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Charlie Miller gave a keynote at ARM TechCon on automotive security. He is regarded as one of the world's most proficient hacker, although he is one of the good guys (a white hat in security parlance). He has a PhD, worked for the NSA, and is currently...

https://youtu.be/n4jz8shM1hM

Monday: The amazing story of Raspberry Pi as told by Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi foundation

Tuesday: The Jasper User Group is the largest gathering of formal verification engineers each year. See what is...

One of the big themes of pretty much any conference on semiconductors these days is automotive, and DVCon Europe was no exception. For me the most memorable phrase of the day was from Amir Rahat of Optima, that automotive semiconductors are "a pot of...

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is a key kernel in almost all DSP applications, and an important benchmark for assessing the efficiency of a DSP.  In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pushkar Patwardhan discusses how efficient FFTs are on the Tensilica ConnX BBE32EP, a DSP targeted for complex number processing in wireless baseband and radar applications.

https://youtu.be/IDg4u_qux44

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Do you remember what life was like before the internet and smart phones? If you wanted to find information about something, you had to go to the library and find a book that could answer your question, which usually meant a delay of anything from a few hours to several days. Then the internet happened, and the world as we know it changed forever. Smart phones came along, and brought with them a new kind of freedom and…

On the first day of the Linley Processor conference someone told me that he was really looking forward to the presentation the following day from Wave Computing. I had to confess I'd never heard of them. That wasn't entirely surprising. Chris Nicol, their...

When I was growing up, there was a TV show in the UK called Steptoe and Son, and renamed Sanford and Son when it was remade for the US market. Yesterday was the Segars and Son show. Son's company Softbank acquired Simon Segars' company ARM about six weeks...

On October 20, 2016, 12 Masters and Ph.D. students mostly from Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University visited the Cadence Beijing Office.

The group was welcomed by Tracy Zhu, Cadence Academic Network Program Manager in Asia Pacific. Then...

Enhanced Contour Routing is a new prototype feature in the Cadence® Allegro® PCB Designer 17.2-2016 that provides a more efficient method to add routing during Add Connect by following an existing connect line or a route keepin. This feature has been vastly improved over the legacy Contour feature by removing a continuous dialog popup, introducing a simple canvas-based two-state click use model, and enabling Sho…

The whole afternoon the second day of the Linley Processor Conference was dedicated to automotive. To show how important this has become, what used to be the Mobile Processor Conference is no more, and in 2017 there will be an Autonomous Processor Conference...

I wrote recently about the keynote from the Linley processor conference about network virtualization, and an analogy with server virtualization. One question that I know from when I worked at VaST and Virtutech is that the whole idea of virtualization...

https://youtu.be/wL43x-MOfWY

It's Automotive Week on Breakfast Bytes.

Monday: Mike Demler's overview of automotive and the NXP keynote from the Linley Processor Conference

Tuesday: Segars and Son, the opening keynote from ARM TechCon

Sophia Antipolis is in the south of France, a sort of research park carved out of scrubland on top of a plateau inland from Antibes (Antipolis is the Latin name for Antibes). It was created in the 1970s and built up slowly. The initial "companies" that...

We need our cars to be safe as the amount of electronics in them increases almost exponentially. One aspect of that is that the component suppliers need to provide Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) certification, which includes a formal assessment...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, we discuss about integration of IP in a SoC context. Patrick Oury explains how to use Cadence Verification IP (VIP) to coordinate SoC activation together with functional tests coming from the external simulating world.

https://youtu.be/opRibfQUW-I

There are different conferences on microelectronics. There are the industry conferences, where the CEOs are telling how well their companies are prepared for or against the next disruption, these conferences have usually the best food. Then there are...

DVCon Europe took place last week for the third time. If you are in China, you have your own DVCon coming next year for the first time, April 19 in Shanghai. DVCon Silicon Valley will be February 27 to March 2. And there is a DVCon in India...dates to...

In the late 1970s, most scientific computing was done on digital equipment (DEC) Vax 11/780 computers. The operating system came with a couple of default accounts so that you could log in and configure things when you first got the machine. One was the...

This year's MemCon keynotes were given by Hugh Durdan, VP of the IP Group at Cadence, on Diverging Products for Diverging Needs: Where Will the Memory Industry Be in Five Years, and by Steve Pwalowski, VP of Advanced Computing Solutions at Micron...

On the second day of the Linley Processor conference, the keynote was by Bruce Davie. He did his PhD in computer science at University of Edinburgh (yeah, so did I) and worked for many years for Cisco before joining a company called Nicira, which got...

https://youtu.be/PHVpQ_-tmY8

Monday: The IoT attacks, with the biggest distributed denial of service attack ever

Tuesday: Highlights of DVCon Europe

Wednesday: Reliability and functional safety in automotive, from the TSMC OIP symposium

Thursday...