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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
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
Digital Twinning, Explained: You Won't Believe the Metaphor This Time

By Meera Collier | 27 Mar 2018

It makes sense, right? When developing an expensive hardware/software system—think cell phone, server, car, or fighter jet—you might want to make a virtual model alongside it to make sure that it works the way you want it to, but also to ...

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Digital Twinning | Protium | Palladium | Cadence on the Beat | Emulation | xcelium | simulation
Top Three Headlines that Caught My Eye: AI and Big Data, More or Less

By Meera Collier | 19 Mar 2018

Occasionally I come across a mishmash of headlines that warrant mention, and these were all reported within the last week! Uber’s Autonomous Fail And so it begins. A self-driving Uber car has struck a pedestrian last night, causing the first pe...

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future of transportation | Cadence on the Beat | big data | autonomous cars | self-driving cars | machinelearningdeeplearning | autonomous vehicles
Meeting the Challenges of the 2018 National Defense Strategy

By Meera Collier | 13 Mar 2018

If you know anything about me, you’ll know that one of the most important things to me about the future of technology is making sure that this new technology is accessible to everyone. It is critical in this new age to take new technology and a...

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PVT | Military | Cadence on the Beat | system design enablement | MilAero
Weapons of Math Destruction

By Meera Collier | 8 Mar 2018

Two things have hit me profoundly this week, and I wanted to share them with you. Ending Bias in Artificial Intelligence The first is an article that I wish I could just copy in its entirety and paste here, and I thank Paula Jones for sending it to m...

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context is everything | vision processing | vision signal processing | Cadence on the Beat | ethics | machinelearningdeeplearning | Tensilica | neural networks
Autonomous Cars, Vision, and Protocols

By Meera Collier | 26 Feb 2018

Remember how, last May, I wrote about the five levels of autonomy of the autonomous car? I’ve been thinking about cars a lot because I just got a new-to-me car, a 2015 model (I won’t tell you what it is since I don’t want to be seen...

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future of transportation | transportation | Embedded Vision Summit | Vivek Wadhwa | Edge | Cadence on the Beat | autonomous cars | self-driving cars | Tensilica | Tensilica C5 | autonomous vehicles
Science Fiction and Technology Reality

By Meera Collier | 21 Feb 2018

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. —Sue Monk Kidd, author I just had an awesome weekend with my sister visiting San Francisco from the east coast. She was attending a confe...

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context is everything | applying binary to a non-binary world | SDE | Cadence on the Beat | literature | system design enablement | saving the world
VerveCon 2018: Failure and Success

By Meera Collier | 15 Feb 2018

Last Friday, I attended the inaugural conference of VerveCon , a conference devoted to women in technology. With their vision of “empower[ing] women in technology and build community that helps them in their career path and prepare them to be an...

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The Phil Kaufman Award Dinner, 2017

By Meera Collier | 13 Feb 2018

One of the best ways to save the planet is to educate people. —Dr. Rob Rutenbar, winner of the Phil Kaufman Award, 2017 The first two years of my career was spent in a room with Rob on a whiteboard, and it was the most fun I have ever had. &md...

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context is everything | education | Cadence on the Beat | Phil Kaufman Award Dinner | moore's law | saving the world
What’s the Deal with ISO 26262?

By Meera Collier | 5 Feb 2018

Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn’t resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and...

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future of transportation | functional safety | DesignCon | Cadence on the Beat | autonomous cars | self-driving cars | ISO 26262 | autonomous vehicles
The Design Economy and a Jobless Future

By Meera Collier | 1 Feb 2018

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Dennis Gabor, Nobel Prize winner in physics for work in holography Adding to this futurist theme that I began with my last post , I started thinking about how our econom...

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Work and the Fallacy of Predicting the Future

By Meera Collier | 30 Jan 2018

You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind.—Irish Proverb I’ve been thinking about the future of work. With a quick search on “jobless future”, I found a fascinating blog/essay on some predictions for ...

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work | futurism | system complexity | Cadence on the Beat | ethics
The Top Four Tech Articles that Caught My Eye This Month

By Meera Collier | 25 Jan 2018

Now that I have your attention, here are a few non-CES-related articles that caught my eye recently—all interesting enough in their own right, so I thought I’d squish them all into one post. STEM or STEAM? In a recent article on the websi...

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STEM | applying binary to a non-binary world | Vivek Wadhwa | Cadence on the Beat | ethics | machinelearningdeeplearning | AI
#CES2018 Cowboy Style, Pt. II

By Meera Collier | 19 Jan 2018

Today I explored the North Hall, the automotive and 3D printing areas, not even stopping at the Cadence booth. Oooh, my aching feet! The displays were about more than just what new cars will look like in the future; there were a ton of exhibits on sound systems, components, sensors, and sensing systems. The difference between today and yesterday is the whizz-bang factor. Today, it was huge.

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future of transportation | context is everything | transportation | CES | CES2018 | Cadence on the Beat | autonomous cars | self-driving cars
#CES2018 Cowboy Style, Pt. I

By Meera Collier | 17 Jan 2018

Travelog time! I turned my trip to the Computer Electronics Show (CES) into a roadtrip with my spouse, and it was a whirlwind. Tuesday, January 9 We left home in Santa Cruz around noon and arrived here in Sandy Valley, NV, at about 9:30pm, where...

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future of transportation | context is everything | CES | CES2018 | AR/VR | Cadence on the Beat | autonomous cars
Androids and Electric Sheep

By Meera Collier | 4 Jan 2018

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. —Edgar Allan Poe I have a problem. As I try to go to sleep at night, I allow my mind to wander, and I think...

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CES | applying binary to a non-binary world | deep thought | Cadence on the Beat | machinelearningdeeplearning | Tensilica | neural networks | AI
A Cadence Carol: Stave V, The End of It

By Meera Collier | 23 Dec 2017

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol. Be sure to read the previous installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits, Part I and Part II Stave II...

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A Cadence Carol | Cadence on the Beat | Creative Writing
A Cadence Carol, Stave IV: The Last of the Spirits, Part II

By Meera Collier | 21 Dec 2017

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol. Be sure to read the previous installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits, Part I and Part II Stave II...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave IV, Part I: The Last of the Three Spirits

By Meera Collier | 18 Dec 2017

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol. Be sure to read the previous installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits, Part I and Part II Stave III: The Second of the Three Spirits, Par...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave III, Part II

By Meera Collier | 14 Dec 2017

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol. Be sure to read the previous installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits, Part I and Part II Stave III: The Second of the Thre...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave III: The Second of Three Spirits, Part I

By Meera Collier | 11 Dec 2017

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol... before reading this post, be sure to have read the first four installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits, Part I &...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave II, Part II

By Meera Collier | 7 Dec 2017

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol... before reading this post, be sure to have read the first three installments! Stave I: Moore’s Ghost, Part I and Part II Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits, Part I * *...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave II, Part I: The First of the Three Spirits

By Meera Collier | 4 Dec 2017

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol... before reading this post, be sure to have read Stave I: Moore's Law's Ghost, Part I and Part II ! * * * * * * * When Ben Easer awoke, it was so dark that he could scarcely distinguish the window from t...

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A Cadence Carol, Stave I, Part II

By Meera Collier | 30 Nov 2017

This is a continuation of A Cadence Carol... before reading this post, be sure to have read Part I . * * * * * * * Now it is a fact that there was nothing at all particular about the security camera trained on Ben Easer’s front door, except that...

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