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Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Truth about Designing for Automotive Functional Safety

By Corrie Callenbach | 22 May 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Tom Hackett challenges conventional wisdom and concludes that achieving functional safety means going beyond the letter of the law of ISO 26262 to embrace the spirit of a functional safety culture. www.youtube.com/watch

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automotive | Whiteboard Wednesdays | functional safety | automotive IP | ISO 26262 | ADAS
Whiteboard Wednesdays - An Introduction to Compute In-Memory

By Corrie Callenbach | 16 May 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Marc Greenberg introduces the concept of “Compute In-Memory” - a hot topic which promises to greatly improve the performance of memory transactions while reducing energy. However, there are alternate approaches that can accomplish the same goals with today’s technology. This video explores the approach and alternatives. https://youtu.be/61J2R42yAzQ

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | Memory | processor | DDR | Compute In-Memory
Whiteboard Wednesday - Introducing the DFI 5.0 Interface Standard

By Corrie Callenbach | 8 May 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, John MacLaren, chairman of the DDR PHY Interface Group, describes the new DFI 5.0 specification and the enhancements it provides to the Controller/PHY Interface of DDR memory channels. https://youtu.be/5rfxkt-5T4o

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DDR Controller | Whiteboard Wednesdays | DDR PHY
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Tensilica DSPs, Sensors, and Neural Networks

By Corrie Callenbach | 1 May 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the last in a three-part series, Robert Schweiger closes the loop on the advantages of hybrid sensor fusion platforms in combination with smart sensors. Tensilica DSPs are ideal for low-power, real-time processing of automotive sensors in particular if neural networks are deployed for high-resolution object detection in camera, radar and lidar sensors. https://youtu.be/7cF...

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automotive | Whiteboard Wednesdays | sensor fusion | lidar | radar | camera | ADAS
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Automotive Sensors: Concepts and Trends

By Corrie Callenbach | 24 Apr 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a three-part series, Robert Schweiger does a deep dive on the technical aspects of the different sensors on a car: camera, radar, and lidar. For all three sensors the trend is the same: Increased resolution, higher performance per watt, scalability, smaller form factor at of course a lower price. Especially the new generation of high-resolution imaging radars...

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automotive | Whiteboard Wednesdays | lidar | radar | camera
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Breaking Down ADAS Sensor Fusion Platforms and Sensor Concepts

By Corrie Callenbach | 17 Apr 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three-part series, Robert Schweiger talks about ADAS sensor fusion platforms and sensors. The pros and cons of sensors sending raw data to a powerful sensor fusion platform versus a hybrid sensor fusion system where sensors pre-process the data before sending to the sensor fusion platform. It’s all about compute performance, sensor data rates, power consumption...

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automotive | Whiteboard Wednesdays | sensor fusion | ADAS
Whiteboard Wednesdays - New Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP for Vision and AI Processing

By Corrie Callenbach | 11 Apr 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pulin Desai, discusses the features and benefits of the fifth-generation Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP used for vision and AI processing. www.youtube.com/watch

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DSP | Whiteboard Wednesdays | vision processing | AI
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Interfaces—If You’re Not First, You’re Last

By Corrie Callenbach | 3 Apr 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett recounts two personal experiences which illustrate the surprising impact of SoC interfaces on customer selection criteria for electronic products and the importance for product developers to be first-to-market with new interfaces. www.youtube.com/watch

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | IP | LPDDR | NVMe | USB | SoC Interface | Type-C
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Doing More With Less—Software GPS and Tensilica Processors for the IoT

By Corrie Callenbach | 27 Mar 2018

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett describes a theoretical IoT device for monitoring shipping containers and the ways that the system cost could be reduced by implementing functions such as GPS in software and running them on a Tensilica processor. https://youtu.be/SO7HigVTQ-Y

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | sensor | IoT | Tensilica
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to the NVDIMM Standard

By Corrie Callenbach | 20 Mar 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Marc Greenberg discusses the benefits of moving non-volatile memory from the SSD to the DDR bus and possible new storage-class memories. www.youtube.com/watch

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | NVM | DDR | NVDIMM
Whiteboard Wednesdays - The 3 Methods of Memory Controller Port Arbitration

By Corrie Callenbach | 13 Mar 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jing Liu describes three methods of port arbitration in memory controller designs: round-robin, priority round-robin, and weighted round-robin. https://youtu.be/CR6dQcoz868

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DDR Controller | Port Arbitration | Whiteboard Wednesdays
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Error Correction Code Implementations in Memory Controller Designs

By Corrie Callenbach | 6 Mar 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jing Liu provides a simple explanation of the in-line and out-of-band methods of Error Correction Code (ECC) implementation in memory subsystem designs. https://youtu.be/ejYImUgMXTI

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DDR Controller | Whiteboard Wednesdays | ECC
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Unpacking the DFI Low-Power Interface

By Corrie Callenbach | 27 Feb 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, John MacLaren describes the operation of the DFI Low Power Interface to reduce PHY power consumption. www.youtube.com/watch

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Low Power | Whiteboard Wednesdays | DFI | DDR PHY
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Using DDR PHY Power Features to Reduce Power Dissipation

By Corrie Callenbach | 20 Feb 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Marc Greenberg explains the ways to optimize power dissipation by controlling DDR PHY performance settings. https://youtu.be/cNzggIZIhig

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | DDR PHY | Low Power DDR
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Can You Really Reduce DDR Power Dissipation by Reducing the Frequency?

By Corrie Callenbach | 13 Feb 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Marc Greenberg examines the non-linear relationship between frequency and power consumption and the power implications of fast burst transmission vs. slow continuous transmission of data. https://youtu.be/352-djuLWA8

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DDR Power | Whiteboard Wednesdays | Reduced Power DDR | Low Power DDR
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Dual Channel DIMMs for Server Applications

By Corrie Callenbach | 6 Feb 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Kishore Kasamsetty, discusses how future server memory standards are expected to implement dual channel DIMM. Learn about how dual channel DIMMs work and what the implications are for PHY and controller IP that need to support both single and dual channel DIMM. https://youtu.be/vilUDNv8vcI

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | Dual Channel DIMM | DIMM
Whiteboard Wednesdays - LPDDR4X DRAM: Performance and Power Efficiency Improvements Over LPDDR4

By Corrie Callenbach | 30 Jan 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Kishore Kasamsetty will help you learn more about how LPDDR4X can cut down a significant amount of DRAM and SoC PHY power with the use of a 0.6V VDDQ signaling level. LPDDR4X is also available in the highest performance timing bins- 4266 Mbps. Silicon proven LPDDR4X IP in many popular nodes is available from cadence making it ideal for applications requiring high bandwidth...

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | LPDDR4
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Verification Challenges for SoCs Integrating CCIX Interface IP

By Corrie Callenbach | 25 Jan 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays episode, Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence, describes the verification challenges for SoCs when integrating CCIX (Cache Coherent Chip-to-Chip Protocol) IP. https://youtu.be/XJo0FieHEYc

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | ccix
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Verification Challenges for SoCs Integrating PCI Express Subsystem IP

By Corrie Callenbach | 16 Jan 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence, describes the verification challenges for SoCs when integrating PCI Express subsystem IP. www.youtube.com/watch

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | SoC | PCI Express | verification
Whiteboard Wednesdays - What to expect from TLM 2.0 Models for Memory Subsystems - Part 2

By Corrie Callenbach | 9 Jan 2018

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Vivek Nandakumar continues his explanation of the behavioral differences between Loosely Timed (LT) and Approximately Timed (AT) TLM 2.0 models. www.youtube.com/watch

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | Memory | TLM 2.0
Whiteboard Wednesdays - What to expect from TLM 2.0 Models for Memory Subsystems - Part 1

By Corrie Callenbach | 12 Dec 2017

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Vivek Nandakumar explains the behavioral differences between Loosely Timed (LT) and Approximately Timed (AT) TLM 2.0 models. https://youtu.be/TRdukWFeQSM

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | Memory | TLM 2.0
Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Simplest Neural Network Explanation Ever - Part 2

By Corrie Callenbach | 5 Dec 2017

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Tom Hackett continues his explanation of neural network basics using an Excel spreadsheet as a learning vehicle. You can download the spreadsheet here: https://ip.cadence.com/uploads/1213/neural-network-calculator-xlxs-zip https://youtu.be/ow1ZuOPD72I

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | neural networks
Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Simplest Neural Network Explanation Ever - Part 1

By Corrie Callenbach | 28 Nov 2017

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Tom Hackett explains neural network basics using an Excel spreadsheet as a learning vehicle. You can download the spreadsheet here: https://ip.cadence.com/uploads/1213/neural-network-calculator-xlxs-zip www.youtube.com/watch

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Whiteboard Wednesdays | neural networks
Whiteboard Wednesdays - Simplifying Fault Injection Simulations for Functional Safety Verification

By Corrie Callenbach | 14 Nov 2017

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, YJ Patil answers the "What", "Why", and "How" of fault injection simulations for automotive designs. https://youtu.be/oSI-Omtggl8

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automotive | Whiteboard Wednesdays | functional safety
Whiteboard Wednesdays - A Practical Approach to Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA)

By Corrie Callenbach | 7 Nov 2017

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, John MacLaren explains the steps required for Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) in automotive designs and the specific practices incorporated for Cadence DDR IP. https://youtu.be/ef-IuDKXf0E

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automotive | Whiteboard Wednesdays | DDR4 | DDR | DDR3