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All the Ps: the Photonics PDK Panel

By Paul McLellan | 19 Feb 2019

At DesignCon at the end of January, there was a panel on photonics. The title was Photonics Coming of Age: The Emergence of PDKs. The panelists were: Moderator James Pond of Lumerical (CTO). Lumerical provides photonic simulation software (and more)...

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Lumerical | silicon photonics | photonics
Sunday Brunch Video for 17th February 2019

By Paul McLellan | 17 Feb 2019

https://youtu.be/ZuoAfBXsbGw Made in front of the green screen (camera Sean) Monday: SPIE 2019: Light Entertainment Tuesday: DVCon Preview: The Year of PSS Wednesday: MWC Barcelona: 5G in Catalonia Thursday: Embedded in Nuremberg Friday: Presidents&#...

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MWC | mwc barcelona | DVcon | SPIE | Embedded World | embeddedworld
Presidents' Day Off-Topic: Why You Can't Say "Red Little Riding Hood"

By Paul McLellan | 15 Feb 2019

Monday is Presidents' Day, and Cadence (in the US) will be off for the day. Breakfast Bytes will be off too, and as is now traditional, the post before the break is about whatever I feel like. Today, some obscurities about English that you probab...

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spelling | off topic | language
Virtuosity: In-design Electromigration Analysis - An efficient way to make layouts electrically correct

By NamrataM | 14 Feb 2019

Shrinking size of ICs with highly complex layouts containing billions of transistors and miles of interconnects....all of this doesn't sound new now. The industry has been pretty fast in adopting advanced node designs and has witnessed various innovations to overcome the challenges faced at this level...

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electromigration | ICADV12.3 | ICADVM18.1 | EM/IR | Layout Suite | IC6.1.7 | EM | electrically-aware design | IR drop | IC6.1.8
Embedded in Nuremberg

By Paul McLellan | 14 Feb 2019

The last week of February is Embedded World (or, in fact, embeddedworld since they fashionably use all lower case). It is 26th to 28th February in the Exhibition Center. It is the same week as MWC Barcelona, DVCon (San Jose), and SPIE Advanced Lithog...

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automotive | Nuremberg | Embedded World