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Breakfast Bytes: CDNLive Keynotes: What will Drive the Future?

Paul McLellan

The new season of CDNLive kicked off earlier this week with CDNLive Silicon Valley in the Santa Clara Convention Center. The giveaway this year for visiting enough of our partners in the expo was the cute bear on the left. For those of you not from t...
- 13 Apr 2018
The India Circuit: What's Exciting About Being An Application Engineer? Watch This Video!

Madhavi Rao

Many of you may not be familiar with what a Field Application Engineer (most often shortened to FAE or AE) does. AEs at Cadence are critical in making our customers successful by helping them with not just tool adoption, but with methodology developm...
- 12 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Visa, Priceless

Paul McLellan

Well, okay. It's actually Mastercard that runs those "priceless" ads, not Visa. But this post is about visas, mostly the H-1B visa, since we don't have too many H-2A temporary agricultural workers in tech. There are lots of other visa types too, such...
- 12 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: A New Era Needs a New Architecture: The Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP

Paul McLellan

There is a trend for increasing sophistication in vision and in artificial intelligence (AI). There are many drivers of this, but two of the most important are the advanced capabilities of high-end smartphones and the demands of ADAS and autonomous d...
- 11 Apr 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - New Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP for Vision and AI Processing

References4U

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pulin Desai, discusses the features and benefits of the fifth-generation Tensilica Vision Q6 DSP used for vision and AI processing.

www.youtube.com/watch
- 11 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 16th to 20th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/R3fdD-xR9So Coming from CDNLive Silicon Valley (camera Sean) Monday: ESD Aliiance CEO Panel I Tuesday:ESD Aliiance CEO Panel II Wednesday: Algorithmic Modeling Interface Thursday: AMI and DDR5 Friday:&...
- 10 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Virtuoso 2018, a Fine Vintage

Paul McLellan

In Post World-War II Blues, Al Stewart (who happened to go to the same high school as I did) sang: 1959 was a very strange timeA bad year for Labour and a good year for wine Well, it's too early to say whether 2018 will be a good year for wine...
- 10 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: 6 Ways to Get the Most Out of CDNLive

Paul McLellan

It's CDNLive! Well, not today, Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. So I have six things you can do to get the most out of CDNLive and go home with a cute cuddly bear. And, if you are lucky, an Apple Watch or a MacBoo...
- 9 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL

Paul McLellan

50 years ago today was the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The movie came about when Stanley Kubrick wrote to Arthur C. Clarke about a movie idea. Clarke was enthusiastic: The ‘really good’ science-fiction movie is a great many years o...
- 6 Apr 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso Video Diary: Reusing Variables through CSV Export and Import

Rashmi G

Do you have some specific variables in a test and wonder if you could have a way to reuse them globally for all tests or locally in a particular test? You will be glad to know that Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso ADE Explorer offer you a simple and time-saving solution to perform this task. You can now export variables in a CSV file and then use the same file to import them as global or local variables in any session…
- 5 Apr 2018
Verification: Xcelium's New Save and Restart Saves You Time

XTeam

You may have heard about the overhaul to the old save/restart mechanism that was in Incisive—but are you aware of what the new Xcelium Simulator version can do?

While the old version is still supported, there’s a lot of benefits to shifting to the new one. Now called “checkpointing,” this new system uses a process-based implementation and is overviewed in the app note, Using Save/Restart Checkpointing…
- 5 Apr 2018
Learning and Support: The Evolution of Cadence Help - I

Vani V

Change, being a fact of life, is inevitable even for software systems. We have come a long way seeing some evolutionary and revolutionary changes in the way our products have developed over years. Not just in the functional aspect but also in the loo...
- 5 Apr 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Semiconductor Specialization Versus Valuation

Paul McLellan

At SEMICON China, Wally Rhines gave one of the keynotes on the opening day. It was an update on his presentation Merger Mania that I covered a couple of years ago when Wally gave the keynote at that year's GSA Silicon Summit. Wally Rhines ha...
- 5 Apr 2018
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

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