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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
Breakfast Bytes: The Brief but Spectacular History of Shockley Labs

Paul McLellan

If you read my post Who Put the Silicon in Silicon Valley? then you know my conclusion: Let's go with Shockley. He invented the transistor, came here, hired a bunch of young PhDs, and sent them out (by accident, not design) to create the companies, ...
- 17 Aug 2018
Verification: Integration and Verification of PCIe Gen4 Root Complex IP into an Arm-Based Server SoC Application

Steve Brown

Learn about the challenges and solutions for integrating and verification PCIe(r) Gen4 into an Arm-Based Server SoC. Listen to this relatively short webinar by Arm and Cadence, as they describe the collaboration and results, including methodology and...
- 16 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: SEMICON 5nm: 7nm Is Just a Dress-Rehearsal

Paul McLellan

Usually I don't go to the last day of SEMICON West since not much happens that day. But they have got smart, and two of the most interesting sessions took place in TechXPOT (I think you pronounce that Techspot) on Thursday. In the after...
- 16 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 20th to 24th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/6a0znbVfFJk\ Coming from the Cadence parking lot (camera Sean) Monday: Jobs: Farmer, Baker Tuesday: Jobs: Printer, Chocolate Maker Wednesday: Jobs: Programmer, Caver Thursday: Jobs: Some Lessons Learned Friday: Jo...
- 15 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: CDNDrive Automotive Solutions: the Rear Wheels

Paul McLellan

Yesterday was the first of two posts about Cadence Automotive Solutions. Today we go down into the details a bit more. However, there are so many details that this will be more of a map of the landscape so you get an idea of the breadth of our techno...
- 15 Aug 2018
The India Circuit: 6 Reasons To Register for CDNLive India Today!

Madhavi Rao

CDNLive India 2018 is just around the corner! In a few weeks’ time, on the 6th and 7th of September, CDNLive India will host Cadence technology users, developers, and industry experts for two days of learning, networking and fun! If that&rsquo...
- 14 Aug 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso: The Next Overture – Introducing Design Intent

sarahfino

Simplifies the defining of design goals and gives layout designers the freedom to decide how to implement those goals.
- 14 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: CDNDrive Automotive Solutions: the Front Wheels

Paul McLellan

Harold Wilson, then Britain's Prime-minister, once said, "A week is a long time in politics." Well, a year is a long time in the current automotive market. I've written quite a bit about the market in general (most recently about th...
- 14 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: The Birthplace of Silicon Valley: 391 South San Antonio Road

Paul McLellan

The birthplace of Silicon Valley really does have an address, 391 South San Antonio Road. In fact, it has two addresses, 844 Charleston Road as well. But the San Antonio Road one is earlier by a couple of years. There will be a plaque unveiling there...
- 13 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Deep Learning and the Cloud

Paul McLellan

It is an exaggeration to say that deep learning requires the cloud, but the standard way to do the training part of deep learning has become the cloud, especially servers equipped with NVIDIA GPUs. EDA is involved in deep learning in several differen...
- 10 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 13th to 17th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/H03oGGaUfQo Coming from Stevens Creek Mini (camera Sean) Monday: 391 South San Antonio Road Tuesday: CDNDrive: Cadence Automotive Solutions Wednesday: 7nm Is a Dress Rehearsal for 5nm Thursday: The Birthplac...
- 10 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Breakfast Buffet for July

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/JQz3cseZcZc The three highlighted posts for July were: CDNLive Japan: 対応ポートフォリオ Liberate Trio: Characterization Suite in the Cloud Cadence Is MAGESTIC Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.
- 9 Aug 2018
System, PCB, & Package Design : EE Thermal 101 – Thermal Basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 3 of 4)

Sigrity

In part 2 of this blog series we looked at the three different modes of heat transfer and related them to equivalent thermal resistances. In this blog, we’ll use the concept of thermal resistors to develop a thermal equivalent network of...
- 9 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: CHIPs in the Cadence Cafeteria

Paul McLellan

Last week it was the Annual San Jose Intern Showcase, in which the San Jose based interns all set up posters across the back of the building 10 cafeteria for a couple of hours. How Many Interns Are There? I go to this event, talk to some interns, and...
- 9 Aug 2018
PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析: 升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由

TeamAllegro

Cadence Allegro 17.2-2016是过去十年中发布的最大版本，于2016年4月下旬发布。由于17.2-2016版本包含数据库更改，通常会出现在零版本中，很多人想知道何时是升级的最佳时间。如下列出了升级到Allegro 17.2-2016版本的十大理由，以便您更好地理解每一项的价值。本文将帮助您学会Allegro 17.2-2016版本中的这些新功能，并从中受益。在这一期文章发布之后，我们将针对每一项作更详细的介绍。 1.先进的柔性和刚柔结合板设计支持 &ndash...
- 8 Aug 2018
Breakfast Bytes: CDNLive Japan: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Third Dimension

Paul McLellan

At CDNLive Japan, Tom Beckley gave the keynote Enabling the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). At one point he announced Sigrity 2018, the latest version of the Sigrity power and signal integrity analysis tool, now merging in a lot of mecha...
- 8 Aug 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso: The Next Overture – DRD Launches New Interface

Pallabi R

If you’ve been anywhere near the Cadence news buzz the last couple of months, you must have heard about the DRD relaunch. Let’s have a closer look at what the new DRD brings to you.
- 7 Aug 2018

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