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In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Samer Hijazi, Senior Design Architect, does a deep dive into Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and the deep learning techniques that are driving this technology to the edge.

https://youtu.be/LkSuqJBUC6g

It’s almost time for CDNLive India! For those of you who don’t know, CDNLive is Cadence’s annual user conference that is held in nine cities around the world. In India it is always held in Bangalore, India’s tech hub. CDNLive brings together Cadence technology...

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed report on internet trends. She looks at different areas, such as advertising or gaming, and different geographies, such as India or China. There is a lot of detail...

This is the 500th post I've written for Breakfast Bytes since I re-joined Cadence in October 2015. Apart from during Cadence shutdowns, Breakfast Bytes has appeared every weekday ("fresh every morning"). Since a post averages about 1000 words, it sounds...

Recently I was at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View. For more about the museum, see Computer History Museum History. There are so many historical computers that it is impossible to summarize. Instead, I decided to take a personal approach...

https://youtu.be/owSAPwuzYnA

Coming from Saint Francis Yacht Club (camera Gary Bengier)

Monday: The 500th Breakfast Bytes Post

Tuesday: Mary Meeker on Internet Trends

Wednesday: Meeker on Internet Trends in China

Thursday: Meeker on Internet Trends...

Almost everything has to be differentiated from alternatives in some way. There are some things that are not, and we have a special word for that, "commodity." For some reason, the archetype of this is a trainload of pork bellies, because...

Cadence provides products across the EDA spectrum, from Silicon Package Board to Digital IC. Each of these areas, called platforms in Cadence parlance, have multiple tools that help achieve specific parts of the design flow. Consequently, each platform...

It’s no secret that the bulk of time running simulations is spent on the testbench side. You can throw as many cores as you want at the DUT when you’re running RTL tests, but let's face it, it’s the testbench itself that’s bottlenecking you. Let’s say it takes thirty minutes to run the testbench side, and thirty minutes to run the tests themselves. You can use multi-core parallelism to massively shrink the DUT time, but…

Some things in semiconductor manufacturing sound made up when you first hear about them. Through silicon vias? You're joking, right? Chemical-mechanical polishing/planarization (CMP)? You mean after all that super thousand-times-cleaner-than-an-operating...

PCI-SIG Developer’s Conference 2017 was held in Santa Clara, California in June this year where several hundred customers from more than a hundred unique companies visited the conference. The next-generation PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 specification was announced with plans for ratification in 2019. The announcement had a supporting quote by Cadence confirming our long-term commitment to developing products for PCIe…

In October 2016, an 18-wheeler truck traveled 120 miles in the US and delivered 50,000 cans of beer. Nothing remarkable in that, except that the truck drove itself while a driver on board relaxed. Such tests are happening in Europe as well. Keeping in...

Here’s an experiment to try: in a quiet (but crowded) Auditorium, drop a stack of plates.

Hypothesis: At the first splinters of the crash, all eyes will jerk to the source of the sound.

You probably won’t get many people listening harder to find out what happened. Yes, our hearing can give us a lot of information, too—it can indicate direction, distance, magnitude, and even give some ideas about what happened…

The idea of BarCamp was established the first time by the Internet pioneer Tim O’Reilly in 2003 at his farm in San Francisco Bay. The invited people were developers, journalists, programmers, start-up-entrepreneur and thinkers...

The afternoon of the first day of SEMICON West was taken up by a series of presentations and a panel session called the China Innovation and Investment Forum. The participants were:

• Lung Chu, SEMI China (moderator)
• Hing Wong of Walden Internation...

Recently the Linley Group held their IoT Hardware Conference. Mike Demler kicked off with an overview of the IoT market, and on the second day Linley Gwenapp presented a deeper dive into IoT chips (leaving out processors available as IP blocks). Cadence...

After leaving the title of yesterday's post in German, the obvious place to go for the next stop on the summer of computer museums is Germany.

If you ask people which was the first digital computer, the answer tends to vary with the respondent...

Fehlerkultur is apparently untranslatable into English, at least according to Michael Würtenburger, the head of BMW car IT. His best try was "no-blame organization." His theme echoed many other presenters during the two days, that the automotive industry...

https://youtu.be/IE1B-CmmtSs

Coming from Cadence building 10 patio (camera Paula Jones)

Monday: Linley Group Looks at the IoT Market

Tuesday: SEMICON China Panel

Wednesday: Integrated Virtual Dummy Metal Fill

Thursday: Dare to be Different

Friday...

The use of silicon photonics allows semiconductor designers to leverage the billions of dollars invested in existing manufacturing facilities, integrating electronics and optical on the same die or in the same package. Breakfast Byte’s blogger Paul McLellan has written quite a few excellent blogs about Silicon Photonics. In one …

Hefty books give many people shivers, especially in the tech world. ‘Table of Contents’ often comes to rescue and lets the learner scroll to a topic of interest. However, going through many and various chapters to learn one specific item is tedious and...

Rich Kennewick gave the keynote on the second day of the Linley IoT Hardware Conference recently. He is the CEO of a company called Voicebox and his keynote was Enabling Voice in the IoT. I had not heard of Voicebox and that is because they don't sell...

There has been a lot of news lately about manufacturing under the “Make In India” banner. In the last ten days alone, the Kalyani Group has announced the country’s first-ever private missile subsystems manufacturing facility in partnership...