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Barcelona MWC: Cadence, Vision, Audio, USB Type-C

Cadence has been at Mobile World Congress all week. Actually they are still there…

• 4 min read
lumia , USB Type-C , mwc16 , Mobile World Congress , HiFi , convolutional neural network , MWC , Tensilica , CNN

Barcelona MWC: ARM, Virtual Reality, Formula 1

Sometimes a little slip of the tongue gives away a deeper truth. One of those happened…

• 6 min read
Simon Segars , barcelona , gsma , Mobile World Congress , vr , lewis hamilton , MWC , formula one , Qualcomm , formula 1 , ARM , Breakfast Bytes , sk telecom

Barcelona MWC: Zuckerberg Interview

The last event of the day at Mobile World Congress was an interview with Mark Zuckerberg…

• 5 min read
Oculus , mwc16 , barcelona , Facebook , MWC , virtual reality , drones , zuckerberg

Barcelona MWC: 5G and Disruption

I am in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. They won't give me a press pass since…

• 6 min read
5G , mwc16 , barcelona , at&t , Mobile World Congress , Ericsson , MWC , ARM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

Linley Data Center Conference: FPGAs and ARMs in the Cloud

Next week, February 9-10, is the Linley Data Center Conference in the Santa Clara…

• 4 min read
Altera , linley group , Linley , cloud , xilinx , ARM , datacenter , Breakfast Bytes , FPGA , cloud computing

Modus Test Solution—Tests Great, Less Filling

Today Cadence announced the latest product in the "us" series of next-generation…

• 4 min read
modus test , low pincount test , modus , Test , codec , 2D elastic compression , test compression , Breakfast Bytes
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