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When I worked for Cadence back in the early oughts, we developed a layout database called OpenAccess, usually abbreviated to OA. It had actually been designed from the ground up to be the native database that would underlay Cadence's physica...

You may have seen the news that if you read an interesting article in the Australian press, you cannot share it with your friends on Facebook. Say what? Cable TV Let's start with a bit of history. There is probably some similar story to this base...

Late in January, Cadence and Arm ran a joint webinar on implementing advanced microprocessors in advanced processes using the digital full flow for implementation and signoff. The opening presentation was by Arm's Dermot O'Driscoll. Then Yufeng Luo p...

It's a weird confluence of days this weekend. It is the Chinese New Year on the 12th, today. It is Valentine's Day on the 14th. And it is Presidents' Day on the 15th. Cadence is off for that last one (in the US), and, as is traditional the day before...

One of the keynotes at the recent DATE 2021 was local. Or would have been local if DATE had taken place in Grenoble as originally planned. Of course, DATE was virtual and you could watch from anywhere in the world. About the only thing truly European...

As late as 2010, the received wisdom among computer scientists was that neural networks would not amount to much. Those ideas had been tried repeatedly for decades and never produced practical results. Yes, our brains work that way, but it seemed tha...

Yesterday's post DATE: What Is Single Pilot Operation? Airbus Explains was the first of two about the Airbus keynote at DATE. After a pre-recorded presentation there was a live Q&A. The questions covered a lot of ground and I thought it ...

The final keynote at this year's DATE was by Pascal Traverse of Airbus, titled Autonomy: One Step Beyond on Commercial Aviation. This was part of this year's DATE's two-day special initiative on Autonomous System Design (ASD)...not t...

https://youtu.be/WUEvcW8Isxc Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: It's Mars Month Tuesday: SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium: The Outlook Wednesday: SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium: The Technology Thursday: A History of Semicon...

I was idly watching YouTube over the break when "the algorithm" recommended that I watch a Computerphile video called How the Mouse Works. In some ways, it is a history of the computer mouse. But the history of the mouse goes back a lot fur...

I like to claim that I was in the IP Business before the name IP was used for semiconductor components. When VLSI Technology spun out Compass Design Automation as a separate company, in addition to all the EDA software, Compass also inherited what we...

At the recent SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium, the second day had a section devoted to technology. I covered some of the first day in my earlier post SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium: The Outlook . In the technology section, there were three presenta...

In mid-January, SEMI organizes the two-day Industry Strategy Symposium. Normally, this is held in the Hyatt Regency in Half Moon Bay. Due to space constraints, they let very few press into the event. When I worked for Semiwiki, SEMI would give u...

Last July, in the midst of the global pandemic, three spacecraft were launched to escape our globe. They were bound for Mars. There is a reason they were all launched around the same time. Mars goes around the Sun roughly half as fast as the Earth do...

It's only a couple of weeks since I've done one of my update posts, a collection of items that update previous posts on Breakfast Bytes but are not significant enough to justify a whole post on their own. Uually I only do these every few mont...

It's another year, so another season of CadenceLIVE events across the world. The dates are all below. Take careful note since several of the events are at a different time of year from their historical place on the calendar. As always, the focus ...

DVCon 2021 is coming up March 1 - 4. It is virtual, of course. I said last year that Aparna told me it would be her last year as General Chair and that this year she would be "past chair". But she spoke too soon. Accellera asked Aparna to step i...

At CadenceLIVE, Kioxia's Ravi Tangirala presented System-Level Emulation and Prototyping Performance for Storage Controllers. He is the director of validation engineering for Kioxia America (the former Toshiba Memory, before it was spun...

There is a whole portfolio of official "best of CES" awards, 14 of them this year. Of course, every publication lists its own best-of list, but the official CES awards are judged by endgadget. Previous posts about CES 2021 are: Consum...

https://youtu.be/WeiohMmcwzc Made at "some waterfalls" Monday: MLK Day Tuesday: Consumer Electronics Show 2021: GM, Intel Wednesday: Cadence to Acquire Computational Fluid Dynamics Company NUMECA Thursday: Modus DFT Has Been ISO 2...

This is my second post about this year's CES. The first was Consumer Electronics Show 2021: GM, Intel . AMD The second day of CES opened with Lisa Su, AMD's CEO, presenting. AMD announced new products, but as far as I can tell they are all bui...

At the end of last year, Cadence's Modus DFT Software Solution was ISO 26262 certified by TÜV-SÜD. So what does that even mean? The Modus DFT solution has two main functions. First, it takes a design, adds scan chains and compressor/decompr...

This morning, Cadence announced that it was acquiring NUMECA International to expand its system analysis capabilities with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). NUMECA is a leader in CFD, mesh generation, multi-physics simulation, and optimization. Cad...

Normally, at this time of year I would be in Las Vegas, as I have been in January for the last several years to attend CES. As somebody on an Endgadget video said, "this year we get to experience CES the way most consumers do". Despite the name, the ...

https://youtu.be/mKoW8ji9_g8 Made in my kitchen (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: Young People Program at DATE 2021 Tuesday: IEDM Opening Keynote Wednesday: Cadence/Arm Event on Optimizing High-End Arm Processors in Advanced Nodes Thursday: Update: Achron...