CadenceLIVE Japan Preview. With Coffee and Ice-Cream

Once again this year, CadenceLIVE Japan is coming up soon and it will be completely virtual. As I do each year, let me give you some good reasons to attend. We'd love to give you food and drink but you know why that is not going to happen. We still have giveaways though, even if we have to mail them to you.

First, the date. CadenceLIVE Japan takes place on Friday, July 16.

1. Lip-Bu Tan's Keynote

Lip-Bu Tan, Cadence's CEO, will open the conference with a keynote titled Harnessing the Power of Analytics—Driving the Electronics Industry Renaissance.

The electronics industry renaissance continues to drive change and growth in semiconductor design. With the increasing influence of hyperscalers comes a restructuring of the ecosystem as they drive priorities for process nodes, packaging, PCBs, and complete systems. Productivity designing software for intelligent systems is an increasingly important bottleneck. Data analytics are at vanguard of this wave of change, and Cadence is a key enabler of the technologies fueling the innovation.

By the way, you have to watch Lip-Bu's keynote live, like all the keynotes. It will not be available for replay afterward.

2. Anirudh Devgan's Keynote

Anirudh Devgan, Cadence's president, will give his keynote immediately after Lip-Bu, titled Electronics Systems Design—Cadence Technology and Innovation Update.

Successful design of high-performance electronic systems demands a level of system engineering previously seen only for rocket science and theoretical physics. Engineers are striving for optimal capabilities while squeezing margins for cost, size, power, and other factors. Incorporating intelligence requires another level of control theory beyond. To achieve desired results requires a new approach of Intelligent System Design encompassing semiconductor, electrical, mechanical, and thermal effects. Hear about the latest innovations from Cadence that achieve results and enable higher quality design with the industry’s best designer productivity.

3. Invited Keynote: Waseda University

Following Anirudh's keynote is the first invited keynote, Technical Challenges for 6G by Dr. Tetsuya Kawanishi, professor of Waseda University.

Mr. Kawanishi is Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Electronic Physical Systems Professor Doctor (Engineering)

5G services have just started but the move beyond 5G to 6G is already in full swing. In 5G, mmWave is new, with much wider available bandwidth, but challenges with range.

6G will go further to terahertz waves (actually 100+ GHz). It should be possible to achieve transmission speeds of 100Gbps. But there are challenges especially with transmission range and attenuation.

In his keynote, Mr Kawanishi will introduce the base technologies required for terahertz communication. Research is already underway, and related technologies are already in use in applications such as airports and radio astronomy. He will predict future technologies while using them as examples of how high-end technologies today will lead to familiar technologies in the future.

4. Invited Keynote: Honda

In the middle of the afternoon is the second invited keynote, CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) for Automotive Development by Tetsuhiro Kawamura of Honda.

Mr. Kawamura is Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Automobile Business Headquarters Manufacturing Center Completed Vehicle Development Section 3 Vehicle Development Department, Power Performance Aerodynamic Development Division Assistant Chief Engineer

The department Mr Kawamura belongs to is in charge of aerodynamic development, cooling, and heat resistance in automobile development. It is also required to guarantee increasing fuel efficiency by reducing air resistance.

Up to now, his department has mainly conducted physical tests but has also been studying simulation-based methods so that work can be done earlier. However, when doing a simulation to predict performance from flow, it is necessary to represent the entire vehicle, so it is truly a large-scale model.

By using Cadence OMNIS Autoseal and Hexpress to solve this problem, it has proven possible to significantly reduce the time by automation of mesh creation. The number of cells can be reduced without damaging the accuracy of the analysie. Simulation can now be done in a practical amount of time.

5. Conference Tracks

6. Designer Expo

Come see:

• Arm
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES
• Samsung
• TSMC
• Cliosoft
• UMC
• Altair
• AWS
• Google Cloud
• Green Hills Software
• HDL Design House
• Microsoft Azure
• Sarcina Technology
• Sigasi
• ChipEstimate
• Computer Dynamics
• Innotech
• Magwel
• MathWorks
• MoDeCH
• 3DGS
• NAGASE
• NVIDIA
• Ultimate Technologies Incorporated

and, of course, Cadence.

7. Prizes!

There are prizes. You can get points for all sorts of things, such as filling out your survey at the end of a session you attended, or visiting partners in the Designer Expo, or downloading content. At the end of the show, depending on how many points you have, you can get gift cards for Starbucks coffee or Häagen-Dazs ice cream. Or both—affogato is vanilla ice cream with an espresso poured over it, and you can win all the ingredients.

8. Registration

For more details including registration, see the event page for CadenceLIVE Japan.

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