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It's Monday, the first real day of DAC after the kickoff on Sunday evening. See Guide to Austin for Newbies, and DAC Sunday Kickoff for more details of yesterday.

In his introduction, Mike "Mac" McNamara put up a slide with some notable...

Cadence returns to DAC 2017 this year, showcasing our full verification suite. Here are some of the things you can look forward to from us in the upcoming week.

Once again, Cadence has the Expert Bar on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The Expert Bar is where engineers can visit our booth and have conversations with our technical experts. Cadence will be running many sessions, and those topics are listed below.

Sean O'Kane and I wandered around the show floor during setup on Sunday and looked at how the show is shaping up.

https://youtu.be/qDjKQ8lXGR4

This is my first post from DAC. I will be posting each day about the most interesting stuff that I saw the day before, except for the events that I feel justify their own post next week. Since it is Monday, and not much happened on Sunday (I didn't attend...

If you have been watching my "What's for Breakfast?" weekly video previews, then you will notice that I've been traveling a bit recently. The most recent videos were from Chicago, the moon, Shanghai, Munich, Mexico City, and beer pong...

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

Virtuoso System Design Platform functionality is no less than a magic for an IC designer for whom the weeks of effort gets reduced to just few minutes! Virtuoso System Design Platform brings together the Virtuoso® and Allegro®/Sigrity™ platforms seamlessly…

Cadence Academic Network (CAN) hosted a Cadence Research Workshop in Duke Kunshan University on June 1^st, 2017. This Research Workshop was co-chaired by Cadence and Professor Xin Li, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University...

If you live in the Bay Area, you have almost certainly heard KQED's Forum program, at least occasionally. It is on every weekday from 9-11am, hosted for over 25 years by Michael Krasny. It is also available, delayed a few days, as a podcast. Of course...

Cadence Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs) are designed to help users quickly adopt new technologies into their flows and boost their productivity. Keeping this in mind, RAKs to help you understand the following features are now available on Cadence Online Support:

• Modgen On Canvas
• Row-Based Placement

The Modgen On Canvas commands were introduced in the IC6.1.7 ISR8 and ICADV12.3 base releases. These…

This is the third post on the second Samsung Foundry Day held recently. The first was Samsung Foundry Forum: Roadmaps. The second was Samsung Foundry Forum: EUV.

In the first post I wrote about the rest of the Samsung...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett explains the 3 forces driving SoC design teams to integrate off-the-shelf interface IP from commercial vendors rather than design the IP themselves.

https://youtu.be/demOFwbSb6k

https://youtu.be/QtKiDx9yXAY

Coming from the Staten Island Ferry NY (camera Sam McLellan)

Monday: Introduction to Austin and DAC Sunday Review

Tuesday: Review of DAC Monday

Wednesday: Review of DAC Tuesday

Thursday: Review of DAC Wednesday

Friday...

This is the second post on the second Samsung Foundry Day held recently. The first was Samsung Foundry Forum: Roadmaps. This post is all about EUV. Since all EUV scanners are supplied by ASML, most of what one manufacturer says applies to all of them...

The Real-Time Tuning (RTT) assistant is one of the most powerful features of ADE Explorer that helps you fine-tune your design without the need to run simulations repeatedly. It is equipped with simple and easy-to-use graphical user interface that lets you change the design variables and parameter values and also view the updated results simultaneously.

While working with the RTT assistant, you may want to reconfigure…

I attended the second Samsung Foundry Forum. As seems to be traditional for foundries, they had the usual rules that they wouldn't hand out the presentations, you couldn't record, you couldn't take photographs.

But you could take notes. So...

Welcome to the XTeam blog! We are a team of bloggers dedicated to showcasing the newest in parallel simulation technology with the Xcelium Parallel Simulator. In this blog, we will bring you informational and technical articles regarding Xcelium’s features, such as X-propagation technology, save and restore, and incremental elaboration, in addition to information about innovations and general improvements over existing…

Photonics is transmitting data through fiber optic cables. As such, photonics is everywhere in datacenters today, and increasingly likely to be in cars and planes. Optical transmission is very attractive since it can support high speeds, the transmission...

Yes, it's nearly here, the 54th Design Automation Conference in Austin, Texas (and by the way, the next DACs will be back in San Francisco and then Vegas).

Of course the underlying theme is System Design Enablement, moving design up to the next level...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett completes the story of the evolving von Neumann computer architecture and the adaptations driven by recent cloud computing challenges.  The effort to overcome these challenges has led to the development of a new industry standard called the Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX).

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https://youtu.be/oikFfm15nw8

Coming from Samsung@First (camera Sean)

Monday: Samsung Foundry Forum: Roadmaps

Tuesday: Samsung Foundry Forum: EUV

Wednesday: Samsung Foundry Forum: Beyond FinFET and FD-SOI

Thursday: KQED Forum Live from Computer...

As many of you know, Cadence (more correctly, “I”) recently performed an industry survey about HLS (High Level Synthesis) to get a fuller view of the productivity experiences and expectations from users and non-users alike.

With nearly 200 responses, roughly half from HLS users and half not, we got a representative picture of what HLS users, potential users, and even skeptics believe about HLS. So let’s dive…