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RSA Cryptographers' Panel

By Paul McLellan | 25 Apr 2018

The RSA Conference is the biggest conference in security. This year there are 50,000 attendees. Yes, security is on everyone's radar, finally. It is in the Moscone center, in all of North, South, and West. Although it feels like the conference is...

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quantum computing | security | rsa conference | rsa | cryptography | Spectre
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Automotive Sensors: Concepts and Trends

By Corrie Callenbach | 24 Apr 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a three-part series, Robert Schweiger does a deep dive on the technical aspects of the different sensors on a car: camera, radar, and lidar. For all three sensors the trend is the same: Increased...

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automotive | Whiteboard Wednesdays | lidar | radar | camera
Why the Future of Electrical Engineering is in Peril

By Meera Collier | 24 Apr 2018

I was looking around at CDNLive a couple of weeks ago, and something struck me about the demographics of the people that were there. You can guess, of course, that they were mostly male, and of diverse ethnic backgrounds. This is not news. What I not...

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Interns | Cadence Academic Network | Cadence on the Beat | design gap
SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (8 of 8)

By Team Sigrity | 24 Apr 2018

Automated Compliance Checking With detailed post-layout interconnect in place, and the IBIS-AMI models properly executing, attention can turn to compliance checking for the specific interface of interest, which is PCI Express Gen 4 in our example. Ea...

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Serial link analysis | SI | IBIS-AMI | PCIe | signal integrity | Compliance Checking | SerDes | Sigrity
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 30th to May 4th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 24 Apr 2018

https://youtu.be/Zpui6QhXM_o Coming from The San Jose Tech Museum (camera Sean) Monday: AMI for DDR5 Tuesday: TSMC related embargoed announcement Wednesday: TSMC related announcement Thursday: TSMC Technology Symposium ...

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ddr5 | AMI | the tech | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium | algorithmic modeling interface
Tech Blog Series: Sensitivity Analysis+Optimization — Now That's Formidable!

By Ronak Shah | 24 Apr 2018

Anyone who designs complex circuits and claims they don’t use the Optimizer on their design is most likely a super-genius with an IQ of 250. Sure, most of you have used the Optimizer on your circuit before. But, have you used it in combination with...

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RF | OrCAD Capture | PSPICE | PCB design
Linley: Training in the Datacenter, Inference at the Edge

By Paul McLellan | 24 Apr 2018

In mid-April I was at the Linley Processor Conference. As usual, Linley Gwennap gave the opening keynote. He titled it How Well Does Your Processor Support AI? which was the perfect straight man question for us since we were using the conference...

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artificial intelligence | linley group | IoT | Linley | Tensilica | neural network | datacenter
ISPD18 Contest and Cadence Academic Network Cloud Solutions

By Zaidan | 23 Apr 2018

ISPD is the International Symposium on Physical Design. The ISPD contest is a well-known competition in EDA field, where the main idea is to have EDA companies sharing the industrial problems they are facing to the academic community to drive practic...

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university | ISPD18 Contest | Cadence Academic Network | academia | EDA | Cadence Academic Network Cloud Solutions | university program
Virtuosity: What's New in Run plan – Part I

By Yagya Mishra | 23 Apr 2018

The Run Plan assistant in Virtuoso ADE Assembler has proved to be one of the most popular features. It provides the capability to create multiple variations of the setup within a single session, each of these runs has their own setup details that override...

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Run Plans | ADE | Virtuoso Analog Design Environment | calibration | Virtuoso | Virtuosity | Run Plan | runplan | Verifier Run Plan | Assembler
TSMC Technology Symposium Preview: Note New Location!

By Paul McLellan | 23 Apr 2018

Before I go any further, after years and years of being at the San Jose Convention Center, this year's TSMC Technology Symposium has moved. It will be in the Santa Clara Convention Center. And, while on that topic, Arm TechCon later this year is ...

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TSMC Tech Symposium | fabless | TSMC | 5nm | 7nm | foundry
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 23rd to 27th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 20 Apr 2018

https://youtu.be/h5Hs6zxcALc Coming from RSA Conference, Moscone West, San Francisco (camera Jessamine McLellan) Monday: TSMC Technology Symposium Preview Tuesday: Linley: Training in the Datacenter, Inference at the Edge Wednesday: R...

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security | rsa conference | rsa | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium | Linley | Tensilica
CDNLive EMEA Preview

By Paul McLellan | 20 Apr 2018

The thing everyone always wants to know about CDNLive EMEA, since it is held in Munich in May, is "Will Bayern München be staying at the hotel?" during the conference, like they did a couple of years ago. The good news is that Munich is still i...

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Munich | CDNLive | CDNLive EMEA | münchen
AMI and IBIS: Who Put the Eye in AMI?

By Paul McLellan | 19 Apr 2018

Have you heard of IBIS and AMI? If you are French, you know that one is a chain of cheap hotels, and the other is the word for a friend. But if you have anything to do with SerDes design, then you know that they are the way you model the SerDes ...

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dfe | AMI | equalization | IBIS | SerDes
CEO Outlook: Cloudy with No Chance of Meatballs

By Paul McLellan | 18 Apr 2018

Recently, the ESD Alliance organized the annual CEO Outlook panel with Simon, Wally, Grant and Dean. I covered the opening statements yesterday , but I figured it would get too long to put everything into a single post, so here's the rest of the eveni...

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security | cloud | ARM | esd alliance | Mentor
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Breaking Down ADAS Sensor Fusion Platforms and Sensor Concepts

By Corrie Callenbach | 17 Apr 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three-part series, Robert Schweiger talks about ADAS sensor fusion platforms and sensors. The pros and cons of sensors sending raw data to a powerful sensor fusion platform versus a hybrid sensor...

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automotive | Whiteboard Wednesdays | sensor fusion | ADAS
Tech Blog Series: Know How Your Circuit Works! — Understand It Better and Build Powerful Designs

By Ronak Shah | 17 Apr 2018

Using Sensitivity Analysis of PSpice I was thinking of writing a series of blogs showcasing what all ammunition's a circuit designer may need to deal with any complex circuits today. So, here's the first one. When in college, books tell you everything...

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RF | OrCAD Capture | PSPICE | PCB design
The ESD Alliance CEO Panel: Forecast Very Cloudy

By Paul McLellan | 17 Apr 2018

Recently, the ESD Alliance organized the annual CEO Outlook panel with Simon, Wally, Grant, and Dean, moderated by Ed. OK, maybe first names aren't quite enough in EDA (is there another Wally in EDA?) but they are: Simon Segars, CEO of Arm (whi...

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Sonics | icmanage | ARM | esd alliance | Mentor
My Second CDNLive: The Top Five Disruptors

By Meera Collier | 16 Apr 2018

Last year, almost to the day, I had been working for Cadence for barely four months, and I used my first CDNLive as a platform to introduce myself in my very first blog post. I now have a year of writing and editing about EDA under my belt, including...

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quantum computing | CDNLive | neuromorphic computing | carbon nanotubes | Cadence on the Beat | silicon photonics | machinelearningdeeplearning | blockchain
The ESD Alliance Becomes Part of SEMI

By Paul McLellan | 16 Apr 2018

Friday of last week I get home, sit down, and feel that the weekend has begun. Almost immediately, I get an email from Nanette Collins, who does press relations for a lot of companies, so I figure it's probably some announcement. It is, indeed, ...

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semicon | semi | EDAC | esd alliance
CDNLive Keynotes: What will Drive the Future?

By Paul McLellan | 13 Apr 2018

The new season of CDNLive kicked off earlier this week with CDNLive Silicon Valley in the Santa Clara Convention Center. The giveaway this year for visiting enough of our partners in the expo was the cute bear on the left. For those of you not from t...

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CDNLive | Lip-Bu Tan | Virtuoso
What's Exciting About Being An Application Engineer? Watch This Video!

By Madhavi Rao | 12 Apr 2018

Many of you may not be familiar with what a Field Application Engineer (most often shortened to FAE or AE) does. AEs at Cadence are critical in making our customers successful by helping them with not just tool adoption, but with methodology developm...

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Field Application Engineer | Cadence India | lovemyjob
Visa, Priceless

By Paul McLellan | 12 Apr 2018

Well, okay. It's actually Mastercard that runs those "priceless" ads, not Visa. But this post is about visas, mostly the H-1B visa, since we don't have too many H-2A temporary agricultural workers in tech. There are lots of other visa types too, such...

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visa | h-1b
Top 10 Reasons Why You Need Allegro System Design Authoring (SDA)

By Rachna2018 | 11 Apr 2018

When it comes to choosing a design-capture tool in the EDA world, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Depending on a variety of factors, most of all personal preferences, the answer to “Which is the best design-capture application?” keeps changing...

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Bypass rails | Allegro System Design Authoring | system design | SDA | DML-Independence | Schematic
Whiteboard Wednesdays - New Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP for Vision and AI Processing

By Corrie Callenbach | 11 Apr 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pulin Desai, discusses the features and benefits of the fifth-generation Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP used for vision and AI processing. www.youtube.com/watch

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DSP | Whiteboard Wednesdays | vision processing | AI
A New Era Needs a New Architecture: The Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP

By Paul McLellan | 11 Apr 2018

There is a trend for increasing sophistication in vision and in artificial intelligence (AI). There are many drivers of this, but two of the most important are the advanced capabilities of high-end smartphones and the demands of ADAS and autonomous d...

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DSP | android neural networks | linley processor conference | caffe | TensorFlow | Tensilica | vision | vision q6