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We Live on a Radioactive Planet Bombarded by Cosmic Rays
We live on a radioactive planet bombarded by cosmic rays. As a result, high-energy neutrons are a fact of life. This can lead to errors caused by single-event effects, or usually just SEE. SEE cause...
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Autonomous Is the New Mobile: Linley on Cars
Cars are everywhere these days. It doesn't really matter what sort of event you attend in the semiconductor ecosystem, you will hear a lot about cars. In fact, even if you go to the movies. The...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 24th to 28th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from the Cadence coffee bar Monday: The $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W Tuesday: The Safest Train Is One That Never Leaves the Station Wednesday: The IRDS...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Von Neumann's 5 Bottlenecks and CCIX - Part 1
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett traces the evolution of the von Neumann computer architecture through a series of adaptations intended to bypass processing bottlenecks that...
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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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Ricardo's Difficult Idea
Today is an important anniversary. It is part of the explanation of why we design chips in silicon valley but manufacture them in Taiwan. Or why, on the back of every iPhone, it says "Designed by Apple...
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See Further by Standing on the Shoulders of...OpenVX
For power and performance reasons, video and vision processing are attractive to offload from the main processor in a datacenter or in an embedded device. An Intel x86 server processor, or a 64-bit ARM...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 10th to 14th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Monterey CA Monday: Preview of DAC keynotes Tuesday: First Day of CDNLive Silicon Valley and an Announcement Wednesday: Paolo Gargini's...
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CCIX is Pronounced C6
Cache coherency has become a big issue as the architecture inside devices such as smartphones and datacenter CPUs has got more complicated. In the old days...which sounds like the start of fairy...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Run Point Selection -WYSIWYG
With Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler , it is easy to create setups of corners, variables and parameters that are quite complex to work with. Sometimes you just want to run a few...
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Software Isn't the S in SDE
System Design Enablement (SDE) is about designing optimal systems, focusing effort on areas that make a difference to the end customer. If you are reading this, then you already know that Cadence sells...
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SoC Verification with Portable Stimulus Using Perspec System Verifier
This year’s CDNLive San Jose was another gem. Many great keynotes, customer presentations, and technical updates. There were several mentions of Machine Learning, both in general about the emergence of...
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SoC Verification with Portable Stimulus Using Perspec System Verifier
This year’s CDNLive San Jose was another gem. Many great keynotes, customer presentations, and technical updates. There were several mentions of Machine Learning, both in general about the emergence of...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 10th to 14th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Monterey CA Monday: Preview of DAC keynotes Tuesday: First Day of CDNLive Silicon Valley and an Announcement Wednesday: Paolo Gargini's...
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SoC Verification with Portable Stimulus Using Perspec System Verifier
This year’s CDNLive San Jose was another gem. Many great keynotes, customer presentations, and technical updates. There were several mentions of Machine Learning, both in general about the emergence of...
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The $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W
Roger Thornton of the Raspberry Pi foundation talked about designing their latest computer, the Raspberry Pi Zero W, which is a tiny single-board computer even smaller than the original Raspberry Pi...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 1st to 5th 2017
(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Millennium Park, Chicago Monday: Embedded Vision Summit announcement Tuesday: Microsemi Experience with Pegasus DRC Wednesday: Preview of CDNLive...
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"The Safest Train Is One that Never Leaves the Station"
The Sunday and Monday at IRPS are tutorial days, with multiple tracks. On Monday I attended the automotive track. IRPS has historically been very focused on device reliability, things like device aging...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - Convolutional Neural Network Challenges
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Megha Daga takes a closer look at the compute requirements and memory bandwidth challenges that are faced in Convolutional Neural Networks today. (Please...
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The IRDS Panel at IRPS
Confused by those names? The conference is the International Reliability and Physics Symposium, IRPS. The panel is on IRDS, the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, which is the new...
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