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    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
  • MeeraC
    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
  • MeeraC
    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
  • MeeraC
    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
  • PaulaJones
    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
  • MeeraC
    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
  • PaulaJones
    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
  • MeeraC
    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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    A Vision of the Future of Embedded Vision
    By MeeraC | 23 May 2018
    (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...
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    Embedded Vision Summit | Cadence on the Beat | machinelearningdeeplearning
  • MeeraC
    How Do You Change What Happened in the Past?
    By MeeraC | 14 May 2018
    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...
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    quantum computing | lithography | physics | Cadence on the Beat
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    Why Silicon Photonics Are a Wave of the Future (or Are They a Particle?)
    By MeeraC | 9 May 2018
    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...
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  • MeeraC
    DDR-PHY-DFI-OMG-BBQ
    By MeeraC | 2 May 2018
    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—...
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    Memory | PHY | Cadence on the Beat | DFI | DDR
  • MeeraC
    Why the Future of Electrical Engineering is in Peril
    By MeeraC | 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
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    My Second CDNLive: The Top Five Disruptors
    By MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    Digital Twinning, Explained: You Won't Believe the Metaphor This Time
    By MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    Top Three Headlines that Caught My Eye: AI and Big Data, More or Less
    By MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    Meeting the Challenges of the 2018 National Defense Strategy
    By MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    Weapons of Math Destruction
    By MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    Autonomous Cars, Vision, and Protocols
    By MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    Science Fiction and Technology Reality
    By MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    VerveCon 2018: Failure and Success
    By MeeraC | 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 MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    What’s the Deal with ISO 26262?
    By MeeraC | 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
  • MeeraC
    The Design Economy and a Jobless Future
    By MeeraC | 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 MeeraC | 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
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