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Breakfast Bytes: Black Hat: Inside the Cyber Safety Review Board

Paul McLellan

Earlier this week, Black Hat ran a webinar titled Inside the Cyber Safety Review Board: A Fireside Chat with Jeff Moss, Chair Rob Silvers, and Deputy Chair Heather Adkins. Jeff Moss, the founder of Black Hat interviewed Rob Silvers, who is the chair ...
- 4 Mar 2022
Verification: Mind reading? Almost. Specman New Typo Error Prediction Feature

teamspecman

Presenting Specman syntax error messages enhancement - provide suggestions to fix typos. Starting Specman 21.09, the next time you get a compilation error of the kind “no such variable xxx”, or “yyy does not have such a field”, Specman will try to include a suggestion to an existing name.
- 4 Mar 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Developing an AI Inference Chip with Cadence Flow in Azure Cloud

Paul McLellan

At last year's CadenceLIVE Americas, there was a presentation by d-Matrix about designing its AI inference chip in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. You've probably not heard of d-Matrix (in fact when I saw the name, I mixed them up with dSpace, a German co...
- 3 Mar 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Create Greener Commutes with Computational Fluid Dynamics!

Veena Parthan

Computational Fluid Dynamics has a lot to offer in terms of green mobility design and analysis.
- 2 Mar 2022
Breakfast Bytes: How the Electricity Grid Works

Paul McLellan

I recently wrote about Moss Landing, the biggest grid battery storage operation in the world. I discovered from talking to a friend recently that most people have no idea what constraints the electricity grid operates under. I think most politicians ...
- 2 Mar 2022
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Training Insights: All You Wanted to Know About User Preferences in Allegro PCB Editor

Supriya Srivastava

Wouldn’t it be convenient if you could customize how to view and access your PCB design environment? You might want to lock the toolbars to prevent the accidental movement of objects or set up design libraries when creating designs. Personalizing the...
- 1 Mar 2022
Digital Design: Voltus Voice: Hierarchical Power Integrity Analysis—Why xPGV Modeling Is the Designer's Best Choice for Mega-Sized Chips

sharvey

In the final part of our "Hierarchical Power Integrity Analysis" blog series, we explore how to use the reduced xPGV models at the top level to improve chip design productivity.
- 1 Mar 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Raspberry Pi Is Ten Years Old

Paul McLellan

I'm sure you know what Raspberry Pi is. It was actually launched on February 29, 2012. Well, 2022 is not a leap year so we don't have a February 29 this year, so March 1 will have to do. The whole story of Raspberry Pi is pretty interesting. ...
- 1 Mar 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: This Week in CFD - Double Issue

John Chawner

Instead of one week's worth of CFD news you get two today, mostly because sharing This Week in CFD from 18 February slipped through the cracks. My mistake is your gain on this Monday morning. What's in store? From the 18 Feb 2022 edition of T...
- 28 Feb 2022
Analog/Custom Design: Spectre Tech Tips: Moving to Spectre 21.1

Stefan Wuensche

We deliver one major Spectre^® circuit simulator release per calendar year. The base version of Spectre 20.1 was released in September 2020 and that of Spectre 21.1 in August 2021. For these two major releases, hotfix ISR releases are delivered in every 6 weeks. The latest hotfix releases in the two release streams are Spectre 20.1 ISR14 and Spectre 21.1 ISR4, both published in January 2022.

The life of one Spectre release…
- 28 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Benedict Evans 2022, part 2

Paul McLellan

Every year at the start of the year, Benedict Evans produces a big presentation on trends in technology, internet, mobile, and so on. He used to live in the US and did this for Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z). But he has since returned to Britain (he's...
- 28 Feb 2022
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Virtuoso RF Compliance Audit Smoothens Die Export

kgjudd

The audit functionality is a checker utility that reports all errors or warnings for an export die function on an IC layout before actually exporting a die.
- 28 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Sunday Brunch Video for 27th February 2022

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/_n4FOBDt_tY Made at Moss Landing (camera Carey) Monday: Presidents' Day Tuesday: DVCon 2022 Preview Wednesday: Moss Landing Thursday: Benedict Evans on Tech 2022 Friday: February 2022 Update Featured Post: SoCs Verification ...
- 27 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: February 2022 Update

Paul McLellan

I can't believe that it is already the last Friday in February and so time for my monthly update post where I collect mini-posts that don't justify a whole post of their own. Global Semiconductor Sales, Units Shipped Reach All-Time Highs in 2...
- 25 Feb 2022
RF /マイクロ波設計: μWaveRiders:Cadence AWR Design Environment プロジェクト管理のヒントとコツ

RF Design Japan

　Team RF "μWaveRiders" ブログシリーズはCadence AWR RF製品のためのショーケースです。月ごとの話題はCadence AWR Design Environmentのリリースのハイライト, 機能ビデオ, Cadenceの教育関係ネットワークのニュース,ソフトウェアのヒント, トリック, カスタマイズ, 機能のスポットライトの中で変わります。 AWRソフトウェアのヒントとコツ: AWR Design Environmen...
- 24 Feb 2022
RF Engineering: μWaveRiders: Cadence AWR Design Environment Project Management Tips and Tricks

TeamAWR

The fifth in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog highlights project management options in the AWR Design Environment workspace to speed design creation and optimize use of AWR software.
- 24 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Benedict Evans on Tech 2022

Paul McLellan

Every year at the start of the year, Benedict Evans produces a big presentation on trends in technology, internet, mobile, and so on. He used to live in the US and did this for Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z), but he has since returned to Britain (he's Eng...
- 24 Feb 2022
System, PCB, & Package Design : Sigrity and Systems Analysis 2022.1 Release Now Available

SigrityReleaseTeam

The Sigrity and Systems Analysis 2022.1 production release is now available for download at Cadence Downloads.
- 24 Feb 2022
Verification: Boost your CXL Verification From IP to System-Level

Vinod Khera

Knowingly or unknowingly, we are consuming huge volumes of data from getting up early with Google/Siri, doing day-to-day work, using maps while driving till the time we call it a day and retiring in bed while watching Netflix. We expect all these to...
- 24 Feb 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Don't Let Vortex Ropes Tie Up Your Hydraulic Turbine

Veena Parthan

Better manage your computational fluid dynamics challenges by learning how to simulate vortex ropes in hydraulic turbine with CFD simulations and flow simulations.
- 23 Feb 2022
Academic Network: Cadence Awards Digital Badges to 54 Students During the 58th Annual Design Automation Conference

Mallory Clemons

As part of the DAC Young Fellows Program at the annual Design Automation Conference, Cadence held a virtual training on High-Level Synthesis for students who earned digital badges upon completion. The Young Fellows Program gave students a variety of ...
- 23 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Moss Landing

Paul McLellan

Everybody knows that the problem with sustainable energy is that it is intermittent. For wind, the wind doesn't always blow. Solar can suffer from clouds, but most obviously the sun doesn't shine at night. Other forms of sustainable energy, such as g...
- 23 Feb 2022
Life at Cadence: De-Risking and Accelerating OS Boot for Arm SystemReady SoCs: Morello Case Study

Vinod Khera

Cadence collaborated with Arm to enable pre-silicon SoC SystemReady compliance testing using Perspec and Palladium. With this system you can boot a generic off-the-shelf operating system (OS) on any SoC is a significant milestone and requires the SoC to meet a set of minimum hardware and firmware standards. Otherwise, long debug time, software workarounds/customization would lead to delays in the delivery of products…
- 22 Feb 2022
Verification: Employee Spotlight – Highlighting Our Colleagues in SVG!

Melisa

Cadence’s SVG team would like to feature two team members who are making a difference in technology, Tracy Fox. Sr. Product Engineer for DisplayPort, and Kevin Beauford, Sr. Principal Product Validation Engineer. Read below to hear what Black H...
- 22 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: DVCon 2022 Preview

Paul McLellan

DVCon 2022 is coming up soon from February 28th to March 3rd. It is entirely virtual. In my preview post last year I said: The current plan for next year is to be face-to-face at the DoubleTree Hotel in the first week of March. But Omicron ha...
- 22 Feb 2022

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