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Last week was the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), held in Orlando Florida (it moves around each year). It was created by Telle Whitney and Anita Borg back in 1994. Anita died in 2003 from a brain tumor and Telle runs that conference...

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a TV show called "Get Smart." It was a sort of cross between a James Bond movie, and a Mel Brooks movie, not least because it was created by Mel Brooks. Given that, you won't be surprised to know that the show...

At the recent Decoding Formal Club meeting, organized by Oski and sponsored by Cadence, there was a presentation on computational origami. That sounds like a great marketing name for formal verification, but in fact it was indeed what it sounds like...

At the Cadence VIP dinner at Korea CDNLive last month, Paul Cunningham spoke about the state of the EDA industry, especially in the digital and signoff world.

It all comes down to the productivity gap between the design diversity and complexity rising faster than the design schedules and other limited resources. This is our fundamental challenge.

To overcome those challenges, designers must approach the challenge…

EDPS is the Electronic Design Process Symposium, historically held in Monterey, but this year in Milpitas for the first time. My first post about the symposium is Solving the Design to Manufacturing Problems in Milpitas. That post ended saying that the...

Recently, CDNLive China was held in Shanghai. What are the highlights of PCB Track? What are the latest news in the industry? What are the development strategies for Cadence PCB/Packaging? We conducted an exclusive interview with Mr. Saugat Sen, Cadence Allegro R&D Vice President

Figure 1 Mr. Saugat presented Outstanding Paper Award to Spreadtrum

Figure 2: CDNLive China

Figure 3 In PCB Track. Saugat delivered…

At CDNLive in Taiwan in August, there was a record number of attendees, with about 880 customers and partners. There were almost 40 presentations on six different technical tracks, including a wide variety of user-authored presentations addressing all...

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays, Raul Casas, systems architect IP group, discusses the results of Cadence method for complexity reduction of a convolutional neural network.

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Monday: Conformal Smart LEC

Tuesday: Grace Hopper Celebrating Women in Computing

Wednesday: SEMI on China Semiconductor Market

Thursday: Linley Gwennap on the Processor ...

Last week’s blog ended with some of the IOT trends that Somshubhro Pal Choudhury, who was a guest speaker at CDNLive India 2017, spoke about during his talk.

This blog post will look at some of the vertical markets where, according to Som, there...

Tomorrow it is the Linley Microprocessor Conference and Pulin Desai of Cadence is one of the presenters this morning. He will be talking about Scaling Embedded Inference Performance for Deep Learning.

Of course, Deep Learning (DL) is one...

PSS is the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard. Or I should say proposed standard, since it isn't finalized yet. At CDNLive India, Prabhat Gupta of AMD presented First Encounter with Emerging Portable Stimulus Methodology. Of course, since the standard...

In the past, some of you have expressed the desire to have all the information and content specific to a product at one place. You said it, we did it!

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You know how you sometimes say "the other day" as if it was last week, or maybe the week before, when actually it was several months ago? Well, the other day, I attended a presentation by Garage Technology Ventures on The Art and Science...

Jim Hogan is a graduate of San Jose State University. Despite the prestige of Stanford and Berkeley producing a lot of researchers, SJSU is a major resource producing the large cadre of practitioners that Silicon Valley requires. Last week, at SJSU, Jim...

One of the invited talks that we had at CDNLive was by Somshubhro Pal Choudhury, partner at Bharat Innovations, a startup venture fund aimed at innovative, IP-related startups out of India. Som is actively involved in the IESA’s Internet of Things (IOT...

The second day keynote at the recent (well, over a month ago, there's been lots to blog about) HOTCHIPS conference in Cupertino was by Google's Jeff Dean, who heads up the Google Brain Team. He talked on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence...

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays, Raul Casas, systems architect IP group, talks about machine learning moving from servers to the edge where the power consumption budget is critical. Cadence developed a method for reduction of complexity of a convolutional neural network.

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Coming from my car (camera Sean)

Monday: AMD's early experiences with PSS

Tuesday: Accelerating deep learning with Tensilica

Wednesday: Jim Hogan at SJSU

Thursday: EDPS II

Friday: Decoding Formal Club

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Latency simulations are the sworn enemy of the verification schedule. A handful of tests add days to weeks for each regression cycle; and when you add in the fact that they can’t be parallelized like the shorter bandwidth simulations, it gets hard to manage an engineer’s time efficiently. But…

What if there was a better way?

Since the olden days of simulation, all of that was true. Bandwidth sims…

Yesterday I wrote about EDPS, which takes place at SEMI. Today, I'm writing about SEMI's Strategic Materials Conference (SMC), which doesn't take place at SEMI but at the Doubletree. A few decades ago, semiconductor manufacturing only used a few elements...

Finding a way out of situations is routine in today’s ever changing world—more so in the world of tech. Our problems range from trivial to critical. Mostly, people look for simple solutions that are easy to use. How sometimes a quick note can resolve...