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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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On Tuesday, Cadence hosted a lunch focused on 7nm digital design and signoff. Jim Hogan was the moderator. The panel got to debate 7nm while everyone else got to eat lunch.

For more details on 7nm, seem my post TSMC @ N7 with Cadence. In particular,...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett explains five unique advantages of the Cadence IP solution. These advantages enable on-time delivery of high-quality IP and system expertise that enables our customers to create highly differentiated and market-leading SoCs.

https://youtu.be/rCkmvERdCRo

Professor Wei Shaojun of Tsinghua University presented on China's IC Industry: Today and Tomorrow. As you probably know, in 2014 China announced plans to promote the development of the IC industry in China. One big reason for this is that China imports...

Monday was Lip-Bu's turn for a chat with Ed Sperling. The same event last year was billed as a "fireside chat" but was postponed for 15 minutes when a spotlight really did catch fire. Taking no chances, this year it was re-branded as a one-on-one chat...

The opening keynote of DAC was by Joe Costello. Joe, of course, was the first CEO of Cadence (created when SDA was merged into ECAD) and held that position for over a decade. Over ten years ago, he gave a keynote at DAC and gave his rules for bringing...

Over a year ago when the new Virtuoso ADE product suite was released, we had our fingers crossed. Today, we feel immense pleasure to mention that the new Virtuoso ADE product suite is well-received by the ADE customers and has been getting appreciation across geographies. It's now evident that the newer products– Virtuoso ADE Explorer, Virtuoso  ADE Assembler, Virtuoso Variation Option, and Virtuoso ADE Veri…

Yesterday was Wednesday at DAC here in Austin. For reports on the last three days, see:

• Guide to Austin for Newbies, and DAC Sunday Kickoff
• DAC Monday 2017: Joe, Lip-Bu, China, Under 40s, Smurfs, and More
• DAC Tuesday 2017: Siemens, SiP, Simon & Lucio...

https://youtu.be/qE5sgFfGeIg

Coming from the 54th Design Automation Conference in Austin (camera Sean)

Monday: One on One With Lip-Bu Tan

Tuesday: The Chinese Semiconductor Industry

Wednesday: 7nm Lunch

Thursday: Silicon in Package (SiP)

Friday...

Yesterday was Tuesday at DAC here in Austin. For reports on the last couple of days see Guide to Austin for Newbies, and DAC Sunday Kickoff and DAC Monday 2017: Joe, Lip-Bu, China, Under 40s, Smurfs, and More.

It's Monday, the first real day of DAC after the kickoff on Sunday evening. See Guide to Austin for Newbies, and DAC Sunday Kickoff for more details of yesterday.

In his introduction, Mike "Mac" McNamara put up a slide with some notable...

Cadence returns to DAC 2017 this year, showcasing our full verification suite. Here are some of the things you can look forward to from us in the upcoming week.

Once again, Cadence has the Expert Bar on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The Expert Bar is where engineers can visit our booth and have conversations with our technical experts. Cadence will be running many sessions, and those topics are listed below.