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In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Marc Greenberg describes the post-package repair capability introduced in the LPDDR4 specification which is expected to increase in importance for future LP/DDR5 memories.

https://youtu.be/kIpQXWTGnHA

Undoubtedly, the most important component of any online portal is CONTENT and its Ease of Accessibility. In the digital world, content is a mix of text, graphic, video, and so on. This blog covers different types of collateral available on Cadence Support...

As NVIDIA's Jensen Huang pointed out a few weeks ago, and I covered in my blog post yesterday NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on Accelerating the Race to Autonomous Cars, processors are not getting any faster. Instruction-level parallelism is all tapped...

https://youtu.be/9bkl9KLReDI

Coming from hyperspace (camera Sean, editing me)

Monday: Moving Logic into the 3rd Dimension

Tuesday: An Academic View on How Tesla Will Not Win

Wednesday: Samsung SDI on Batteries

Thursday: O Lord Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes...

At Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), the team working to create IP for “The Machine,” HPE’s vision for the future of computing, recently decided to make the switch to the Xcelium Simulator from their old mix of simulators. To gauge how much Xcelium would help improve their productivity, engineers at HPE devised a series of trials. Each trial applied a specific set of circumstances to check how Xcelium would perform in…

When you push more of your board into high-performance design fabric like an SoC, suddenly you have the scope for differentiation and innovation in an SoC that you design yourself. Custom SoCs increase differentiation, reliability, IP protection, security of supply, and performance. They also decrease board size, power, BOM, and cost. Are you ready to take the leap?

Many companies are working with custom ASICs these…

Jensen (Jen-Hsun) Huang is CEO of NVIDIA. If you know anything about NVIDIA, it is probably that they have a strong position in the graphic processor unit (GPU) market, especially for video games. However, their industry has been changing. A GPU is a...

I sat down with Tracy Zhu to find out about the academic network in Asia Pacific. I'm based in San Jose, and she is based in Shanghai, so the obvious place to meet is...a biergarten in Munich!

She joined a year ago from running an academic program...

https://youtu.be/Dgy8LrCe13s

Coming from the Intel Museum (camera Sean)

Monday: NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on Accelerating the Race to Autonomous Cars

Tuesday: Embargoed Product Announcement

Wednesday: Automotive: One Thing Could Shut Down this Party...

At the conference in Ludwigsburg that I attended, Volkmar Denner, head of management at Bosch, talked about the future of connected mobility. Bosch is the largest tier-1 automotive supplier in Europe. However, they are not limited to automotive and also...

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Marc Greenberg explains the difference between error correcting code (ECC) implementation using a traditional sideband architecture vs. the new in-line ECC used in LPDDR4 which delivers improved error correction for sensitive applications like automotive electronics.

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One of my favorite quotes about SW programming is the following by Edsger Dijkstra: "If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." Yes, we all insert bugs while we write code. And a significant part of the verification development time is spent on debugging. You might be tempted to think that most debugging time is spent on detecting errors like memory…

If you work in the semiconductor industry, and you probably do if you are reading this, then you know how fascinating it is. There has never been a technology like it, that is both unbelievably complex and moves at such an incredible pace. But it is not...

I have been at SEMICON West recently. Just a little introduction in case you don't know much about it. SEMICON is one of several conferences run by SEMI around the world. SEMI is the semiconductor equipment manufacturers association. SEMICON West is held...

The best part about programming in SKILL™ is that you don't have to build everything from scratch. Cadence provides SKILL APIs that let you quickly and easily customize existing CAD applications and develop new ones. Before you adopt any new API, you have to first understand its usage and behavior. At times, you start using an API thinking you know all that you need to know about it, only to get stuck at some…

One of the main targets of the Cadence Academic Network is to present latest Cadence technologies to academia. Therefore, the Academic Network has organized a series of workshops on different technologies across Europe.

Advanced Verification for Academia...

At CDNLive in Munich, Cadence's Robert Schweiger gave a walkthrough all of the things that Cadence is doing in automotive. In yesterday's post, CDNDrive: Cadence Automotive IP Solutions, I gave an overview and wrote about the automotive IP solutions...

https://youtu.be/vzXHenSMfoM

Coming from the Cadence campus (camera Sean)

Monday: SEMICON: China, China, China

Tuesday: The Four Ts: Trade, Tax, Talent and Technology Funding

Wednesday: Bosch: the Future of Connected Mobility

Thursday: Cadence...

At CDNLive in Munich, Cadence's Robert Schweiger gave a walkthrough all of the things that Cadence is doing in automotive. Since Cadence's Virtuoso platform is a leader in analog design, Cadence has been in automotive semiconductor since the market has...

If you missed Michelle Mao’s presentation at the recent Autosens conference in Detroit, “What Will It Take to Bring DNN to Embedded?”, you missed an important evaluation of how designers can do four fundamental things to lower the power budget and bring deep neural networks (DNNs) to embedded systems:

• Optimize the network architecture
• Optimize the problem definition
• Minimize the number of bits per…

At the recent Autosens conference in Detroit, Cadence's Michelle (Xuehong) Mao presented on the challenge of bringing Deep Neural Nets to Embedded. I covered the first part of her talk yesterday in CactusNet: One Network to Rule Them All.

As a reminder...