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Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 9th to 13th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/xEgjpNWtC1I Coming from Santa Clara Convention Center Theater (camera Sean) Monday: 6 Ways to Get the Most out of CDNLive Tuesday: embargoed until CDNLive Wednesday: embargoed until Linley Processor Conference Thursda...
- 4 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: How Low Can You Go?

Paul McLellan

I slipped into an obscure bar in the no-man's-land between Santana Row and downtown San Jose. It was a weekday afternoon. There was only one other person in the bar. "I'm from imec," he said. "Ssh," I said. "Wall...
- 4 Apr 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - Interfaces—If You’re Not First, You’re Last

References4U

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett recounts two personal experiences which illustrate the surprising impact of SoC interfaces on customer selection criteria for electronic products and the importance for product developers to be first-to-market with new interfaces.

www.youtube.com/watch
- 3 Apr 2018
Verification: New AMBA 5 ACE/AXI Specification and Its Support in Cadence ACE/AXI VIP

DimitryP

As discussed in the previous installments of the blog, the recent update of the AMBA® 5 ACE/AXI specification introduced several performance improvement features which align the AMBA5 ACE/AXI protocol with AMBA 5 CHI (Coherent Hub Interface) specification. Among them is the new class of atomic transactions, discussed in-depth previously.

Another new transaction class includes the new cache stash transactions which…
- 3 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero

Paul McLellan

There are three major events in computers learning to play board games at a very high level: In 1997, Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov In 2017, AlphaGo defeated #1 world Go champion Ke Jie In 2017, AlphaZero defeated Stockf...
- 3 Apr 2018
Verification: NVMe Express 1.3: Addressing the Storage Needs of the Data Revolution from Enterprise to Client

Lana Chan

The amount of data we are generating and consuming has exploded in recent years. Social media, applications, multimedia streaming, 24-hour connectivity has us talking about Zettabytes of data in the data center that folks want to not only store, but analyze and access rapidly.

SSDs were great to address mechanical inefficiencies of HDD. However, the constraints of the SCSI protocol still meant that you can only address…
- 2 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: SEMICON China: Big, Really Big

Paul McLellan

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Dick Selwood because we arrived together at the press room. He told me it was his last embedded world, since he's retiring, so I wish him well. I just read his piece on the conference...
- 2 Apr 2018
Verification: List of TLM Analysis Ports: Where Is This Packet Coming From?

teamspecman

Let’s say that you got an invitation from the police station nearest your home to be there the next day at 14:00. Hmm…. What could it be about? You check the letter and envelope for more information, but it does not say which department sent it. Well, it makes a big difference if the invitation was from the “lost and found” department, which means you will probably get something back, or if it came from “investigations…
- 1 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Clayton Christensen and the Innovator's Dilemma

Paul McLellan

One of the most readable and influential business books of the last 20 years was Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma, which was originally published in 1997. I know that "readable" is not an adjective commonly applied...
- 30 Mar 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: What if I Want to Disable the Filtered Corners?

Arja H

You'll now be an expert at using the Corner Filters in Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso ADE Explorer, I'm sure. But so far, you could only enable the corners you found during filtering. Now, we can offer even more flexibility. You can now disable the corners you find using the filters, and also incrementally enable or disable the filtered corners.
- 29 Mar 2018
The India Circuit: A Long Way From The 80's: New Kids On The Technology Block

Madhavi Rao

I was cruising through Facebook today and saw a video posted by George Takei Presents about 11 things that younger generations will never understand - basically, things that existed in the 1980’s that today's kids wouldn't get, like the f...
- 29 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Hennessy and Patterson Receive the 2018 Turing Award

Paul McLellan

The 2018 Turing Award, informally the Nobel prize in Computer Science, has been awarded to Dave Patterson and John Hennessy (along wth a cool $1M). They invented the RISC, the Reduced Instruction Set Computer. John Hennessy with MIPS at Stanford...
- 29 Mar 2018
System, PCB, & Package Design : Some Don't Like It Hot: Thermal Model Exchange

Sigrity

Engineers today are faced with complex as well rapid design changes that require multiple design tools to work in conjunction with others. Both the MCAD and ECAD eco-systems have addressed this with their own neutral file format such as SAT, IGES, I...
- 28 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Tools and Processors for Computer Vision...and the Summit

Paul McLellan

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Jeff Bier, the head of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and the organizer of the Embedded Vision Conference. He gave me a copy of a survey that they had run on tools and processors for ...
- 28 Mar 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - Doing More With Less—Software GPS and Tensilica Processors for the IoT

References4U

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett describes a theoretical IoT device for monitoring shipping containers and the ways that the system cost could be reduced by implementing functions such as GPS in software and running them on a Tensilica processor.

https://youtu.be/SO7HigVTQ-Y
- 27 Mar 2018
Verification: What’s Hot in Verification at this Year’s CDNLive? It’s Portable Stimulus Again!

Steve Brown

CDNLive is a user conference, and verification is one of the largest categories of content with multiple tracks covering multiple days. Portable stimulus is one of the hottest new areas in verification, and continues to be popular in all venues. At l...
- 27 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 2nd to 6th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/r6ctqTVCoH0 Coming from deep in space (camera Sean) Monday: SEMICON China: Big, Really Bit Tuesday: Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero Wednesday: How Low Can You Go? Thursday: Semiconductor Specialization Ve...
- 27 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: EDA: Not Like Household Products

Paul McLellan

I wrote recently about why EDA sales are not like semiconductor equipment sales, despite having a lot of the same customers, and the same Moore's Law process technology treadmill. But EDA isn't like a consumer product either. Why Isn’t...
- 27 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: In Other News, 100 People Were Killed by Cars Driven by People

Paul McLellan

You probably heard that last week, a woman was killed in Phoenix by a driverless car. In 2016, 37,461 people were killed on US roads. So if that day was typical (and it probably varies by weekday versus weekend, at least) then about 100 people would ...
- 26 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: EDA: Not Like Semiconductor Equipment

Paul McLellan

It was SEMICON China last week, and I've written a couple of posts about it this week. Talking about semiconductor manufacturing equipment a lot recently reminded me of a friend who used to work in the semiconductor equipment industry (and ...
- 23 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Ajit and the History of SEMI

Paul McLellan

At SEMICON China, there was a press briefing with Ajit Manocha, the CEO of SEMI, along with Lung Chu, who runs SEMI China, and thus also has responsibility for SEMICON China. This year was the 30th anniversary of SEMICON China. I still find that surp...
- 22 Mar 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 Now Available

Virtuoso Release Team

The IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 production releases are now available for download. To find out more, click here…
- 21 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 26th to 30th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/dYLZaBsYBbA Coming from the Cadence cafeteria (camera Sean) Monday:In Other News, 100 People Were Killed by Cars Driven by Humans Tuesday: EDA: Not Like Household Products Wednesday: Tools and Processors for Computer...
- 21 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: "Lick" Licklider, Unsung Hero of US Computer Science

Paul McLellan

During the war, there was a lot of computer technology developed in all of UK and US (and Germany, although that was mostly electromechanical and so was a sort of dead end). After the war, the US and UK took totally different approaches. In the UK, e...
- 21 Mar 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to the NVDIMM Standard

References4U

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Marc Greenberg discusses the benefits of moving non-volatile memory from the SSD to the DDR bus and possible new storage-class memories.

www.youtube.com/watch
- 20 Mar 2018

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