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Monday: Arm Announcement (embargoed)

Tuesday: Cadence Announcement (embargoed)

Wednesday: Why Was Arm Successful in Mobile?

Thursday: Oski Formal Verification Club (with Arm and...

Recently, I wrote about Robert Lang's presentation on Computational Origami. He was a real paper master. The CTO of AMD is Mark Papermaster, although I think he is more of a silicon master than a paper master. At SEMI's strategic materials conference...

Rob Aitken is digging a bit deeper into what it would really take to connect a trillion things in his keynote at Arm TechCon How to Build and Connect a Trillion Things. What would those things be? What might unit volumes be? How could we power them...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays, the second in a three-part series, Scott Jacobson discusses the drivers that are changing the requirements for automotive memory models.

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Diwali is finally here! One of India’s most favorite festivals, it is celebrated across the world not just by Hindus but by many faiths as the Festival of Light, a time to meet friends and family, buy new clothes, and indulge in rich and deliciously artery...

Sorry, you missed Oktoberfest (which is mostly in September anyway). But come to Munich in October for SystemC Evolution Day—a workshop on the evolution of SystemC standards held in Munich, Germany on October 18th. It’s a full day workshop, and the second iteration of a successful first run in May 2016. SystemC Evolution Day will feature several in-depth sessions about current and future standardization topics involving…

Chinese children are familiar with the opening lines of Romance of the Three Kingdoms:

The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, it must divide. Thus it has ever been.

As Ben Horowitz (of Andreesen-Horowitz) says in his new book, The Hard...

Like with any new product in market everyone is anxious about knowing all the features and then trying it out.  The display piece in the showroom and the purveyor are no less than an emancipator. Display piece helps us know how the product, test the areas...

Are we there yet? All verification suffers from the problem of trying to decide when enough verification has been done. It is not possible to exhaustively simulate everything on a chip and so completeness cannot be the criterion (exhaustion, however,...

In Part 3, we started to explore how to analyze the results of Monte Carlo analysis. In Part 4, we will consider the question, what is the relationship between process variation and the circuit’s performance variation? The tool for exploring the relationship process variation and circuit performance variation is mismatch analysis in the tool Virtuoso^® Variation Option (VVO). 

Let’s start by looking at a simple…

In Part 4 of the series, we looked at applying mismatch analysis as a design tool. In Part 5, we will continue to look at mismatch analysis by applying the technology  to other types of designs..

The first case we will look at is a circuit without a DC operating point. A dynamic comparator, see Figure 1, doesn’t have a quiescent operating point making it difficult to analyze.

In this case, the offset voltage is…

Today, Cadence announced that Teradyne has adopted the Xcelium™ Parallel Simulator for use in ASIC development. They’ve reached a 2x speedup with Xcelium when compared to their old simulation solution.

Xcelium has quickly become a key part of Teradyne’s verification environment, providing an easy-to-use, yet very powerful, tool that runs  fast and ensures high-quality designs. Beyond Xcelium, Teradyne…

CDNLive Boston 2017: Teradyne reveals their success with JasperGold in their presentation, Success using Formal Verification--and now they join the ever-growing fold of JasperGold FPV (Formal Property Verifier) App users.

Teradyne had used some of JasperGold's functionality before with the JasperGold Connectivity App, but this marked a noted change in their usage of it by embracing more of the features the JasperGold…

The keynote for the second day of the Linley Processor Conference was by Chris Rowen. Chris was the founder of Tensilica, and became the CTO of the IP group when Cadence acquired them. A year or so ago, he left Cadence to work in deep learning and founded...

Linley Gewennap always gives the opening keynote for the Linley Microprocessor Conference. This year, he titled it Processor Innovation Supersedes Moore's Law. The basic theme was something that I've talked about before (for example, Are General...

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Monday: Are We There Yet? Metric Driven Signoff

Tuesday: The Empire Long Divided Must Unite

Wednesday: Mark Papermaster: Moore's Law Plus

Thursday: Oski Formal Verification...

At the SEMI Strategic Materials Conference, SMC, Lung Chu, who heads up SEMI China (and worked at Cadence at one point in his career) talked about The Rise of China IC Industry: Challenges and Opportunities. There are a number of amazing facts about the...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays, the first in a three-part series, Scott Jacobson takes a closer look and the market size of the automotive electronics industry and how this industry segment drives new requirements for memory models.

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Last week was the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), held in Orlando Florida (it moves around each year). It was created by Telle Whitney and Anita Borg back in 1994. Anita died in 2003 from a brain tumor and Telle runs that conference...

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a TV show called "Get Smart." It was a sort of cross between a James Bond movie, and a Mel Brooks movie, not least because it was created by Mel Brooks. Given that, you won't be surprised to know that the show...