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DesignCon 2019: Is this the Year?

By BillAcito | 15 Jan 2019

2019 has started --- is this the year of advanced packaging, where system design enablement shifts to the package? If you are attending DesignCon (designcon.com) in Santa Clara, California, in a few weeks, there’s a robust agenda, and it might ...

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DesignCon | packaging
Verification of ML IP and Specman—Our Hackathon Project

By teamspecman | 15 Jan 2019

If you are lucky enough and your company spends a few working days each year on a Hackathon, you must know that it is usually a lot of fun. The latest 2018 Hackathon in Cadence was all about Machine Learning. We, in Specman R&D, debated a bit around how to approach the topic since Machine Learning means...

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ml | Specman | Specman/e | Specman e | machine learning | specman elite | verification coverage | verification
AMD Keynote at CES

By Paul McLellan | 15 Jan 2019

As I said in my post about CES last week (see my post Consumer Electronics: 5G, AI, and Air Taxis ), I'm not sure if can read anything into it but the "semiconductor" keynote was given by AMD and not, as historically been the case, Intel...

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Lisa Su | CES | AMD
Tensilica at CES

By Paul McLellan | 14 Jan 2019

Tensilica has been attending CES for many years, before it was acquired by Cadence. The focus used to be on audio processing, with the HiFi family of processors. In fact, as I said in my preview post for this year's CES (see CES Preview ), we now...

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hifi 5 | CES | Vision P6 | Tensilica | dna100
Accurate Pin-to-Pin Resistance Modeling for Wide, Slotted Metal Structures Using Advanced Adaptive Mesh Extraction Technology in Quantus

By Shritam | 11 Jan 2019

In Analog/RF layouts, designers frequently use slotted metal structures. Such slotting is done either to satisfy DRC requirements from foundries to satisfy max. density rule criteria, or to reduce eddy current losses in return paths of a transmission line/coiled spiral inductor. Current flow in such...

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Extraction | Quantus