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Staying Alert in a World of Distraction

By MeeraC | 17 Apr 2019

As I drove my commute this morning, I was almost in an accident. I had slowed down for some backed-up traffic ahead, and I looked in my rearview window—and saw another car barreling down on mine, seemingly with no intent to stop. At the last mi...

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vision processing | vision signal processing | Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP | Cadence on the Beat | DNA100 Processor | Distracted Drivers
Insights from the Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship Winners

By MeeraC | 24 Jan 2019

One of the things that I love about working at Cadence is that Cadence really takes the gender disparity in technology seriously. Cadence supports our women employees with our Women@Cadence group and supports future technology innovators by partnerin...

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Cadence Women in Tech Scholarship | STEM | Cadence on the Beat | women
A Cadence Carol, Reprise

By MeeraC | 10 Dec 2018

Last weekend, I took my son to the Dickens Fair for the second year in a row. As we did last year, we had a marvelous time, and I was reminded of the holiday special I wrote last year, as well. So, in lieu of a new post this week, may I direct you to...

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A Cadence Carol | Cadence on the Beat | Creative Writing
Size (of the Kilogram) Matters

By MeeraC | 13 Nov 2018

How do you know how many coffee beans you have purchased (besides counting them out, that is)? Coffee is generally measured by weight (not by volume). In the U.S., this may be in pounds, but for the rest of the world, it’s in kilograms. So how ...

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When Reliability Brings You Lemons

By MeeraC | 8 Nov 2018

How long do you expect your electronics to last? Depends on the device, I expect. A mobile phone may last a few years; a laptop may last five years or so, a television may last maybe ten years or more. What about an automobile? Maybe fifteen years? (...

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legato | Legato Reliability Solution | Cadence on the Beat | reliability analysis
Moral Machines

By MeeraC | 31 Oct 2018

Have you ever heard of the Trolley Problem ? According to Wikipedia, the Trolley Problem is this: You see a runaway trolley moving toward five tied-up (or otherwise incapacitated) people lying on the tracks. You are standing next to a lever that cont...

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future of transportation | automotive | transportation | Cadence on the Beat | autonomous cars | ethics | self-driving cars | AI
Is Resistance Futile?

By MeeraC | 24 Oct 2018

At Cadence, we have recently switched over our printer system. Before, everyone in an office was hooked up to a communal printer that when you print something, you have to run to the printer down the hall to pick it up. God forbid it is something sen...

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futurism | star trek | Cadence on the Beat | ethics
Some Headlines that Caught My Eye

By MeeraC | 18 Oct 2018

Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now…—Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton Every once in a while, I write a post like this one, to highlight some of the amazing things that are happening in the world of electroni...

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news | Headlines | Cadence on the Beat
Truck Platooning? 10-4, Good Buddy

By MeeraC | 11 Oct 2018

You know how, when geese are flying in a group, they form a V-shape? This is because of the slipstream in the air. Geese take turns being in the leadership position, and the other geese benefit from the reduced energy output required to make their mi...

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automotive | autonomous driving | platooning
I'm a Doctor, Not an Engineer!

By MeeraC | 1 Oct 2018

…to which Montgomery Scott immediately replied, “Now, you’re an engineer.”—Star Trek Original series, season 2, episode 4: Mirror, Mirror, October 6, 1967 The original Star Trek was trailblazing in so many ways. This ...

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AMS | star trek | Virtuoso
Little Boxes on the Hillside

By MeeraC | 26 Sep 2018

There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one…—Malvina Reynolds In the cubicle environment, one often overhears conversation. I usually tune out conversation that is irrelevant to me, but sometimes random wo...

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Cadence on the Beat | creativity
Seeing Sound

By MeeraC | 19 Sep 2018

You may know something about deep learning and machine learning when it comes to visual applications. Using various filters (or convolutions) and other methods of interpreting visual data, the layers of processing that data can, for example, identify...

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audio | Cadence on the Beat | HiFi | Tensilica
Automation Is the End of the World (Or Not)

By MeeraC | 11 Sep 2018

“Oh no! Automation is going to cause massive job losses, causing the downfall of society itself!” shriek the pundits who look at employment figures. Now, this may be true. There’s no question that robots and automation have already ...

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innovation | automation | Cadence on the Beat | future | history
The Price of Getting Rid of Traffic

By MeeraC | 22 Aug 2018

I spend a lot of time commuting, as I generally drive around 80 miles a day to get to and from work. With that time in my car, I also spend a lot of time sitting in traffic. Now, I get a lot of reading done on these trips—thanks, recorded books...

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future of transportation | transportation | Cadence on the Beat | autonomous cars | self-driving cars | autonomous vehicles
Chaos, Fractals, and The Theory of Unintended Consequences

By MeeraC | 14 Aug 2018

“Prediction is difficult, especially the future.” — Niels Bohr Okay, in my post last week, I revealed that I was a deterministic Newtonian, and my reasoning was about two hundred years old. I posited, “If I could identify al...

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quantum computing | quantum | chaos theory | Fractals | Cadence on the Beat
Beyond Quantum Computing 101: A Modern Oracle

By MeeraC | 8 Aug 2018

The fires in Northern California and floods in the east coast and the heat waves affecting most of the northern hemisphere this summer have me thinking about climate change and climate modeling. After writing last week’s post about quantum comp...

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quantum computing | Cadence on the Beat | Modeling
Quantum Computing 101

By MeeraC | 31 Jul 2018

Recently I ran into Lip-Bu Tan, our CEO, after one of his round-table talks, and asked him what he’s been reading lately. He said (and I paraphrase because I didn’t have my notebook with me to write it down verbatim), “I have been r...

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quantum computing | quantum | qubit | Cadence on the Beat | simulation
I've Looked at Clouds from Both Sides Now

By MeeraC | 24 Jul 2018

—Joni Mitchell Unless you really haven’t been paying attention, everyone is talking about the cloud, and the EDA world is no exception. At DAC last month, the two main themes were machine learning and EDA in the cloud. (Paul’s recen...

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Cadence on the Beat | cadence cloud | cloud computing
The Fifth Generation Is Coming

By MeeraC | 16 Jul 2018

As I mentioned last week in my blog about narrowband IoT , 4G is the standard that is used across the radio interface of most of the connected phones in the world. 4G is the fourth generation of this standard (and LTE is kind of like Rev2 of 4G),...

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5G | IoT | Cadence on the Beat | Tensilica | mobile
Why You Should Care About Narrowband IoT: It’s Not Just a Fashion Trend

By MeeraC | 10 Jul 2018

I read Paula Jones’ recent blog post about NB-IoT applications, and it led me down the rabbit hole: what is narrowband IoT, and why are companies using the Cadence Fusion DSP IP in applications that use it? IoT is the internet of things, which ...

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Cadence on the Beat | Fusion | Tensilica | nb-iot
How Do You Pick Your IP?

By MeeraC | 19 Jun 2018

Last week I talked about what IP is, and why it’s important. ( Click here for a quick review!) This week, after being inspired by a Whiteboard Wednesday given by Tom Hackett, I thought I’d talk about what really matters when selecting IP f...

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IP | Cadence on the Beat
30 Years of Innovation - And There’s Still So Much to Do!

By PaulaJones | 13 Jun 2018

Last week I captured the highlights of the progress we’ve made in the past 30 years in the blog post, 30 Years of Innovation – We’ve come so far. And while I’ve witnessed a lot of these changes over the years, I feel lik...

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30 years | SDE | Tensilica | system design enablement | verification
Cadence Puts the IP in ...well, IP

By MeeraC | 12 Jun 2018

A lot has been written about AI and machinelearningdeeplearning, but a friend asked me, what does that have to do with Cadence, anyway? And what do you mean when you say, IP? I realized that I haven’t explained it yet. So here goes! Tensilica F...

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IP | complexity | VIP | Cadence on the Beat | autonomous cars | interface IP | Tensilica | AI
30 Years of Innovation – We’ve Come So Far

By PaulaJones | 4 Jun 2018

This year, Cadence celebrates its 30th anniversary. When Cadence was founded in 1988, I was working at VLSI Technology with fellow blogger Paul McLellan, of Breakfast Bytes fame. VLSI Technology had its own set of computer-aided design (CAD) tools fo...

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EDA history | Dracula | ecad systems | SDA
Standards, Roombas, and Privacy in the Grocery Store

By MeeraC | 25 May 2018

As I mentioned in my last post , I attended one day of the Embedded Vision Summit this week, and as I did last year , I had a great time learning about vision applications in the AI landscape. Last year, I attended more of the “Fundamentals&rdquo...

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Embedded Vision Summit | Cadence on the Beat | machinelearningdeeplearning

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