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Static Members in e

How do you define elegant or clean code? Usually, you know it when you see it; defining…

teamspecman 12 Mar 2017 • 9 min read

Specman , Incisive , e language , static , xcelium , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Reliability in Monterey: a Preview of IRPS

The major conference on semiconductor reliability is the International Reliability…

Paul McLellan 10 Mar 2017 • 4 min read

international reliability and physics symposium , Intel , IBM , Monterey , irps , NASA , reliability

Breakfast Bytes

GF Silicon Photonics: Fiber Attach Is the Secret Sauce

A lot of constraints in datacenters are fixed even though others are increasing.…

Paul McLellan 9 Mar 2017 • 5 min read

fiber attach , linley group , linley cloud hardware conference , silicon photonics , GlobalFoundries

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Noise Simulation in Spectre RF Using Improved Pnoise/Hbnoise…

Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM…

KamalKishore 8 Mar 2017 • 4 min read

Spectre RF , noise simulation , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Video Diary

Breakfast Bytes

MWC: The Future of Mobile: Part 2

This is the second of a two part post about the future of mobile, long-term dreams…

Paul McLellan 8 Mar 2017 • 9 min read

softbank , veon , at&t , gsma , Mobile World Congress , ARM

SoC and IP

Memory Trends for Automotive Markets

Remember automobiles from a few years ago? They were pretty simple machines with…

Priyab 8 Mar 2017 • 4 min read

Design IP , IP , Memory , LPDDR4 , LPDDR , DIP , memory IP , Design IP and Verification IP , memories

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Eliminate the Memory Bottleneck with Universal Flash Sto…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Ofir Michaeli discusses Universal Flash…

References4U 7 Mar 2017 • less than a min read

Whiteboard Wednesdays , UFS

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 13th to 17th 2017

https://youtu.be/ZhpHKzcdVK8 Coming from San Jose City Hall Monday: ESD…

Paul McLellan 7 Mar 2017 • less than a min read

energy policy , linley group , IoT , DRC , Mobile World Congress , TSMC , linley cloud hardware conference , TSMC Technology Symposium , MWC , Internet of Things , design rule checking , optical networking , esd alliance , networking

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MWC: The Future of Mobile: Part 1

There were two sessions that MWC calls "keynotes", but are actually groups of several…

Paul McLellan 7 Mar 2017 • 8 min read

softbank , veon , at&t , gsma , Mobile World Congress , ARM

Breakfast Bytes

MWC: Everything is Mobile Now

Every year, Mobile World Congress (MWC) takes place in Barcelona, Spain. Historically…

Paul McLellan 6 Mar 2017 • 10 min read

Mobile World Congress , un sdg , sustainable development goals , nokia , MWC , netflix , mobile , mdg , strive masiyawa , millennium development goals , africa

Verification

Specman in Xcelium

Just recently Cadence announced the new superb simulator, Xcelium . Just as Specman…

teamspecman 6 Mar 2017 • 5 min read

IEEE 1647 , funtional verification , Specman , Functional Verification , e , e language , Funcional Verification , specman elite , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , verification , IES-XL

Verification

Portable Stimulus Shines at DVCon

For me, this week was almost entirely consumed with the Design and Verification Conference…

tomacadence 4 Mar 2017 • 4 min read

uvm , prototyping , pswg , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Perspec , System Design and Verification , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , Simulation acceleration , DVcon , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Hardware/software co-verification , portable stimulus , simulation , verification