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This Wednesday was TSMC's OIP Ecosystem Forum, one of two major events that TSMC run each year. The stars of the OIP Symposium are not so much TSMC themselves but their partners, one of whom is Cadence. We presented six papers during the day, and had...

https://youtu.be/mrUIXwMuNy8

Coming from TSMC OIP Symposium, Santa Clara (camera Sean)

Monday: Legato: Smooth Memory Design

Tuesday: CDNLive India 2017 Trip Report

Wednesday: India, Singapore, Hong Kong

Thursday: Using Neural Nets to Make Neural N...

In a recent feature article at Electronic Engineering Journal, Kevin Morris asks Why are Design Tools So Bad? Or...What? Another Bug?

You will have to read the whole piece if you want to see the entire argument, but here's a sort of summary:

CDNLive India concluded last Friday and what an event it was! With 87 paper presentations, six keynotes, an exhibition area, photo booth, Cadence technology pods and more, CDNLive once again proved to be one of the premier industry conferences.

Both...

A quick guide to TSMC processes. There is a 10nm process but very little development is being done at that node. It is like the mad wife kept in the attic like in Jane Eyre. It seems to be primarily for production of the big names in mobile. In general...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Mengjun Leng follows up on last week's video where she introduced the project of evaluating the speed of different deep learning platforms. In this episode, she continues to share the preliminary evaluation results and highlights future work.

https://youtu.be/5JXSdq1wPa8

If you’re designing chips for in-vehicle infotainment, in-cabin electronics, vision systems, digital noise reduction, and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), look at Cadence for the key IP to speed your design effort.

We just announced that we have collaborated with a major foundry to produce an IP portfolio that’s ASIL-B ready and ASIL-C/D capable. See the press release for full details. Cadence IP…

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...