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At the semiconductor level, automotive poses huge challenges due to an experience mismatch. On one hand are the traditional automotive semiconductor companies, who have a deep experience in automotive reliability, but mostly in low-complexity devices...

"It takes a village to raise a child," as the African proverb says. It seems to take a good part of the semiconductor ecosystem to design a 7nm CCIX test vehicle.

CCIX is quite new so here's a little review. It stands for Cache...

There were three keynotes to kick off CDNLive Boston. Tom Beckley gave the Cadence keynote, then Professor Duane Boning from MIT brought us up to date on photonics, and finally Jim Borowick from Medtronics told us how to design a pacemaker.

It is funny...

At HOTCHIPS 2017, we had a special break so we could watch the eclipse. Of course, Cupertino wasn't on the path of totality. We had to share a very limited number of eclipse glasses since the ones the conference had organized were stuck in customs. Since...

https://youtu.be/ljGLKZ0gz8c

Coming from Singapore Botanic Garden (camera Page Teh)

Monday: CCIX, review and an announcement

Tuesday: Why Are Design Tools So Bad? Or Are They?

Wednesday:TSMC OIP Embargoed Announcment

Thursday: A Record...And a C...

For any parasitic extraction tool, there is always a tradeoff between performance and accuracy. If SPICE simulations were billions of times faster then we would use circuit simulation for large designs. In extraction, we typically use what is known...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays episode, Mengjun Leng investigates different deep learning platforms, such as Caffe, TensorFlow, MatConvNet, running on GPUs. We will talk about why and how we compare different platforms for their training and inference speed. In the next episode, we will share with your our preliminary evaluation results.

https://youtu.be/cFmmzjjgEQU

A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Naveed Sherwani, the new CEO of SiFive. For more background on them, see my post SiFive: a RISC-V Fabless Semiconductor Company.

Naveed did his PhD in the mid-80s on EDA in general and routing in particular...

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed report on internet trends. There is a lot of detail. And when I say "a lot" I mean that this year's report is 355 slides long. I covered most topics in...

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed report on internet trends. There is a lot of detail. And when I say "a lot" I mean that this year's report is 355 slides long. I covered most topics in...

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Samer Hijazi, Senior Design Architect, does a deep dive into Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and the deep learning techniques that are driving this technology to the edge.

https://youtu.be/LkSuqJBUC6g

It’s almost time for CDNLive India! For those of you who don’t know, CDNLive is Cadence’s annual user conference that is held in nine cities around the world. In India it is always held in Bangalore, India’s tech hub. CDNLive brings together Cadence technology...

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed report on internet trends. She looks at different areas, such as advertising or gaming, and different geographies, such as India or China. There is a lot of detail...

This is the 500th post I've written for Breakfast Bytes since I re-joined Cadence in October 2015. Apart from during Cadence shutdowns, Breakfast Bytes has appeared every weekday ("fresh every morning"). Since a post averages about 1000 words, it sounds...

Recently I was at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View. For more about the museum, see Computer History Museum History. There are so many historical computers that it is impossible to summarize. Instead, I decided to take a personal approach...

https://youtu.be/owSAPwuzYnA

Coming from Saint Francis Yacht Club (camera Gary Bengier)

Monday: The 500th Breakfast Bytes Post

Tuesday: Mary Meeker on Internet Trends

Wednesday: Meeker on Internet Trends in China

Thursday: Meeker on Internet Trends...

Almost everything has to be differentiated from alternatives in some way. There are some things that are not, and we have a special word for that, "commodity." For some reason, the archetype of this is a trainload of pork bellies, because...

Cadence provides products across the EDA spectrum, from Silicon Package Board to Digital IC. Each of these areas, called platforms in Cadence parlance, have multiple tools that help achieve specific parts of the design flow. Consequently, each platform...