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Paolo Gargini gave the opening keynote at GOMAC recently. It was titled The Secret of Success: Roadmap, Research, Prototyping, and Manufacturing.

He has been involved in the direction of semiconductor technology for several decades. He has had two hats...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett explains why the USB Type-C interface took longer than expected to show up in consumer electronics.  He breaks down the 5 reasons for the delay and why they also apply to the adoption of all new standards.

https://youtu.be/Qrw0Fsd0cCs

https://youtu.be/3sofRincYsg

Coming from CDNLive Silicon Valley (camera Sean)

Monday: We Live on a Radioactive Planet

Tuesday: Linley Autonomous Hardware Conference

Wednesday: 200th Anniversary of Comparative Advantage

Thursday: CCIX aka C6

Friday...

There is a famous line in Lewis Carrol's Through the Looking Glass that could have been written by the team leader of a design rule check (DRC) product:

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can...

There are thousands of good reasons to go to DAC this year. I'll give you seven in this blog post. But one of those reasons towers over all the others. Literally, at 6' 6" tall.

The opening keynote is being...

The trusted supplier day at GOMAC opened with a slightly off-topic, but fascinating, keynote by Scott Howitt, who is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO, or see-soh) of MGM Resorts International. They are most famous for owning about 40% of the...

https://youtu.be/nvwMIujDzco

Coming from Monterey CA (camera me)

Monday: Preview of DAC keynotes

Tuesday: First Day of CDNLive Silicon Valley and an Announcement

Wednesday: Paolo Gargini's Semiconductor Roadmap

Thursday: Retimers, gearboxes...

For power and performance reasons, video and vision processing are attractive to offload from the main processor in a datacenter or in an embedded device. An Intel x86 server processor, or a 64-bit ARM^® processor are not the best tools for the task...

As part three of the “Making Hardware Design Great Again” series, let’s see how high-level synthesis (HLS) is helping designers create SoCs for WiFi, Bluetooth, and 5G.

A common challenge in all three wireless spaces is that their standards are evolving… rapidly. Each new specification, or sub-specification, opens new opportunities. It’s a good opportunity for companies to establish themselves as providers…

Every year Cadence Design Systems an industry leader in the Electronic Design Automation Industry hosts worldwide CDNLive forums where Cadence technology users and technical industry experts showcase their latest innovations using Cadence technologies associated with designing Digital ICs, Mixed-Signal ICs and PCBs.

This year at CDNLive Silicon Valley from April 11^th to April 12^th the PCB simulation session track is showcasing…

Have you tried a product incorporating the new USB Type-C port? Do you wonder how well it works? I recently bought a new laptop and monitor that support this interface. In fact, Type-C is the only port on those devices.

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I’ve been looking forward to the promise of a single, all-encompassing port ever since I wrote Why USB 3.0 Will Drive SoC Verification back in 2013. Well…

GOMACTech is the GOvernment Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology conference. Basically military electronics, with a sprinkling of other government topics like spectrum allocation and space. This year it was held in Reno, Nevada. Next year...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett describes his experience as a user of a new laptop incorporating the USB Type-C interface.  He explains the 3 main features of USB Type-C and the 3 key benefits that the interface delivers.

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This is the second of two posts on the CASPA Symposium on Autonomous Driving. The first was CASPA Autonomous Driving 1.

Chia-Lin talked on Are We There Yet? Autonomous Cars and Legal Considerations. If Max suffered from the "if all...

Zhan Gao studied microelectronics in the Xidian University in China and after getting her master’s degree in developing an algorithm to abstract parasitic capacitors at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, she chose to continue with research and is...

Recently, CASPA, the Chinese-American Semiconductor Professionals Association, held a symposium on automotive driving. Having chaired a panel for them once, I seem to be a sort of honorary member (虽然我不是中国人). Even though it was a Saturday afternoon and...

In the days when the ESD Alliance was still called EDAC, they used to organize a CEO Forecast Panel at the start of the year. This never worked that well since any date chosen would be in one of the big three EDA companies' quiet periods between the end...

In Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler, it’s not unusual to see a large number of records in the Outputs Setup and Results tabs. At times, the number of records is so high that it is difficult to focus on a relevant set of rows or columns. In such scenarios, you may want to customize these tabs to show selected rows or columns, rearrange them in a specific order, or search for some specific values…

There is a famous 1981 movie called My Dinner with Andre. If you've not seen it, you might expect that it is like most movies and rather more happens than is conveyed in the title. But, no, the movie is basically a conversation over dinner for two hours...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a two-part series, Megha Daga continues her discussion on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).  This week she talks about the different architectural layers present in CNN and how they contribute to object detection and classification in a real world scenario.

https://youtu.be/YSGihRkpfms

Tomorrow, I'll be talking about one of Lucio Lanza's latest areas of interest, having had breakfast with him recently. But I thought I'd also republish a blog post that resulted from a chat that I had with him that I did a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/juyMucCfa-I

Coming from the Cadence parking lot

Monday: CASPA Autonomous Driving 1

Tuesday: CASPA Autonomous Driving 2

Wednesday: GOMAC, Government Microelectronics

Thursday: Linley Autonomous Conference

Friday: What Keeps MGM...

This is the second part of a two-part post about the SDE Circle of Life. The first part was on Friday.

I like to say that the world changed on January 9th, 2007—at the moment when Hang (Hannah) Zhang, a barista at a Starbucks in San Francisco, received...