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Shalom. Today is CDNLive Israel in Tel Aviv. At least getting here from San Francisco has got easier, since United now has direct flights three days a week. But for locals, it is not so easy:

Commuters traveling to Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial hub,...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Lana Chan explores the history of PCI Express (PCIe) and how it evolved into the de facto interconnect standard it is today.

https://youtu.be/DhCbf-SCPfk

On September 14 and 15, MIPI held its first developer conference. For more background, see my posts Cadence's History with MIPI and MIPI SoundWire.

There were two keynotes on the first day. The first was by Linley Gwennap of the Linley Group. This...

Customer inputs are key to product improvements

I can read your minds as you digest the features and benefits of our Allegro 17.2-2016 Release. “Oh no, what have they done now to disrupt my environment?” If you have been an Allegro user for many years, you know what I’m talking about. Dot Zero releases as we call them are our chance to make database / schema changes that result in some level of migration…

At CDNLive Boston, I moderated a panel session on signal and power integrity with a panel of five true experts on the topics. They work on some of the highest performance systems out there. It was a double-length session, taking up two slots at the end...

Great Academic Networking in Taiwan

With the support of the Cadence Academic Network, Cadence Taiwan joined the 27th VLSI Design/CAD 2016 Symposium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.  Cadence connected with approximately 800 attendees from local industries, and academic...

Since the year 2000, the European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC) and the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) have joined their organization committees in order to bring together one of the most exciting  events of the year...

A codec compresses data for transmission. The first codec I had any close encounter with was the full-rate speech coder used in GSM. This compressed voice into 13kb/s. For comparison, wired phones transmitted uncompressed data at 56kb/s (US) or 64kb/s...

https://youtu.be/KKiIDaN-3CE

Monday: At CDNLive Boston I moderated a panel session with east coast experts on Signal and Power Integrity.

Tuesday: I present the highlights of MIPI's first developer conference, as MIPI transitions from being mobile-only...

At CDNLive in Boston, Andrew Ross of AMD presented a wealth of practical information about how best to use emulation.

He broke things down into four main areas: hardware systems, workflow, stimulus, and design. He pointed out that there are really two...

In EDA you traditionally have to know several modelling languages for several domains. One of those domains is functional verification. In functional verification you will be working with Hardware Design Languages (HDLs), Hardware Verification Languages...

IEEE 802.3 is the standard number for various flavors of Ethernet. With Ethernet constantly increasing its speed for use in data centers, Ethernet moving into vehicles, power over Ethernet, and Ethernet over various media, there is a lot of work going...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Michelle Mao follows up on last week's video and takes a closer look at Hierarchical CNN and how to train different networks for family and member classification.

https://youtu.be/WzPcECV5Uqs

At CDNLive Boston, the invited keynote was by Dr. Bill Chappell of DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office. Since he took the position in mid-2014, he has focused the office on three key thrusts important to national security. These thrusts include ensuring...

Way back in 2006, Luciano Lavagno, Lou Scheffer, and Grant Martin, all then at Cadence, edited a two-volume book on EDA. The first volume covered EDA for IC System Design, Verification and Testing. The second volume covered EDA for IC Implementation,...

In Barcelona in February I attended a "keynote' with Mark Zuckerberg which was actually an on-stage interview. To read what I said about it then, look at MWC: Zuckerberg Interview. One of the points he made there is that half the world needs...

https://youtu.be/eDeD0mg7D54

Monday: My review of Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design, Verification and Testing, and Electronic Design Automation for IC Implementation, Circuit Design and Process Technology. This is the second edition of...

I talked last week to Kevin Yee, Sachin Dhingra, and Moshik Rubin about the history of MIPI, Cadence's involvement with MIPI, and the upcoming MIPI DevCon that will take place on September 14 and 15 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Steve...

https://youtu.be/a1jrsatZ5f0

A couple of weeks ago I talked to Krste Asanović and Jack Kang of SiFive. Jack is the VP of product and business development. Krste is the chief architect, and, of course, the leader of the team at UC Berkeley that defined the RISC-V ISA (although he...

Use teamwork to get off the critical path!

When (not if) change happens or scope creeps... the PCB design team is always on the critical path. You can answer this schedule challenge by dynamically scaling resources with the new concurrent team design capabilities in the Allegro 17.2 2016 Release. We created this product offering to provide designers with a quick an easy way to share a common Allegro database to perform…

Lots of documents are posted on Cadence Online Support on regular basis. Let us take sneak preview of recently published documents. You can access the database by logging onto https://support.cadence.com/.

Allegro PCB Librarian XL Tutorial
This tutorial will guide users through a tour of developing library data utilizing PCB Librarian XL. You will review symbol development and the associated…

CDNLive Boston took place last week. It is really CDNLive East Coast, and there were plenty of people who had come from further afield, such as Florida and North Carolina. I came from California, along with many of the corporate marketing team that run...

I've been writing quite a bit about RISC-V (pronounced "risk five") since I think that it is going to turn out to be very significant, although it is still early days. However, momentum is truly building behind the instruction set architecture (ISA)....