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Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , IC Release Blog Announcement , Virtuoso
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Learning is the New Programming: Neural Nets

Whenever I hear of "deep learning," it makes me think of Deep Thought, the computer…

• 4 min read
deep learning , embedded vision , learning , Tensilica , vision , neural networks , CNN , neural nets , embedded neural nets

Verification

UVM-ML OA: Now Within Incisive Platform As Well!

Open-source software has many advantages. In short: you can see it (the code), you…

• 3 min read
Specman , UVM-ML OA , Incisive , multi-language

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How to Overlay Shapes on Top of Sets of Reference Objects with the Latest Cadence…

Many of you are familiar with the bond finger soldermask opening creation tool—used…

• 3 min read
bounding shapes , SiP , IC package design , APD , beta tools , package design , shapes

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Automotive Test, How to Use Just Two Pins

Automotive chips often suffer from a limited chip interface in which most of the…

• 4 min read
Automotive , two pin test , JTAG , tap , manchester encoding , tap controller , low pin count test

Breakfast Bytes

Internet of Things: How Will They Be Built?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is not really a market, it is a catchall term for devices…

• 3 min read
security , IoT , MIPI , CSI , encryption , wearables , fitness tracker , Internet of Things , drones , FitBit , power

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How ARM Servers Can Take Over the World

One of the big themes of the Linley Data Center Conference last week was the possibility…

• 4 min read
ARMv8 , Intel , AMD , arm servers , red hat , broadcom , Qualcomm , AppliedMicro , ARM , linux

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Care for Some Gates With Your Server?

One of the big themes from the Linley Data Center Conference earlier this month was…

• 4 min read
Intel , GPU , data center , Altera , HBM , cloud , High Bandwidth Memory , Stratix , datacenter , FPGA , cloud computing

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Ethernet and Automotive Electronics

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra follows up on last week…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Automotive Ethernet , automotive electronics

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Cadence at embedded world—ADAS, the Stepping Stone to Self-Driving Cars

Cadence will be at embedded world in Nüremberg from February 23 to 26. We will be…

• 3 min read
functional safety , vision processing , nüremburg , ECU , Automotive Ethernet , Tensilica , ISO 26262 , Embedded World , video processing , audioprocessing , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Functional Verification Closure—Are We Done Yet?

In my job as product marketing director for vManager and MDV, I get to hear this…

• 4 min read
methodology , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Metric Driven Verification , vPlan , Incisive , Plan and metrics management , vManager

Breakfast Bytes

Interface IP in Consumer Electronics

What is the consumer marketplace? It is a bit of a tautology, but it is electronic…

• 3 min read
IP , Consumer Electronics , interface IP , Breakfast Bytes

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Software-Driven Hardware Verification

There is a transition going on in the system and semiconductor worlds. Some system…

• 4 min read
palladium z1 , virtual platform , Palladium , Emulation , software , Breakfast Bytes , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Shape Edit Application Mode? New Capabilities…

The Allegro PCB Editor 16.6-2015 release provides Shape Edit Application Mode, a…

• 6 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , Allegro GUI , Allegro 16.6 , Routing , High Speed , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Where Ethernet Is Used in Automotive Electronics

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra takes a closer look at…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Automotive Ethernet , Ethernet

Breakfast Bytes

Where You Going? Barcelona (and Mobile World Congress)

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is later this month in Barcelona in Spain (actually in…

• 3 min read
mwc16 , barcelona , Mobile World Congress , MWC , Tensilica , tensilican vision dsp , tensilica hifi , Breakfast Bytes

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Autonomous Vehicles and the Semiconductor Industry: a Double-Edged Sword

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how automotive companies are going to need to…

• 3 min read
Automotive , sidecar , lyft , ADAS , autonomous vehicles , general motors

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How to Maximize Performance When Your Package Layout Gets Complicated

We are all familiar with it. Every year, designs get faster, smaller, and more complicated…

• 6 min read
Cadence Design Systems , SiP , Digital SiP design , IC package design , APD , package design , Allegro Package Designer

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Datacenter in a Can

Earlier this week I wrote about the Linley Data Center Conference and how Thermal…

• 3 min read
microsoft , data center , google , thermal , cooling , power

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"Thermal is the New Power" and Melting Butter with Your Phone

For some time now, SoC design groups have had to optimize PPA: performance, power…

• 4 min read
thermal management , PPA , thermal , power
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