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This is the second part of a two-part post about the SDE Circle of Life. The first part was on Friday.

I like to say that the world changed on January 9th, 2007—at the moment when Hang (Hannah) Zhang, a barista at a Starbucks in San Francisco, received...

There seems to be a big picture phenomenon that I like to call the System Design Enablement (SDE) Circle of Life, whereby IC design knowledge switches from being something to be outsourced to be the only route to differentiation, and back.

If you have...

One of the most interesting things I saw at MWC was a meeting I had with Mark-Eric Jones. Full disclosure: I've known Mark-Eric for over twenty years and he is a friend. He is CEO of a company called Léman Micro Devices. Lac Léman is a lake on the French...

This is the second of two posts about last week's TSMC Technology Symposium. The first was yesterday and covered the big picture presented in the morning.

It's a good job TSMC doesn't do countdowns for rocket launches. It seems to go 28...20, no...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a two-part series, Megha Daga explores Convolutional Neural Networks which are biologically inspired models of neurons in the brain.  She details how CNN is leveraged in many of today's use cases such as mobile, surveillance and automotive.

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Related Resources:

• Embedded Neural Network Summit 2017 Presentations
• Dennis Crespo on…

https://youtu.be/-_33atq9vRY

Coming from National Automobile Museum, Reno, NV

Monday: SDE Circle of Life Today

Tuesday: How Lucio Went from Italy to EDA Via Intel

Wednesday: My Breakfast with Lucio

Thursday: Virtual Dummy Metal Fill

Friday: ESD...

TSMC had their annual Technology Symposium last week. As always, my post comes with a caveat: TSMC will not allow pictures to be taken, recordings to be made, and they don't hand out any materials. This is entirely fro my notes. That said, here's what...

Cadence, X-FAB, Coventor and Reutlingen University have Selected 10 Design Teams as Semi-Finalists  

Cadence Academic Network, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University have teamed up since the beginning of 2016, to organize a worldwide MEMS Design Contest...

Yes, it's that time of year again. Just like a cat has nine lives, Cadence has nine CDNLives. They will take place all over the world through the year. Click on the map for more details. CDNLive kicks off in Silicon Valley April 11-12th at the Santa...

Cadence was created from the merger of SDA and ECAD, as you probably know. SDA had a number of products, by then including a layout editor that would become Virtuoso, which included an interactive DRC that would become Diva in the era when most Cadence...

At the recent Linley Cloud Hardware Conference, the keynote was given by Andy Bechtolsheim. Even if you can't quite remember who he is, you've probably heard his name. He is currently founder and chairman of Arista Networks. But he was a co-founder of...

Today at the TSMC Technology Symposium, Cliff Hou, TSMC's VP of R&D, is set to announce the latest member of TSMC's process portfolio, 12FFC. Of course, given the name, you will guess that this is a process derived from 16FFC, the third generation process...

https://youtu.be/Qm8epP4YobA

Coming from TSMC Technology Symposium, Santa Clara

Monday: Preview of CDNLive Silicon Valley

Tuesday: TSMC Technology Symposium, first report

Wednesday: TSMC Technology Symposium, second report

Thursday: Léman Micro...

Have you ever found yourself in situations where you’re not sure which values of design variables or parameters could give you the desired simulation results? Or, have you come across situations that required you to calculate the performance of a given design over a collection of design or parameter values?

I’m sure most of us would have encountered these problems several times while working with analog designs…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Alex Passi takes a closer look at Display Stream Compression and how it is used over the MIPI DSI protocol to deliver higher display resolutions to mobile devices over slower transport layers.

https://youtu.be/XVafMgmZ7oo

Cadence has attended MWC ever since it acquired Tensilica, and they attended for years before that. Tensilica DSPs are used in many areas within mobile for audio processing, video processing, high-performance modems, embedded neural networks and more...

BREAKING NEWS: I just received an email that the panel I wrote about here has been postponed to a later date due to "unforeseen circumstances." I don't know any more than that, but don't turn up at City Hall on March 23rd. More news once it is re-scheduled...

How do you define elegant or clean code? Usually, you know it when you see it; defining it is harder. It is usually a simple, clear and well-structured code. OO programming languages (like Java, C++, System Verilog, and also e) provide you with aids to write elegant code. This blog is about static members in e. Can you live without them? Usually, you can. What can they do for you? Help you write elegant and clean code…

The major conference on semiconductor reliability is the International Reliability and Physics Symposium. Although a lot of the focus these days is on semiconductors, the symposium been going on for 55 years and presumably covered a different beat when...

A lot of constraints in datacenters are fixed even though others are increasing. Networking bandwidth is doubling every two years. However, faceplate density is fixed, so there needs to be more bandwidth per socket and lower power for a given bandwidth...

Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM 15.1 and IC6.1.7 /ICADV12.2 releases? These forms have been significantly improved and simplified. The Direct Plot Form has also been enhanced and is much easy to use. Let's look at the changes that have been made in the Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms.

Below are the Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing…

This is the second of a two part post about the future of mobile, long-term dreams compared to short-term reality. Part 1 was yesterday's post The Future of Mobile: Part 1.

First of the pessimists, was John Stankey, CEO of AT&T entertainment...

Remember automobiles from a few years ago? They were pretty simple machines with lots of small microprocessors distributed across the whole vehicle and doing fairly simple tasks. Semiconductors have been in automobiles for several years, of course, with simple 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers performing functions like Anti-lock Braking (ABS).

But today’s automobiles are a different beast. They incorporate several compute…