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Last week I was in Belgium for imec's international technology forum (ITF). For me one of the high spots is always An Steegan's presentation on what is going on just over the horizon in process development. I will write about that in a week or two once...

Enhanced User Experience with Redesigned Virtuoso Forms

Research and customer feedback has revealed that you feel some Virtuoso forms are quite complex, with too many options displayed on the forms and use models that are unclear. Based on your feedback, we have begun redesigning the most frequently used forms across Virtuoso applications.

As you start to use the redesigned forms in Virtuoso, you will see that they are…

At the Linley IoT conference a few weeks ago, one of the presentations was by NXP's Donnie Garcia. As in all such presentations, there was some bias towards the best solution being an NXP microprocessor, but most of the presentation was at a higher level...

Usually the phrase "fireside chat" is just a figure of speech, but Wednesday's came with a real fire. A spotlight caught fire above Mentor's booth, and the entire conference center was evacuated for half an hour or so. Luckily, we got the all-clear and...

The last day of the DAC tradeshow is the best...said nobody ever. After two days in the booth for exhibitors, or two days watching non-stop demos and presentations for attendees, the third day seems endless. Although the exhibition finishes on Wednesday...

Tuesday, the second day of DAC. Last night I learned that in Texas there is a third thing that you don't discuss, to go along with politics and religion: barbecue. After the show closed, we went to the Iron Works barbecue, which is almost around the back...

Yes, indeed, we all love it when a plan comes together. A plan for running all the simulations you need, using different combinations of tests, corners, variables, and run modes. A plan that you can execute with a single button before you go home in the evening. A plan that will stop if, for some reason, your design isn't performing to spec so that you aren't wasting resources running simulations on a bad design. The…

Monday is always a hectic start to DAC. If you have been in the industry for decades, as I have, it is hard to walk more than twenty yards without meeting old friends and colleagues who have been in the industry for years, too.

Gary Smith EDA

Traditionally the start of DAC is a short presentation by Gary Smith EDA on what to see at DAC and their view on the future of the EDA industry. As usual, Lori Kate, Gary's wife (I refuse to say widow, it is a horrible word), opens with...

The e Reflection API allows you to perform various queries on entities in your own code, and to figure out which types, fields, methods, and so on have been declared in the code, the relations between them, and their source information. However, what the Reflection API does not provide is an ability to figure out if those entities are actually used, and if so, where they are used. For example, you have declared a method…

DAC starts this weekend. So what should you go to? I'll tell you what my plans are. Of course, my job is largely to find interesting things to write about here, which is probably very different from your job. So you can't just take this list and run with...

Black-belt interface and memory protocol technologists will be at your disposal at this year’s DAC (Design Automation Conference) in Austin, Texas, June 5-9. You have to sign up for some activities, so please read carefully and don’t leave everything to the last minute. The Cadence Theater is located in our booth #107, and is a place to hear from our customers and partners about Cadence IP. You can see the…

Luc van den Hove, the CEO of imec, gave the opening keynote at the imec Technology Forum in Brussels last week. There were really two themes to his presentation.

One theme was Gordon Moore and Moore's Law. imec had awarded Gordon Moore the Lifetime of...

At the Linley IoT conference recently, one of the presentations was by Steve Singer of Inside Secure. As many of the other presenters emphasized during the day, security is one of the biggest issues in IoT, above lack of standards, ease of user-setup...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Alex Passi explains the advantages provided by the new MIPI I3C interface. With I3C, mobile device sensors can transmit data faster, with lower power and simpler routing than with existing interfaces.

https://youtu.be/K8LjIEC3UEo

The 21^st European Test Symposium (IEEE EST) took place in Amsterdam (Netherlands) from May 23^rd-27^th. With all the ideas and challenges in designing applications and with new trends in the area of electronic-based circuits and system testing, it was good to focus on some of the other important topics of achieving system success and a future-proofed design. And Cadence had the SerDes experience to share.

The presentation…

The Cadence Academic Network is the proud sponsor of all student activities and scholarships at DAC this year. Please join us at one or all of the following events:

A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Program
Sunday, June 5, 7:30am to 9:00am in Room...

Virtuoso Video Diary is envisaged to be an online journal that will relay information about Virtuoso videos that are available in the Cadence Online Support Video Library. For IC6.1.7 and ICADV12.2, over 100 videos on a wide variety of new and exciting Virtuoso features have already been created. Virtuoso Video Diary brings you direct links to these videos and other related material, on a regular basis, in your mailbox…

As in previous years, a highlight of the Cadence booth at DAC is the theater, where customers and partners (plus the occasional Cadence person) present their experiences with Cadence tools and IP. Presentations take place every half hour (on the hour...

With highly effective DDR4 and LPDDR4 class memories, it’s not always easy to know what kind of memory will best fit the needs of your application? What is the optimal compromise between keeping costs in check and optimizing performance?

To answer that we have to take a step back and look at the history of the DDRs. In the PC memory area, we have the DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4. On the LPDDR front there are LPDDR2, LPDDR3…

This is the 150th blog post here at Breakfast Bytes since I arrived at Cadence in early October. Since you are reading this, however you got here, then you already know Breakfast Bytes is a blog on the Cadence website. I cover a wide range of topics affecting...

You have probably at least heard of 3D Xpoint. This is a memory technology jointly developed between Intel and Micron. I attended one of the keynotes at the Open Server Summit by Rob Peglar of Micron. He went for one of the less catchy titles of the day...

With the Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) 16.6-2015 release, you’ll have several new capabilities that enhance your productivity.

Read on for more details …

ADW Server Error Logging and Notification

The ADW Server can log the errors, warnings, and information messages and report them through e-mails. These messages enable the administrator to monitor the health of the server, and take the necessary corrective…

At CDNLive Silicon Valley, Professor Andrew Kahng of UCSD gave a presentation titled Toward New Synergies Between Academic Research and Commercial EDA. The paper won the best paper award for the academic track.

Andrew started off by pointing out that...