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Monday: Discovery of the Electron

Tuesday: Battery Derangement Syndrome

Wednesday: Moving Logic to the 3rd Dimension

Thursday: I Know What the SDI in Samsung SDI Stands...

Yes, it’s Tensilica’s birthday! Twenty years ago today, on July 31, 1997, Tensilica was officially incorporated by Chris Rowen, who I knew from our Synopsys days when he was VP of the Design Reuse Business Unit.  I started working with Tensilica (as a PR consultant) when there were eight people in the office next to the Duke of Edinburgh pub on Wolfe road in Cupertino. I became a Tensilica employee in 2002…

You probably know that Harry Potter's birthday is July 31st. As it happens, that was the same day that Tensilica was founded. Furthermore, both started 20 years ago. The first Harry Potter book was actually published first, on June 26th 1997. On July...

We have been busy working on several small UI enhancements for Assembler & Explorer that will have a big impact! In this blog, I will give you an overview of the enhancements we have made to the Results tab, Corners Setup form, and the Data View and Setup assistants.

Ever wished you could see the test name in the Detail Transpose view? Well, if you are using lC6.1.7 ISR10 or a…

All chips need to cold reset on every power-up. Warm resets, however, are a bit more complicated. Take a smartphone screen, for example. The screen may power down while the phone is idle. However, the user will want it to return to their pre-set brightness level on power-up. Chips have to be tested for multiple warm-reset scenarios, and each of these tests take a very long time.

Enter Xcelium Simulator, and X-propagation…

During the summer, while the living is easy and the fish are jumping, each Friday I'll take a look at computer museum or some artifacts there. Starting this week with the one in Cadence San Jose's backyard just along Montague Expressway: The Intel Museum...

Ready to take the next step in simulation technology with a true third-generation engine, with multi-core technology? ­ Cadence® Xcelium™ Simulator allows you to have unprecedented control over your tests including to further tailor test sequencing to your specific hardware needs.

Get started immediately with the new release Xcelium 17.04 by using the central page on https://support.cadence.com to learn…

Yesterday, I wrote about automotive security from a big-picture level. Today let's drop down and look at some implementation approaches from the chip level. This comes from Thomas Kallstenious, who is imec's program director for security. At the imec...

On July 17, 2017, Cadence announced that the Cadence® Functional Safety Verification Solution had been adopted by ROHM CO., Ltd as part of its deisgn flow for ISO 26262-compliant ICs and LSIs for the automotive market. Cadence fault simulation tech can quickly and easily deal with the complexities around many types of faults, including single event transient (SET), stuck-at-0 or 1, dual-point faults, and more. It also…

Interested in an easy-to-use, collaborative, and robust design-environment that reduces design cycle? Use, Cadence® Allegro® and OrCAD® release 17.2-2016.  Here are the 10 Top Reasons to Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016 Release  This enables you to accelerate your PCB design cycle. 

Get started immediately with the new release using the central page on https://support.cadence.com. It lists important links to Allegro…

Ofer Ben Noon, CEO and co-founder of Argus Cybersecurity, had the job of raining on the parade at the Automotiv Elektronik Kongress in Ludwigsburg recently. On the day he was speaking, Europe was under attack, Ukraine was largely shut down, big-name shipping...

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Marc Greenberg describes the post-package repair capability introduced in the LPDDR4 specification which is expected to increase in importance for future LP/DDR5 memories.

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Undoubtedly, the most important component of any online portal is CONTENT and its Ease of Accessibility. In the digital world, content is a mix of text, graphic, video, and so on. This blog covers different types of collateral available on Cadence Support...

As NVIDIA's Jensen Huang pointed out a few weeks ago, and I covered in my blog post yesterday NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on Accelerating the Race to Autonomous Cars, processors are not getting any faster. Instruction-level parallelism is all tapped...

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Coming from hyperspace (camera Sean, editing me)

Monday: Moving Logic into the 3rd Dimension

Tuesday: An Academic View on How Tesla Will Not Win

Wednesday: Samsung SDI on Batteries

Thursday: O Lord Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes...

At Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), the team working to create IP for “The Machine,” HPE’s vision for the future of computing, recently decided to make the switch to the Xcelium Simulator from their old mix of simulators. To gauge how much Xcelium would help improve their productivity, engineers at HPE devised a series of trials. Each trial applied a specific set of circumstances to check how Xcelium would perform in…

When you push more of your board into high-performance design fabric like an SoC, suddenly you have the scope for differentiation and innovation in an SoC that you design yourself. Custom SoCs increase differentiation, reliability, IP protection, security of supply, and performance. They also decrease board size, power, BOM, and cost. Are you ready to take the leap?

Many companies are working with custom ASICs these…

Jensen (Jen-Hsun) Huang is CEO of NVIDIA. If you know anything about NVIDIA, it is probably that they have a strong position in the graphic processor unit (GPU) market, especially for video games. However, their industry has been changing. A GPU is a...

I sat down with Tracy Zhu to find out about the academic network in Asia Pacific. I'm based in San Jose, and she is based in Shanghai, so the obvious place to meet is...a biergarten in Munich!

She joined a year ago from running an academic program...

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Coming from the Intel Museum (camera Sean)

Monday: NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on Accelerating the Race to Autonomous Cars

Tuesday: Embargoed Product Announcement

Wednesday: Automotive: One Thing Could Shut Down this Party...

At the conference in Ludwigsburg that I attended, Volkmar Denner, head of management at Bosch, talked about the future of connected mobility. Bosch is the largest tier-1 automotive supplier in Europe. However, they are not limited to automotive and also...

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Marc Greenberg explains the difference between error correcting code (ECC) implementation using a traditional sideband architecture vs. the new in-line ECC used in LPDDR4 which delivers improved error correction for sensitive applications like automotive electronics.

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One of my favorite quotes about SW programming is the following by Edsger Dijkstra: "If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." Yes, we all insert bugs while we write code. And a significant part of the verification development time is spent on debugging. You might be tempted to think that most debugging time is spent on detecting errors like memory…

If you work in the semiconductor industry, and you probably do if you are reading this, then you know how fascinating it is. There has never been a technology like it, that is both unbelievably complex and moves at such an incredible pace. But it is not...