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  • Academic Network: ISPD18 Contest and Cadence Academic Network Cloud Solutions

    Zaidan
    Zaidan
    ISPD is the International Symposium on Physical Design. The ISPD contest is a well-known competition in EDA field, where the main idea is to have EDA companies sharing the industrial problems they are facing to the academic community to drive practic...
    • 23 Apr 2018
  • Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: What's New in Run plan – Part I

    Yagya Mishra
    Yagya Mishra
    The Run Plan assistant in Virtuoso ADE Assembler has proved to be one of the most popular features. It provides the capability to create multiple variations of the setup within a single session, each of these runs has their own setup details that override the settings in the active setup. Simulations can be run for all the runs defined in the run plan with a single click. If there are no dependencies, the results are…
    • 23 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: TSMC Technology Symposium Preview: Note New Location!

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    Before I go any further, after years and years of being at the San Jose Convention Center, this year's TSMC Technology Symposium has moved. It will be in the Santa Clara Convention Center. And, while on that topic, Arm TechCon later this year is ...
    • 23 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 23rd to 27th 2018

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    https://youtu.be/h5Hs6zxcALc Coming from RSA Conference, Moscone West, San Francisco (camera Jessamine McLellan) Monday: TSMC Technology Symposium Preview Tuesday: Linley: Training in the Datacenter, Inference at the Edge Wednesday: R...
    • 20 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: CDNLive EMEA Preview

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    The thing everyone always wants to know about CDNLive EMEA, since it is held in Munich in May, is "Will Bayern München be staying at the hotel?" during the conference, like they did a couple of years ago. The good news is that Munich is still i...
    • 20 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: AMI and IBIS: Who Put the Eye in AMI?

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    Have you heard of IBIS and AMI? If you are French, you know that one is a chain of cheap hotels, and the other is the word for a friend. But if you have anything to do with SerDes design, then you know that they are the way you model the SerDes ...
    • 19 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: CEO Outlook: Cloudy with No Chance of Meatballs

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    Recently, the ESD Alliance organized the annual CEO Outlook panel with Simon, Wally, Grant and Dean. I covered the opening statements yesterday, but I figured it would get too long to put everything into a single post, so here's the rest of the eveni...
    • 18 Apr 2018
  • Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - Breaking Down ADAS Sensor Fusion Platforms and Sensor Concepts

    References4U
    References4U

    In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three-part series, Robert Schweiger talks about ADAS sensor fusion platforms and sensors. The pros and cons of sensors sending raw data to a powerful sensor fusion platform versus a hybrid sensor fusion system where sensors pre-process the data before sending to the sensor fusion platform. It’s all about compute performance, sensor data rates, power consumption…

    • 17 Apr 2018
  • System, PCB, & Package Design : Tech Blog Series: Know How Your Circuit Works! — Understand It Better and Build Powerful Designs

    Ronak Shah
    Ronak Shah

    Using Sensitivity Analysis of PSpice

    I was thinking of writing a series of blogs showcasing what all ammunition's a circuit designer may need to deal with any complex circuits today. So, here's the first one. 

    When in college, books tell you everything about your circuit. You already know which components are critical in your designs. But, what about when you enter an industry? You have completely new designs that…

    • 17 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: The ESD Alliance CEO Panel: Forecast Very Cloudy

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    Recently, the ESD Alliance organized the annual CEO Outlook panel with Simon, Wally, Grant, and Dean, moderated by Ed. OK, maybe first names aren't quite enough in EDA (is there another Wally in EDA?) but they are: Simon Segars, CEO of Arm (which i...
    • 17 Apr 2018
  • Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Working with Tests in Virtuoso ADE Assembler Made Smarter

    NamrataM
    NamrataM
    Don’t we love the new features that make our favorite products behave even more cool? At times, small, but smart UX enhancements give us a better experience. Be it a simpler way to change the phone settings, a new banking menu to add multiple beneficiaries in one go, or a location sensor added to a cab-booking or food-ordering app, all of us welcome such simple design innovations that make our tasks easier and quicker…
    • 16 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: The ESD Alliance Becomes Part of SEMI

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    Friday of last week I get home, sit down, and feel that the weekend has begun. Almost immediately, I get an email from Nanette Collins, who does press relations for a lot of companies, so I figure it's probably some announcement. It is, indeed, ...
    • 16 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: CDNLive Keynotes: What will Drive the Future?

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    The new season of CDNLive kicked off earlier this week with CDNLive Silicon Valley in the Santa Clara Convention Center. The giveaway this year for visiting enough of our partners in the expo was the cute bear on the left. For those of you not from t...
    • 13 Apr 2018
  • The India Circuit: What's Exciting About Being An Application Engineer? Watch This Video!

    Madhavi Rao
    Madhavi Rao
    Many of you may not be familiar with what a Field Application Engineer (most often shortened to FAE or AE) does. AEs at Cadence are critical in making our customers successful by helping them with not just tool adoption, but with methodology developm...
    • 12 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: Visa, Priceless

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    Well, okay. It's actually Mastercard that runs those "priceless" ads, not Visa. But this post is about visas, mostly the H-1B visa, since we don't have too many H-2A temporary agricultural workers in tech. There are lots of other visa types too, such...
    • 12 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: A New Era Needs a New Architecture: The Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    There is a trend for increasing sophistication in vision and in artificial intelligence (AI). There are many drivers of this, but two of the most important are the advanced capabilities of high-end smartphones and the demands of ADAS and autonomous d...
    • 11 Apr 2018
  • Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - New Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP for Vision and AI Processing

    References4U
    References4U

    In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pulin Desai, discusses the features and benefits of the fifth-generation Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP used for vision and AI processing.

    www.youtube.com/watch

    • 11 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 16th to 20th 2018

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    https://youtu.be/R3fdD-xR9So Coming from CDNLive Silicon Valley (camera Sean) Monday: ESD Aliiance CEO Panel I Tuesday:ESD Aliiance CEO Panel II Wednesday: Algorithmic Modeling Interface  Thursday: AMI and DDR5 Friday:&...
    • 10 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: Virtuoso 2018, a Fine Vintage

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    In Post World-War II Blues, Al Stewart (who happened to go to the same high school as I did) sang: 1959 was a very strange timeA bad year for Labour and a good year for wine Well, it's too early to say whether 2018 will be a good year for wine...
    • 10 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: 6 Ways to Get the Most Out of CDNLive

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    It's CDNLive! Well, not today, Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. So I have six things you can do to get the most out of CDNLive and go home with a cute cuddly bear. And, if you are lucky, an Apple Watch or a MacBoo...
    • 9 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    50 years ago today was the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The movie came about when Stanley Kubrick wrote to Arthur C. Clarke about a movie idea. Clarke was enthusiastic: The ‘really good’ science-fiction movie is a great many years o...
    • 6 Apr 2018
  • Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso Video Diary: Reusing Variables through CSV Export and Import

    Rashmi G
    Rashmi G
    Do you have some specific variables in a test and wonder if you could have a way to reuse them globally for all tests or locally in a particular test? You will be glad to know that Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso ADE Explorer offer you a simple and time-saving solution to perform this task. You can now export variables in a CSV file and then use the same file to import them as global or local variables in any session…
    • 5 Apr 2018
  • Verification: Xcelium's New Save and Restart Saves You Time

    XTeam
    XTeam

    You may have heard about the overhaul to the old save/restart mechanism that was in Incisive—but are you aware of what the new Xcelium Simulator version can do?

    While the old version is still supported, there’s a lot of benefits to shifting to the new one. Now called “checkpointing,” this new system uses a process-based implementation and is overviewed in the app note, Using Save/Restart Checkpointing…

    • 5 Apr 2018
  • Learning and Support: The Evolution of Cadence Help - I

    Vani V
    Vani V
    Change, being a fact of life, is inevitable even for software systems. We have come a long way seeing some evolutionary and revolutionary changes in the way our products have developed over years. Not just in the functional aspect but also in the loo...
    • 5 Apr 2018
  • Breakfast Bytes: Semiconductor Specialization Versus Valuation

    Paul McLellan
    Paul McLellan
    At SEMICON China, Wally Rhines gave one of the keynotes on the opening day. It was an update on his presentation Merger Mania that I covered a couple of years ago when Wally gave the keynote at that year's GSA Silicon Summit. Wally Rhines ha...
    • 5 Apr 2018
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