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At TSMC's OIP Ecosystem Symposium, Cadence's Frank Schirrmeister presented on Software-Driven Optimization for Performance, Power, and Thermal Tradeoffs. In this case, the "software" doesn't mean Cadence EDA tools but rather using the target software...

ISO 26262 is the functional safety standard for automotive, as you probably already know. It is hard to attend any event concerned with semiconductors without hearing about automotive. The automotive market has been memorably described as a pot of gold...

https://youtu.be/OQ1c30nbD0s

Monday: Red Hat's Jon Masters talks about ARM servers and open source

Tuesday: ARM's Daryl Stewart talks about making the ARM architecture reference manual machine-readable

Wednesday: Jürgen Wyer of NXP started...

The second keynote on the first day of ARM TechCon was a double act with Greg Yeric, a fellow from ARM's research labs in Austin, followed by Mike Muller, ARM's CTO.

I have seen Greg talk before, and he seems always to have the...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three part series focusing on Functional Safety for autonomous driving, Charles Qi discusses the industry trends and requirements for self-driving vehicles.

Who wrote the book on formal verification? Depending on whether you want to take the question literally or metaphorically, the answer is either Intel's Erik Seligman or Cadence's Jasper product group.

As usual, Oz got things rolling...

Are you contemplating manipulating your layout hierarchy by adding or removing a few levels? Are you wondering if having a layout hierarchy out of sync with the schematic is advisable? Well, neither I (nor Cadence) will recommend that you play around...

Eben Upton gave a spellbinding keynote at ARM TechCon on the history of Raspberry Pi. He is a founder of the Raspberry Pi foundation and also an ASIC designer at Broadcom. Unusually for a keynote like that, he had no powerpoint. He just stood on stage...

Charlie Miller gave a keynote at ARM TechCon on automotive security. He is regarded as one of the world's most proficient hacker, although he is one of the good guys (a white hat in security parlance). He has a PhD, worked for the NSA, and is currently...

https://youtu.be/n4jz8shM1hM

Monday: The amazing story of Raspberry Pi as told by Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi foundation

Tuesday: The Jasper User Group is the largest gathering of formal verification engineers each year. See what is...

One of the big themes of pretty much any conference on semiconductors these days is automotive, and DVCon Europe was no exception. For me the most memorable phrase of the day was from Amir Rahat of Optima, that automotive semiconductors are "a pot of...

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is a key kernel in almost all DSP applications, and an important benchmark for assessing the efficiency of a DSP.  In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pushkar Patwardhan discusses how efficient FFTs are on the Tensilica ConnX BBE32EP, a DSP targeted for complex number processing in wireless baseband and radar applications.

https://youtu.be/IDg4u_qux44

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Do you remember what life was like before the internet and smart phones? If you wanted to find information about something, you had to go to the library and find a book that could answer your question, which usually meant a delay of anything from a few hours to several days. Then the internet happened, and the world as we know it changed forever. Smart phones came along, and brought with them a new kind of freedom and…

On the first day of the Linley Processor conference someone told me that he was really looking forward to the presentation the following day from Wave Computing. I had to confess I'd never heard of them. That wasn't entirely surprising. Chris Nicol, their...

When I was growing up, there was a TV show in the UK called Steptoe and Son, and renamed Sanford and Son when it was remade for the US market. Yesterday was the Segars and Son show. Son's company Softbank acquired Simon Segars' company ARM about six weeks...

On October 20, 2016, 12 Masters and Ph.D. students mostly from Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University visited the Cadence Beijing Office.

The group was welcomed by Tracy Zhu, Cadence Academic Network Program Manager in Asia Pacific. Then...

Enhanced Contour Routing is a new prototype feature in the Cadence® Allegro® PCB Designer 17.2-2016 that provides a more efficient method to add routing during Add Connect by following an existing connect line or a route keepin. This feature has been vastly improved over the legacy Contour feature by removing a continuous dialog popup, introducing a simple canvas-based two-state click use model, and enabling Sho…

The whole afternoon the second day of the Linley Processor Conference was dedicated to automotive. To show how important this has become, what used to be the Mobile Processor Conference is no more, and in 2017 there will be an Autonomous Processor Conference...

I wrote recently about the keynote from the Linley processor conference about network virtualization, and an analogy with server virtualization. One question that I know from when I worked at VaST and Virtutech is that the whole idea of virtualization...

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It's Automotive Week on Breakfast Bytes.

Monday: Mike Demler's overview of automotive and the NXP keynote from the Linley Processor Conference

Tuesday: Segars and Son, the opening keynote from ARM TechCon

Sophia Antipolis is in the south of France, a sort of research park carved out of scrubland on top of a plateau inland from Antibes (Antipolis is the Latin name for Antibes). It was created in the 1970s and built up slowly. The initial "companies" that...

We need our cars to be safe as the amount of electronics in them increases almost exponentially. One aspect of that is that the component suppliers need to provide Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) certification, which includes a formal assessment...