Cadence on the Beat Blogs

—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...

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),...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(From the Department of Redundancy Department) If it’s the third week of May, it must be the week of the Embedded Vision Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center, hosted by the Embedded Vision Alliance. I was only able to attend the first da...

In researching and thinking about silicon photonics last week, I found myself going down the rabbit hole of quantum physics. Like ya do. Since I didn’t take any physics classes in college, most of what I know about quantum physics is self-taugh...

The movement of information using light is nothing new. Fiber optic communications networks are commonplace in data and telecommunications systems. Advances in IC technology and fabrication are now moving optic—or more accurately, photonic&mdas...

Today Cadence's clipping service found a quote by Cadence in a press release by DFI Group, and when I first read about it, it was as if my brain stopped understanding what was clearly English. Sometimes working at this company is like that—...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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 ...