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Yes, it's that time of year again. Just like a cat has nine lives, Cadence has nine CDNLives. They will take place all over the world through the year. Click on the map for more details. CDNLive kicks off in Silicon Valley April 11-12th at the Santa...

Cadence was created from the merger of SDA and ECAD, as you probably know. SDA had a number of products, by then including a layout editor that would become Virtuoso, which included an interactive DRC that would become Diva in the era when most Cadence...

At the recent Linley Cloud Hardware Conference, the keynote was given by Andy Bechtolsheim. Even if you can't quite remember who he is, you've probably heard his name. He is currently founder and chairman of Arista Networks. But he was a co-founder of...

Today at the TSMC Technology Symposium, Cliff Hou, TSMC's VP of R&D, is set to announce the latest member of TSMC's process portfolio, 12FFC. Of course, given the name, you will guess that this is a process derived from 16FFC, the third generation process...

https://youtu.be/Qm8epP4YobA

Coming from TSMC Technology Symposium, Santa Clara

Monday: Preview of CDNLive Silicon Valley

Tuesday: TSMC Technology Symposium, first report

Wednesday: TSMC Technology Symposium, second report

Thursday: Léman Micro...

Have you ever found yourself in situations where you’re not sure which values of design variables or parameters could give you the desired simulation results? Or, have you come across situations that required you to calculate the performance of a given design over a collection of design or parameter values?

I’m sure most of us would have encountered these problems several times while working with analog designs…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Alex Passi takes a closer look at Display Stream Compression and how it is used over the MIPI DSI protocol to deliver higher display resolutions to mobile devices over slower transport layers.

https://youtu.be/XVafMgmZ7oo

Cadence has attended MWC ever since it acquired Tensilica, and they attended for years before that. Tensilica DSPs are used in many areas within mobile for audio processing, video processing, high-performance modems, embedded neural networks and more...

BREAKING NEWS: I just received an email that the panel I wrote about here has been postponed to a later date due to "unforeseen circumstances." I don't know any more than that, but don't turn up at City Hall on March 23rd. More news once it is re-scheduled...

How do you define elegant or clean code? Usually, you know it when you see it; defining it is harder. It is usually a simple, clear and well-structured code. OO programming languages (like Java, C++, System Verilog, and also e) provide you with aids to write elegant code. This blog is about static members in e. Can you live without them? Usually, you can. What can they do for you? Help you write elegant and clean code…

The major conference on semiconductor reliability is the International Reliability and Physics Symposium. Although a lot of the focus these days is on semiconductors, the symposium been going on for 55 years and presumably covered a different beat when...

A lot of constraints in datacenters are fixed even though others are increasing. Networking bandwidth is doubling every two years. However, faceplate density is fixed, so there needs to be more bandwidth per socket and lower power for a given bandwidth...

Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM 15.1 and IC6.1.7 /ICADV12.2 releases? These forms have been significantly improved and simplified. The Direct Plot Form has also been enhanced and is much easy to use. Let's look at the changes that have been made in the Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms.

Below are the Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing…

This is the second of a two part post about the future of mobile, long-term dreams compared to short-term reality. Part 1 was yesterday's post The Future of Mobile: Part 1.

First of the pessimists, was John Stankey, CEO of AT&T entertainment...

Remember automobiles from a few years ago? They were pretty simple machines with lots of small microprocessors distributed across the whole vehicle and doing fairly simple tasks. Semiconductors have been in automobiles for several years, of course, with simple 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers performing functions like Anti-lock Braking (ABS).

But today’s automobiles are a different beast. They incorporate several compute…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Ofir Michaeli discusses Universal Flash Storage (UFS) and how this standard can help eliminate the memory bottleneck need to support the high performance, low power consumption needs for mobile applications and computers.

https://youtu.be/0gp5NPHHGEc

https://youtu.be/ZhpHKzcdVK8

Coming from San Jose City Hall

Monday: ESD Alliance Panel on Energy Policy for the IoT Era

Tuesday: Cadence at MWC: Does This Headset Make Me Look Silly?

Wednesday: TSMC Technology Symposium

Thursday: Andy Bechtolsheim...

There were two sessions that MWC calls "keynotes", but are actually groups of several presentations on the state of the industry. Together, the two big ones on the first day paint a picture of the industry. But depending on who was presenting, either...

Every year, Mobile World Congress (MWC) takes place in Barcelona, Spain. Historically, if you wander around the show floor, the biggest booths are the network equipment vendors, followed by the handset vendors. Of course, the network operators are here...

Just recently Cadence announced the new superb simulator, Xcelium. Just as Specman was part of the previous simulator, IES, it is now part of Xcelium.

As always, we keep enhancing and developing Specman, and the new Specman release, now part of Xcelium, contains great new capabilities. The focus in the last year was on tools that will enable you, the verification experts, to create easy to use powerful verification environments…

Intel had its investor day recently. I'm not going to talk about Intel as an investment. However, as the largest semiconductor company, with 98% market share in datacenter processors and a leader in process technology, there is plenty to take a look at...

If you are my age and grew up in Britain, then Stingray was one of the fore-runners of Thunderbirds (and Team America: World Police, in a rather different sense), made with marionettes rather than actors. This was in the days before CGI and so allowed...