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For power and performance reasons, video and vision processing are attractive to offload from the main processor in a datacenter or in an embedded device. An Intel x86 server processor, or a 64-bit ARM^® processor are not the best tools for the task...

As part three of the “Making Hardware Design Great Again” series, let’s see how high-level synthesis (HLS) is helping designers create SoCs for WiFi, Bluetooth, and 5G.

A common challenge in all three wireless spaces is that their standards are evolving… rapidly. Each new specification, or sub-specification, opens new opportunities. It’s a good opportunity for companies to establish themselves as providers…

Every year Cadence Design Systems an industry leader in the Electronic Design Automation Industry hosts worldwide CDNLive forums where Cadence technology users and technical industry experts showcase their latest innovations using Cadence technologies associated with designing Digital ICs, Mixed-Signal ICs and PCBs.

This year at CDNLive Silicon Valley from April 11^th to April 12^th the PCB simulation session track is showcasing…

Have you tried a product incorporating the new USB Type-C port? Do you wonder how well it works? I recently bought a new laptop and monitor that support this interface. In fact, Type-C is the only port on those devices.

Image courtesy Austin Event Photography

I’ve been looking forward to the promise of a single, all-encompassing port ever since I wrote Why USB 3.0 Will Drive SoC Verification back in 2013. Well…

GOMACTech is the GOvernment Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology conference. Basically military electronics, with a sprinkling of other government topics like spectrum allocation and space. This year it was held in Reno, Nevada. Next year...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett describes his experience as a user of a new laptop incorporating the USB Type-C interface.  He explains the 3 main features of USB Type-C and the 3 key benefits that the interface delivers.

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This is the second of two posts on the CASPA Symposium on Autonomous Driving. The first was CASPA Autonomous Driving 1.

Chia-Lin talked on Are We There Yet? Autonomous Cars and Legal Considerations. If Max suffered from the "if all...

Zhan Gao studied microelectronics in the Xidian University in China and after getting her master’s degree in developing an algorithm to abstract parasitic capacitors at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, she chose to continue with research and is...

Recently, CASPA, the Chinese-American Semiconductor Professionals Association, held a symposium on automotive driving. Having chaired a panel for them once, I seem to be a sort of honorary member (虽然我不是中国人). Even though it was a Saturday afternoon and...

In the days when the ESD Alliance was still called EDAC, they used to organize a CEO Forecast Panel at the start of the year. This never worked that well since any date chosen would be in one of the big three EDA companies' quiet periods between the end...

In Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler, it’s not unusual to see a large number of records in the Outputs Setup and Results tabs. At times, the number of records is so high that it is difficult to focus on a relevant set of rows or columns. In such scenarios, you may want to customize these tabs to show selected rows or columns, rearrange them in a specific order, or search for some specific values…

There is a famous 1981 movie called My Dinner with Andre. If you've not seen it, you might expect that it is like most movies and rather more happens than is conveyed in the title. But, no, the movie is basically a conversation over dinner for two hours...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a two-part series, Megha Daga continues her discussion on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).  This week she talks about the different architectural layers present in CNN and how they contribute to object detection and classification in a real world scenario.

https://youtu.be/YSGihRkpfms

Tomorrow, I'll be talking about one of Lucio Lanza's latest areas of interest, having had breakfast with him recently. But I thought I'd also republish a blog post that resulted from a chat that I had with him that I did a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/juyMucCfa-I

Coming from the Cadence parking lot

Monday: CASPA Autonomous Driving 1

Tuesday: CASPA Autonomous Driving 2

Wednesday: GOMAC, Government Microelectronics

Thursday: Linley Autonomous Conference

Friday: What Keeps MGM...

This is the second part of a two-part post about the SDE Circle of Life. The first part was on Friday.

I like to say that the world changed on January 9th, 2007—at the moment when Hang (Hannah) Zhang, a barista at a Starbucks in San Francisco, received...

There seems to be a big picture phenomenon that I like to call the System Design Enablement (SDE) Circle of Life, whereby IC design knowledge switches from being something to be outsourced to be the only route to differentiation, and back.

If you have...

One of the most interesting things I saw at MWC was a meeting I had with Mark-Eric Jones. Full disclosure: I've known Mark-Eric for over twenty years and he is a friend. He is CEO of a company called Léman Micro Devices. Lac Léman is a lake on the French...

This is the second of two posts about last week's TSMC Technology Symposium. The first was yesterday and covered the big picture presented in the morning.

It's a good job TSMC doesn't do countdowns for rocket launches. It seems to go 28...20, no...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a two-part series, Megha Daga explores Convolutional Neural Networks which are biologically inspired models of neurons in the brain.  She details how CNN is leveraged in many of today's use cases such as mobile, surveillance and automotive.

www.youtube.com/watch

Related Resources:

• Embedded Neural Network Summit 2017 Presentations
• Dennis Crespo on…

https://youtu.be/-_33atq9vRY

Coming from National Automobile Museum, Reno, NV

Monday: SDE Circle of Life Today

Tuesday: How Lucio Went from Italy to EDA Via Intel

Wednesday: My Breakfast with Lucio

Thursday: Virtual Dummy Metal Fill

Friday: ESD...

TSMC had their annual Technology Symposium last week. As always, my post comes with a caveat: TSMC will not allow pictures to be taken, recordings to be made, and they don't hand out any materials. This is entirely fro my notes. That said, here's what...

Cadence, X-FAB, Coventor and Reutlingen University have Selected 10 Design Teams as Semi-Finalists  

Cadence Academic Network, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University have teamed up since the beginning of 2016, to organize a worldwide MEMS Design Contest...