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I have been at SEMICON West recently. Just a little introduction in case you don't know much about it. SEMICON is one of several conferences run by SEMI around the world. SEMI is the semiconductor equipment manufacturers association. SEMICON West is held...

The best part about programming in SKILL™ is that you don't have to build everything from scratch. Cadence provides SKILL APIs that let you quickly and easily customize existing CAD applications and develop new ones. Before you adopt any new API, you have to first understand its usage and behavior. At times, you start using an API thinking you know all that you need to know about it, only to get stuck at some…

One of the main targets of the Cadence Academic Network is to present latest Cadence technologies to academia. Therefore, the Academic Network has organized a series of workshops on different technologies across Europe.

Advanced Verification for Academia...

At CDNLive in Munich, Cadence's Robert Schweiger gave a walkthrough all of the things that Cadence is doing in automotive. In yesterday's post, CDNDrive: Cadence Automotive IP Solutions, I gave an overview and wrote about the automotive IP solutions...

https://youtu.be/vzXHenSMfoM

Coming from the Cadence campus (camera Sean)

Monday: SEMICON: China, China, China

Tuesday: The Four Ts: Trade, Tax, Talent and Technology Funding

Wednesday: Bosch: the Future of Connected Mobility

Thursday: Cadence...

At CDNLive in Munich, Cadence's Robert Schweiger gave a walkthrough all of the things that Cadence is doing in automotive. Since Cadence's Virtuoso platform is a leader in analog design, Cadence has been in automotive semiconductor since the market has...

If you missed Michelle Mao’s presentation at the recent Autosens conference in Detroit, “What Will It Take to Bring DNN to Embedded?”, you missed an important evaluation of how designers can do four fundamental things to lower the power budget and bring deep neural networks (DNNs) to embedded systems:

• Optimize the network architecture
• Optimize the problem definition
• Minimize the number of bits per…

At the recent Autosens conference in Detroit, Cadence's Michelle (Xuehong) Mao presented on the challenge of bringing Deep Neural Nets to Embedded. I covered the first part of her talk yesterday in CactusNet: One Network to Rule Them All.

As a reminder...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, IP Architect Gopi Krishnamurthy explains the lane margining requirements of the PCI Express 4.0 specification.  This spec standardized the previously ad hoc approaches to measuring lane performance in the face of crosstalk, reflection, and jitter caused by process, voltage, and temperature variations.

https://youtu.be/OD9gmIMxgIo

Design Automatisation Conference (DAC) is the largest EDA conference in the world, where all important players in EDA industry show their production, at the same time, it is also the most important EDA conference for academia, where only the best papers...

There is a widening split in the approaches being taken by academic attempts to built deep neural networks (DNNs) with more powerful recognition, and implementation approaches that are trying to be more practical. The academics are largely interested...

In New York, there is an occasion four times a year known as the "triple witching hour." JK Rowling might have come up with the phrase, but, in fact, it is the last hour of trading on the third Friday of the last month of each quarter. On those days,...

https://youtu.be/hEhCQwICR4g

Coming from the Computer History Museum, Mountain View (camera Grace Wu)

Monday: Triple Witching Hour for Automotive

Tuesday: CactusNet: One Network to Rule Them All

Wednesday: CactusNet: Moving Neural Nets from the Cloud...

Hi All,

If you were unable to attend IMS 2017 in June 2017, the IMS MicroApp “7 Habits of Highly Successful S-Parameters” is on our Cadence website.

On Cadence Online Support,  the in-depth AppNote is here:  20466646 .

Best regards,

Tawna

Many things in Virtuoso can be customized, showing/hiding and configuring the layout of assistants and toolbars are no exception. They can be configured and saved as a workspace. It seems that this might be a little known fact, so I'll explain with an example.

Take Virtuoso ADE Explorer for example, we have assistants for Parasitics & Electrical Setup, Parasitic Filters, Parasitic Report, Explorer Run Summar…

Today, there is always a universal demand for learning and troubleshooting easily and quickly. Most users of any product or tool want access to a self-service knowledge-base to be able to troubleshoot the issue on their own. They do not generally want...

Yesterday, I wrote about The Kansas City Hyatt Walkway Collapse. I showed a close up of the change made to the original design to make the construction simpler. To recap, in the picture below, to avoid having extremely long threaded rods as in the design...

It is coming up to July 4 week. Cadence will be shut down and Breakfast Bytes will be on hiatus. On shutdowns like this, I traditionally find something that might well interest the sort of people who read Breakfast Bytes but is only peripherally related...

At DAC, Dick James gave a fascinating presentation on system in package, or SiP, at the DAC pavilion. In fact, as a general statement, I have to say that the standard of presentations at the pavilion was very high, and others obviously agreed since many...

The Wednesday of DAC means the Cadence Mixed-Signal Lunch. For the Digital Lunch, see my post Table for 7—Lunch at the Leading Edge. The mixed-signal topic was Overcoming Mixed-Signal Design and Verification Challenges in Automotive and IoT Systems...

https://youtu.be/iGQHYEbzcII

Coming from the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany (camera me)

Monday: The Kansas City Hyatt Puzzle

Tuesday: The Kansas City Hyatt Solution

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