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The Internet of Things (IoT) could be a big number...20 billion things... 50 billion things... or Arm's favorite number all week at TechCon, a trillion things. Or it could be a lot closer to zero if people don't trust the things in the first place....

The biggest weakness in security are the people. It is almost never the encryption algorithms themselves, or anything technical like that. Last year, Science Daily reported that many people will apparently give out their passwords for chocolate:

If you have had a chance to work with languages like Java or C#, you might have come across Annotations. Since the Specman 17.10 version, annotations have become part of the e language! (See Java annotation and Basic Introduction to Data Annotation in .Net Framework.)

What are annotations? Annotations are a form of metadata that provides information about an entity in your code. However, they have no direct effect on…

One of the highlights at CDNLive India 2017 that was held in September was the launch of the new memory characterization solution from Cadence called the Legato Memory Solution.

I had a chance to speak to Dr. Vinod Kariat, Corporate VP of R&D at Cadence...

Simon Segars opened the second day of Arm TechCon (or for exhibitors who didn't notice the first day since they were setting up, the first day). Simon, of course, is the CEO of Arm, although Arm is no longer a public company since Japan's  SoftBank...

https://youtu.be/Ar6PcH48DNo

Coming from David Intercontinental Tel Aviv (camera Natalie)

Monday: CDNLive Israel

Tuesday: Jasper User Group

Wednesday: IEDM Preview

Thursday: Arm TechCon Foundry Afternoon

Friday: CASPA: AI and Semiconductor

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In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, John MacLaren explains the steps required for Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) in automotive designs and the specific practices incorporated for Cadence DDR IP.

https://youtu.be/ef-IuDKXf0E

Today is the 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia. But wait, isn't it November? Indeed it is, but back in 1917, Russia still had not switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. Most European countries had done so a long time before...

I like to ask questions, because you learn a lot that way. In fact, I did a survey earlier this year and learned that high-level synthesis users’ experiences are exceeding the non-users’ expectations, and that HLS is being used for a wider variety of design types than even I knew. Recently I asked one of my favorite questions, and got an answer I truly didn’t expect.

My favorite question to ask new HLS…

Why is image processing so important? To a first order approximation, all data is vision and video. Of course, things like GPS systems generate data too, but in terms of data volume the amount of data is trivial and the complexity of its processing is...

In days of future past, we looked at DC mismatch analysis and compared it to Monte Carlo analysis for analyzing the effect of device mismatch on the offset voltage of a differential amplifier. We found that DC mismatch does provide good estimates of the effect of mismatch with the limitation that the offset voltage has a Gaussian distribution. Since DC mismatch analysis only needed a single simulation to generate an estimate…

https://youtu.be/P3O79m4r-PM

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Coming from the Cadence building 10 lobby (camera Sean)

Monday: Embargoed release

Tuesday: October Revolution

Wednesday: Simon Segars: It's the Security Stupid

Thursday: Social Engineering

Friday: Arm's Security...

Yes, it's true, the Cadence Academic Network is having its tenth anniversary. The program is run by Patrick Haspel, who is now based in San Jose. However, he is from Mannheim in Germany, and when it started, the academic network was purely a European...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Anne Hughes explains the considerations for designs targeted at automotive applications and the impact of functional safety requirements on that process.

https://youtu.be/wLMfGZk0u1I

This year's recipient of the Kaufman Award is Rob Rutenbar. He has a big connection to Cadence, since he was the founder of Neolinear, which we acquired in 2004. But there is a backstory of how Rob ended up in analog IC design in the first place. And...

https://youtu.be/2HhOBOftlv4

Coming from the roof of Cadence building 10 (camera Sean)

CDNLive Taiwan Automotive Panel

The Rise of the China IC Industry

Linley Gwennap on the Microprocessor Market

AMD's Early Experience with Portable Stimulus...

On today’s SOC designs, the memory control logics and memory arrays take up a lot of real estate in terms of area and as a part of the larger system since it mostly determines the performance of the application. Regardless of the processors and the interconnect, the memory system provides the instructions and operands and the application cannot be executed any faster than the memory system can handle. Due to this…

On October 24, Cadence and Arm announced early access to the Xcelium Parallel Logic Simulation on Arm-based servers. It was demonstrated running on Cavium ThunderX2 and Qualcomm Centriq servers at the Arm Techcon event on October 25 and 26.  This represents a new development in low power, yet high performance simulation solutions for the EDA industry.

Ensuring that designs function correctly is a huge challenge for the…

It's going to be academic week here on Breakfast Bytes. There is an anniversary coming up, the Kaufman award was announced recently, the Cadence Academic Network is having a birthday, and then there is the book that changed everything. So check in each...

At the latest meeting of the Decoding Formal Club, organized by Oski and sponsored by Cadence, the agenda promised three things:

• Lessons Learnt from a Deployment of Sign-Off Formal on a High-Performance Arm CPU, by Vikram Khosa, formal verification...