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Coming from San Jose City Hall

Monday: ESD Alliance Panel on Energy Policy for the IoT Era

Tuesday: Cadence at MWC: Does This Headset Make Me Look Silly?

Wednesday: TSMC Technology Symposium

Thursday: Andy Bechtolsheim...

There were two sessions that MWC calls "keynotes", but are actually groups of several presentations on the state of the industry. Together, the two big ones on the first day paint a picture of the industry. But depending on who was presenting, either...

Every year, Mobile World Congress (MWC) takes place in Barcelona, Spain. Historically, if you wander around the show floor, the biggest booths are the network equipment vendors, followed by the handset vendors. Of course, the network operators are here...

Just recently Cadence announced the new superb simulator, Xcelium. Just as Specman was part of the previous simulator, IES, it is now part of Xcelium.

As always, we keep enhancing and developing Specman, and the new Specman release, now part of Xcelium, contains great new capabilities. The focus in the last year was on tools that will enable you, the verification experts, to create easy to use powerful verification environments…

Intel had its investor day recently. I'm not going to talk about Intel as an investment. However, as the largest semiconductor company, with 98% market share in datacenter processors and a leader in process technology, there is plenty to take a look at...

If you are my age and grew up in Britain, then Stingray was one of the fore-runners of Thunderbirds (and Team America: World Police, in a rather different sense), made with marionettes rather than actors. This was in the days before CGI and so allowed...

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Shin Chan Kang explains how the Cadence Interconnect Workbench (IWB) helps you with SoC interconnect verification and performance analysis by auto-generating your UVM environment, and also provides functional coverage and performance metrics like bandwidth and latency.

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In part one of this series, we talked about the role of the hardware designer, specifically comparing the ideal version of the hardware designer with the real-world version. From the emails I received, this is a bittersweet reality for many readers of this blog.

Today, we will revisit the life of a hardware designer whose company, like most of the leading semiconductor companies, is using a hardware design paradigm that…

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Coming from Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain

Monday: MWC: Overview of the Conference

Tuesday: MWC; Major Trends in Mobile: Dream vs Reality

Wednesday: MWC: third report

Thursday: Global Foundries Silicon P...

FPGA prototyping is a very attractive tool for some aspects of verification. Apart from actually getting silicon back from manufacturing, it is the fastest model of a chip that you can get. It is really only appropriate very late in the design cycle,...

This morning, Cadence announced two new products in the verification space: Xcelium, and Protium S1. The Cadence implementation and signoff products now all end in "US" (well, you have to squint to make Joules work, because the "U" and the "S" separated...

After the successful Tensilica Day at Hanover University last year (presentations, blog), it was quite a no-brainer to suggest having another one year later. To make an appealing program is already harder, but the Institute for Microelectronic System...

Here’s how you can create expressions using the Expression Builder in 4 easy steps, and just to remind you, you won’t need to use the calculator:

How many times have you opened the calculator and been completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of options? Then you try to create an expression but don't know where to start and then find out that you are in RPN mode?

Well the Expression Builder will be…

I was DesignCon recently. It is a bit of a weird conference, since it covers a wide range of topics, and the exhibition is even weirder—ranging from $200,000 oscilloscopes, to Cadence IP and signal integrity tools, to people selling specialized gold coaxial...

From February 27th to March 2nd it is Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. CES in Las Vegas is the conference for consumer electronics, and although there are mobile phones around, the big conference for mobile is MWC. This is where new handsets...

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Coming from inside the Intel Museum, Santa Clara

Monday: Embargoed release

Tuesday: Embargoed release

Wednesday: Embargoed release

Thursday: Preview of Cadence at Mobile World Congress

Friday: Intel Investor Day

You might have seen the graph below about the increase in monthly internet traffic around the world. Ever wondered what was causing it?

If you think all that traffic is simply due to people binge-watching House of Cards on Netflix, or uploading the...

Ok, I admit it… that title is a blatant attempt to grab your attention. But it should also make you think.  As a hardware designer, is your job great? Is it what you thought you’d be doing when you decided to become a designer? Is it, dare I say, fun?

Or, like I hear so many times especially from those designing embedded integrated circuits, are you too bogged down in the muck of cranking out hardware implementations…

When Cadence first acquired RocketSim, I wrote a post, Omnia Simulation in Tres Partes Divisa Est, about how simulation was like Gaul, divided into three parts. The three parts were:

1. Interpreted simulation (byte codes called p-code, an outgrowth of...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dharini SubashChandran explains how to control the behavior of memory models during simulation.

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A generic Internet of Things (IoT) device consists of some sensors, some computations, and a wireless interface. (There are other types of designs but those are the basics.) IoT devices are characterized by requiring extremely long battery life, perhaps...