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Verification: Adding a Patch Just in Time! — Or Can You Really Allow Yourself to Waste So Much Time?

teamspecman

One animation video - Patch Like The Wind - is worth a thousand words :)

If you don’t use Specman or don’t use Specman correctly, you spend most of your time waiting for compilation to finish.

One of the most frustrating (and common…) scenarios is when you know more or less what the fix should be (such as, “wait additional cycle before sending” or “the variable should be int and not uint”) and the fix can…
- 30 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Google's Titan: How They Stop You Slipping a Bogus Server into Their Datacenter

Paul McLellan

At the recent HOT CHIPS conference, Scott Johnson of Google talked about some challenges that Google has. There have been stories about hackers infiltrating malware into the supply chain. Given the stories about the NSA intercepting Cisco router ship...
- 30 Aug 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: New Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis RAK for IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1

Arja H

We've updated the Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) for IC6.1.8 and ICADVM18.1. This contains all the basics from the previous RAK but now includes information about the features added since then..
- 30 Aug 2018
Academic Network: Great Academic Networking in Taiwan - 2018 VLSI Design/CAD Symposium

Tracy Zhu

Cadence Academic Network and Taiwan Marketing co-supported the annual VLSI Design/CAD Symposium in Taiwan for the 3rd consecutive year. This year, around 800 local industry experts, academic experts, and students attended the symposium held in Tainan...
- 29 Aug 2018
The India Circuit: Don't Miss These 6 Things At CDNLive India 2018!

Madhavi Rao

1. The Cadence keynotes: Lip-Bu Tan on Day 1 and Babu Mandava on Day 2 Apart from being part of the executive management team at Cadence, both Lip-Bu and Babu are veterans of the industry. They have a wealth of experience and insight, and they will ...
- 29 Aug 2018
定制IC芯片设计 : Virtuoso: 新序曲-DRD推出新界面

Pallabi R

最近几个月如果您关注Cadence 新闻的话，肯定听说了DRD重新推出的消息。让我们近距离来了解一下全新的DRD吧！
- 29 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Carbon Nanotube Memory: Too Good to Be True?

Paul McLellan

One of the sessions at HOT CHIPS is on new technologies, and one of those presentations was by Bill Gervasi of Nantero on Architecture for Carbon Nanotube Based Memory (NRAM). The technology sounds too good to be true, as someone in the au...
- 29 Aug 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Simplest Neural Network Explanation Ever - Part 2

References4U

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Tom Hackett continues his explanation of neural network basics using an Excel spreadsheet as a learning vehicle. You can download the spreadsheet here: https://ip.cadence.com/uploads/1213/neural-network-calculator-xlxs-zip

https://youtu.be/ow1ZuOPD72I
- 28 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 3rd to 7th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/ipUI2OaAWX4\ Coming from the old Ambit Design Systems office on Augustine Drive (camera Bill Deegan) Monday: Labor Day Off-Topic: Almost Everyone Has More Than the Average Number of Legs Tuesday: Ambit Design Systems Wednes...
- 28 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: ImageNet: The Benchmark that Changed Everything

Paul McLellan

I like to date technical transitions from specific events, even though realistically they take place over an extended period. For example, I think the modern era of IC design and EDA started with the publication of "Mead & Conway" which...
- 28 Aug 2018
Verification: Evolution of DisplayPort

Steve Wang

In 2006, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) designed a new display interface to compete with HDMI: the DisplayPort. Since then DisplayPort has become more and more popular in the computer world. Let’s take a look at the evolutio...
- 27 Aug 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso: The Next Overture: Prelude to Cadence Virtuoso "Symphony No. 18.1"

Rishu Misri Jaggi

Cadence Virtuoso is soon presenting a new symphony..."Symphony No. 18.1". Stay tuned in...
- 27 Aug 2018
Verification: Tales From DAC: Netspeed and the Cadence Interconnect Workbench Pair Up

XTeam

Services like facial detection, efficient cloud server workload management, artificial intelligence, and image enhancement are all the rage these days; but creating a design to accommodate these needs can be incredibly taxing on your engineering resources. Luckily, Netspeed Systems is here to help.

The devices being designed nowadays are more complicated than ever, and the design requirements are more complex, too. Designers…
- 27 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Sanjay Goes to Europe via Texas

Paul McLellan

While I was in Germany recently, I sat down with the head of Cadence EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, and Africa), Sanjay Lall. Back when we were both a lot younger, we both worked at VLSI Technology. I was a software development engineer, he was an a...
- 27 Aug 2018
System, PCB, & Package Design : EE Thermal 101 – Thermal basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 4 of 4)

Sigrity

In part 3 of this series, we used the concept of thermal resistors to develop a thermal equivalent network of a system and determined its equivalent junction to ambient thermal resistance. With this approach, we were able to link thermal resis...
- 24 Aug 2018
PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析: CDNLive日本：第四次工业革命与三维世界

SDA China

7月20日在CDNLive日本站，Cadence公司资深副总裁、兼定制IC芯片和 PCB事业部总经理Tom Beckley发表了主题演讲“实现第四次工业革命（工业4.0）”。同时，他宣布了Sigrity 2018的最新版本正式发布，该版本是Sigrity电源和信号完整性分析工具的最新版本，融合了大量的机械设计和rigid-flex支持功能，帮助用户解决日益复杂的多板系统问题。其后，Brad Griffin(Cadence Product Management Grou...
- 24 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Crossing the Chasm: Hogan Interviews Amit Gupta

Paul McLellan

The ESD Alliance will host another of its startup evenings with Jim Hogan, entitled Crossing the Chasm: Building a Startup to a Successful Exit. It is actually the evening in the middle of EDPS, the Electronic Design Process Symposium, as a sort of d...
- 24 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 27th to 31st 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/hxqDm1EAS7M\ Coming from the flagpoles in front of building 5 (camera Sean) Monday: PCAST: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Tuesday: DARPA's Electronics Resurgence Initiative Wednesday: ER...
- 23 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Preview of Electronic Design Process Symposium 2018

Paul McLellan

It is nearly EDPS time again when the dolphin logo comes out, somewhat incongruously now that EDPS is held in Milpitas, not Monterey. EDPS is the Electronic Design Process Symposium. It is a relatively small conference, but it always seems to be cove...
- 23 Aug 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Simplest Neural Network Explanation Ever - Part 1

References4U

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Tom Hackett explains neural network basics using an Excel spreadsheet as a learning vehicle. You can download the spreadsheet here: https://ip.cadence.com/uploads/1213/neural-network-calculator-xlxs-zip

https://youtu.be/YAaC94Ke2Ls
- 22 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Jobs: Fortran Programmer

Paul McLellan

Finally, the jobs theme gets technical. I had various programming jobs before I moved to the US to be a software engineer at VLSI Technology: Cambridge University Engineering Department, between high school and university. Pye-Unicam in Cambridge d...
- 22 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Jobs: Printer, Baker, Chocolatier, Caver

Paul McLellan

Yesterday I covered my first job, as a farm-hand. Today I'll cover some other jobs that I've had that taught me a lot about different aspects of life. I do think everyone benefits from working in jobs that are outside the professional bu...
- 21 Aug 2018
Academic Network: CDNLive Taiwan – Cadence User Conference 2018

Tracy Zhu

Date: August 14, 2018 Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan Agenda The Cadence User Conference, CDNLive Taiwan, on August 14, 2018, was a popular and successful event with over 1000 attendees. In addition, the Academic Network had their first ever Academic Track...
- 20 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Jobs: Farmer

Paul McLellan

Last summer, I took Fridays to write about technology museums. I planned to do a series on Fridays this summer on the odd jobs that I have done in my life before I started what you might consider my real career. But then Cadence Cloud took precedence...
- 20 Aug 2018
Verification: Is Ethernet Ready for the Automotive Market?

Thierry Berdah

Consumer demand for advanced driver assistance and infotainment features are on the rise, opening up a new market for advanced Automotive systems. Automotive Ethernet allows to support more complex computing needs with the use of an Ethernet-based network for connections between in-vehicle electronic systems.

The number of vehicles with automotive Ethernet began picking up over the last years, at which time BMW, Jaguar…
- 19 Aug 2018

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