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System, PCB, & Package Design : Some Don't Like It Hot: Thermal Model Exchange

Sigrity

Engineers today are faced with complex as well rapid design changes that require multiple design tools to work in conjunction with others. Both the MCAD and ECAD eco-systems have addressed this with their own neutral file format such as SAT, IGES, I...
- 28 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Tools and Processors for Computer Vision...and the Summit

Paul McLellan

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Jeff Bier, the head of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and the organizer of the Embedded Vision Conference. He gave me a copy of a survey that they had run on tools and processors for ...
- 28 Mar 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - Doing More With Less—Software GPS and Tensilica Processors for the IoT

References4U

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett describes a theoretical IoT device for monitoring shipping containers and the ways that the system cost could be reduced by implementing functions such as GPS in software and running them on a Tensilica processor.

https://youtu.be/SO7HigVTQ-Y
- 27 Mar 2018
Verification: What’s Hot in Verification at this Year’s CDNLive? It’s Portable Stimulus Again!

Steve Brown

CDNLive is a user conference, and verification is one of the largest categories of content with multiple tracks covering multiple days. Portable stimulus is one of the hottest new areas in verification, and continues to be popular in all venues. At l...
- 27 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 2nd to 6th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/r6ctqTVCoH0 Coming from deep in space (camera Sean) Monday: SEMICON China: Big, Really Bit Tuesday: Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero Wednesday: How Low Can You Go? Thursday: Semiconductor Specialization Ve...
- 27 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: EDA: Not Like Household Products

Paul McLellan

I wrote recently about why EDA sales are not like semiconductor equipment sales, despite having a lot of the same customers, and the same Moore's Law process technology treadmill. But EDA isn't like a consumer product either. Why Isn’t...
- 27 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: In Other News, 100 People Were Killed by Cars Driven by People

Paul McLellan

You probably heard that last week, a woman was killed in Phoenix by a driverless car. In 2016, 37,461 people were killed on US roads. So if that day was typical (and it probably varies by weekday versus weekend, at least) then about 100 people would ...
- 26 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: EDA: Not Like Semiconductor Equipment

Paul McLellan

It was SEMICON China last week, and I've written a couple of posts about it this week. Talking about semiconductor manufacturing equipment a lot recently reminded me of a friend who used to work in the semiconductor equipment industry (and ...
- 23 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Ajit and the History of SEMI

Paul McLellan

At SEMICON China, there was a press briefing with Ajit Manocha, the CEO of SEMI, along with Lung Chu, who runs SEMI China, and thus also has responsibility for SEMICON China. This year was the 30th anniversary of SEMICON China. I still find that surp...
- 22 Mar 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 Now Available

Virtuoso Release Team

The IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 production releases are now available for download. To find out more, click here…
- 21 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 26th to 30th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/dYLZaBsYBbA Coming from the Cadence cafeteria (camera Sean) Monday:In Other News, 100 People Were Killed by Cars Driven by Humans Tuesday: EDA: Not Like Household Products Wednesday: Tools and Processors for Computer...
- 21 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: "Lick" Licklider, Unsung Hero of US Computer Science

Paul McLellan

During the war, there was a lot of computer technology developed in all of UK and US (and Germany, although that was mostly electromechanical and so was a sort of dead end). After the war, the US and UK took totally different approaches. In the UK, e...
- 21 Mar 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to the NVDIMM Standard

References4U

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Marc Greenberg discusses the benefits of moving non-volatile memory from the SSD to the DDR bus and possible new storage-class memories.

www.youtube.com/watch
- 20 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: SEMICON China: Is This China's Decade?

Paul McLellan

One of the presentations on the opening day of SEMICON China, here in Shanghai, was by Rick Wallace, who is the CEO of KLA-Tencor (KT). He started by pointing out that KT have been selling for the entire history of the industry, so he thought it woul...
- 20 Mar 2018
Verification: App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part I

XTeam

Welcome to a special multi-part edition of the App Note Spotlight, where we’ll be highlighting an interesting app note that you may have overlooked—Simulation Performance Coding Guidelines for SystemVerliog. This app note overviews all sorts of coding guidelines and helpful tips to help optimize your SystemVerilog code’s performance. These strategies aren’t specific to just the Xcelium Parallel Simulator—in…
- 19 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: CDNLive, the New Season

Paul McLellan

It's nearly April and so it is the start of the CDNLive season. This year there are seven conferences, starting with Silicon Valley. The dates are: Silicon Valley (in the Santa Clara Convention Center), April 10 - 11 Munich, Germany (in the...
- 19 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: SEMICON China: Me and 70,000 of My Closest Friends

Paul McLellan

If you want to know why I made the trek from California to Shanghai to attend SEMICON China, it is well summed up in the press release that SEMI put out on opening day: SEMICON China 2018 opens today at SNIEC in Shanghai with a record 70,000 visitor...
- 16 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Semiconductor Rankings: Thanks for the Memory

Paul McLellan

I wrote recently about how Samsung's extraordinary 50+% year-on-year growth took them to #1. I also cautioned that a lot seemed to be due to strong prices in memory, DRAM in particular. I was reminded of this when I came across an IC Insights rep...
- 15 Mar 2018
The India Circuit: Shopping in Reality: How VR and AR Are Changing The Way We Shop

Madhavi Rao

Like millions of Indians, I shop a lot online, whether for groceries, shoes or even electronics. I buy most of my clothes online, but here I have hit a snag, and that is in sizing. I seem to be in a constant cycle of ordering clothes online and retur...
- 14 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: China Bike Rental

Paul McLellan

In the last couple of years, one of the biggest changes in China has been the arrival of bike sharing everywhere. At one level, you can think of it as Uber for bicycles: there's a smartphone app, you get a bike, you use it, you get charged throug...
- 14 Mar 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Signal Browsing Gets Easier with Advanced Search Options

Ashu V

Imagine what would happen if we were living in the world with no search engines. Wouldn’t we find ourselves lost in the deep information ocean, struggling to find the relevant stuff? The situation would be chaotic and nothing short of a nightmare. Cutting-edge search technology has given us unprecedented access to information at the click of a button—something that our previous generations could only dream of. Web search…
- 14 Mar 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesdays - The 3 Methods of Memory Controller Port Arbitration

References4U

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jing Liu describes three methods of port arbitration in memory controller designs: round-robin, priority round-robin, and weighted round-robin.

https://youtu.be/CR6dQcoz868
- 13 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 19th to 23rd 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/2-ErrC9yy2k Coming from SEMICON China, Shanghai (camera Tracy Zhu) Monday: CDNLive Silicon Valley Preview Tuesday: SEMICON China II Wednesday: "Lick" Licklider, Unsung Hero of US Computer Science Thursday: ...
- 13 Mar 2018
Verification: Preparing Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for Ratification

Steve Brown

The Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group met at the DVCon 2018 to move the process forward towards ratification. While we can't predict exactly when it will be ratified, the goal is now more clearly in sight! Cadence booth was busy with a lo...
- 13 Mar 2018
Breakfast Bytes: The Great Firewall of China

Paul McLellan

This is a continuation of yesterday's post on Walled Gardens. Arguably the greatest walled garden of them all is China. It even has a wall! A great one. The Great Firewall of China China is not a democracy, of course, so the elite who contr...
- 13 Mar 2018

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