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This year's MemCon keynotes were given by Hugh Durdan, VP of the IP Group at Cadence…

Paul McLellan 21 Oct 2016 • 5 min read

Automotive , ddr5 , Memory , DDR4 , LPDDR4 , Enterprise , cadence , LPDDR , Micron , flash , IoT , SSD , HMC , hbc , DRAM , lpddr5 , HPC , DDR , mobile , ADAS , datacenter , Breakfast Bytes , DDR3 , LPDDR3

Verification

DVCon(x2), DVClub(x2): Portable Stimulus Is Everywhere

In my most recent blog post , I talked about the industry vision for portable stimulus…

tomacadence 21 Oct 2016 • 4 min read

horizontal reuse , DAC , uvm , prototyping , pswg , Perspec , System Development Suite , DVClub , Emulation , DVcon , Accellera , portable stimulus , simulation , System Design and Verification

Breakfast Bytes

How Virtualization Is Changing Networking

On the second day of the Linley Processor conference, the keynote was by Bruce Davie…

Paul McLellan 20 Oct 2016 • 5 min read

virtualization , linley processor conference , VMware , Linley , network virtualization , Breakfast Bytes , networking

Breakfast Bytes

What’s for Breakfast? Preview October 24th to 28th (video)

https://youtu.be/PHVpQ_-tmY8 Monday: The IoT attacks, with the biggest distributed…

Paul McLellan 19 Oct 2016 • less than a min read

security , OIP , vast , Automotive , virtualization , functional safety , IoT , distributed denial of service , VMware , botnet , TSMC , vm/370 , Internet of Things , DVcon , DVCon Europe , ISO 26262 , ADAS , sophia antipolis , ddos , fusa , reliability , Virtutech

Breakfast Bytes

Andrzej Strojvas, the 2016 Kaufman Award Recipient

This year's Kaufman Award recipient is Andrzej Strojvas. He is the Keithley professor…

Paul McLellan 19 Oct 2016 • 5 min read

Andrzej Strojvas , Kaufman Award , cmu , pdf solutions , EDAC , carnegie meilon university , kaufman , Breakfast Bytes , esd alliance

Academic Network

Try These Innovative Online Educational Tools

Web applications for electronics design provide an environment where users can apply…

ChristinaK 19 Oct 2016 • 6 min read

EDA Playground , Cadence Academic Network , Spicy VOLTsim , Incisive simulator , ElvisLab

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Error Injection: Predefined and Callbacks

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, James David talks about the benefits…

References4U 18 Oct 2016 • less than a min read

Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , VIP , SoC

SoC and IP

3 Reasons That the Semiconductor Clouds Are Gathering

With cloud technology going vertical, everything is changing. The world is connected…

Steve Brown 18 Oct 2016 • 3 min read

CDNLive , PCIe Gen4 , virtual reality , augmented reality

Breakfast Bytes

Silicon on Nothing: the Origins of FD-SOI

Yesterday, I wrote about the new 12FDX process, which is a derivative of the original…

Paul McLellan 18 Oct 2016 • 5 min read

stm , 22fdx , 12fdx , ST , Samsung , gf , silicon on nothing , FinFET , GlobalFoundries , thomas skotnicki , Breakfast Bytes , FD-SOI

System, PCB, & Package Design

Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? So How Does Your Design “Stack-Up”? (Reason 5 of…

We are not talking about how your design compares to the next guys’, we’re talking…

eba1221 17 Oct 2016 • 4 min read

Routing , Rigid-Flex , MCAD-ECAD , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2

Breakfast Bytes

GLOBALFOUNDRIES' Dual Roadmap

The Story So Far GLOBALFOUNDRIES had a 28nm Hi-K PolySi process. I think that…

Paul McLellan 16 Oct 2016 • 5 min read

glofo , 22fdx , 12fdx , 14nm , emram , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Creating Net Groups and Constraining Them with Spacing Using…

In this new age of complex designs and scaling of technology nodes, there are more…

AbhaRawat 14 Oct 2016 • 4 min read

Advanced Node , Virtuoso Schematic XL , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , VLS XL , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

How to Verify MIPI Protocols

At the recent MIPI DevCon, Cadence's Ofir Michaeli gave two presentations on verification…

Paul McLellan 14 Oct 2016 • 5 min read

Verification IP , layered protocol , VIP , MIPI , mipi devcon , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What’s for Breakfast? Preview October 17th to 21st (video)

https://youtu.be/P3jRt2HEe8U Monday: GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced new nodes on their…

Paul McLellan 13 Oct 2016 • less than a min read

glofo , Memory , linley processor conference , MemCon , network function virtualization , Cisco , Carnegie Mellon University , Andrzej Strojvas , VMware , Kaufman Award , 12fdx , cmu , network virtualization , pdf solutions , ST Microelectronics , GlobalFoundries , thomas skotnicki , kaufman

Breakfast Bytes

MemCon 2016: Storage Class Memory

MemCon, the annual all-things-memory conference originally started by Denali and…

Paul McLellan 13 Oct 2016 • 7 min read

vertical flash , SCM , Memory , MemCon , LPDDR , flash , storage class memory , IBM , ddrx , DRAM , DDR , Breakfast Bytes

System, PCB, & Package Design

What’s Good About Allegro PCB Editor Backdrill Capability? New Capabilities in 17…

The 17.2 Allegro PCB Editor has improved backdrill capabilities. Backdrill data…

Jerry GenPart 12 Oct 2016 • 3 min read

PCB , PCB Layout and routing , Allegro 17.2 , Allegro GUI , layer stacks , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2 , Allegro