenon that I like to call the System Design Enablement (SDE) Circle of Life, whereby IC design knowledge switches from being something to be outsourced to be the...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a two-part series, Megha Daga explores Convolutional Neural Networks which are biologically inspired models of neurons in the brain. She details...
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The SDE Circle of Life Today
This is the second part of a two-part post about the SDE Circle of Life. The first part was on Friday. I like to say that the world changed on January 9th, 2007—at the moment when Hang (Hannah) Zhang,...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 3rd to 7th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from the Cadence parking lot Monday: CASPA Autonomous Driving 1 Tuesday: CASPA Autonomous Driving 2 Wednesday: GOMAC, Government Microelectronics...
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How Lucio Went from Italy to EDA via Intel
Tomorrow, I'll be talking about one of Lucio Lanza's latest areas of interest, having had breakfast with him recently. But I thought I'd also republish a blog post that resulted from a chat that I had...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Architecture
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a two-part series, Megha Daga continues her discussion on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). This week she talks about the different...
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My Breakfast with Lucio
There is a famous 1981 movie called My Dinner with Andre . If you've not seen it, you might expect that it is like most movies and rather more happens than is conveyed in the title. But, no, the movie...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Controlling the Information Displayed on Outputs Setup...
In Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler , it’s not unusual to see a large number of records in the Outputs Setup and Results tabs. At times, the number of records is so high that it is...
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ESD Alliance CEO Panel: April 6th
In the days when the ESD Alliance was still called EDAC, they used to organize a CEO Forecast Panel at the start of the year. This never worked that well since any date chosen would be in one of the...
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Have design rule checking (DRC) tools run out of steam? – Part 2
We are continuing the physical verification blog posts with more questions we hear from advanced node customers. Paul McLellan had a nice blog post on the history of the tools in physical verification...
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CASPA's Autonomous Driving Symposium
Recently, CASPA, the Chinese-American Semiconductor Professionals Association, held a symposium on automotive driving. Having chaired a panel for them once, I seem to be a sort of honorary member...
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From China through Cadence to IMEC
Zhan Gao studied microelectronics in the Xidian University in China and after getting her master’s degree in developing an algorithm to abstract parasitic capacitors at Chinese Academy of Sciences in...
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Autonomous Cars—Are We There Yet?
This is the second of two posts on the CASPA Symposium on Autonomous Driving. The first was CASPA Autonomous Driving 1 . Chia-Lin Simmons Chia-Lin talked on Are We There Yet? Autonomous Cars and Legal...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - A Real-Life Encounter with 3 Benefits of USB Type-C
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett describes his experience as a user of a new laptop incorporating the USB Type-C interface. He explains the 3 main features of USB Type-C and the...
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