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Last night was the annual Kaufman Award dinner to present the award to this year's honoree, who is Andrzej Strojwas. I say "this year" but in fact this was the 2016 Kaufman Award. The dinner is usually held in October or November but this year it slipped...

https://youtu.be/NxgrCMJYRew

Coming from Kaufman Award Dinner

Monday: The Kaufman Award Dinner honors Andrzej Strojwas

Tuesday: Embargoed announcement

Wednesday: Formal Verification Book Review

Thursday: ASML Standard Node

Friday: Handling Variability...

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, with the purpose of “advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light”. What everyone calls "spie", however, is actually the SPIE Advanced...

In a recent a16z presentation, Frank Chen, a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz, says that everything that moves will eventually go autonomous. To be honest, a lot of that was clear at CES recently, where autonomous cars and drones were ubiquitous. If there...

One of the hottest areas in systems right now is deep learning: neural networks, machine learning, machine vision, convolutional neural networks. There are, obviously, differences between these, depending on the application, but one thing they have...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a three-part series, Scott Jacobson describes the birth and formative years of Ethernet, including the contributions of co-inventor Bob Metcalfe whose vision for information sharing built on earlier efforts including the Aloha Network and the Xerox Networking System.

https://youtu.be/MCO8pieJzbo

Cadence today announced that its next-generation Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment (ADE) product suite has won a Product of the Year award from Electronic Products magazine. This year marks Electronic Products’ 41st annual Product of the Year awards, recognizing the best products in the industry.  Over the last 2 years, we have worked very hard to advance the cause of analog design and electrical verification…

It's that time of year when pundits try and predict major changes that will happen in 2017. I suppose I'm a pundit, so here are my predictions. I'm at least honest enough to go back and see what I said last year and whether any of those predictions...

The Electronic System Design Alliance (fka EDAC) has been organizing evening meetings every 6 months or so, under the auspices of the emerging companies. These are hosted by Jim Hogan. The latest one took place last week at Cadence and was about two...

You heard it right! It’s Virtuoso Abstract Generator, the popular library modeling tool that lets you create abstracts from detailed layout information in various formats. Abstracts, when used for routing instead of full layouts, result in improved performance of place-and-route tools, such as the Cadence® Innovus™ Implementation System and the Cadence® Encounter™ Digital Implementation System (EDI System).…

Automotive was huge at CES. A lot of it went for the glamour without really having much electronics, concept cars which will never see the light of day. But increasingly cars are about electronics. As I told someone recently, a couple of years ago, nobody...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nimrod Reiss takes a closer look at the verification challenges engineers face when working on interconnect designs.

https://youtu.be/C0ym6CWDwZE

It's the start of the year, plus the Consumer Electronics Show is over. I've already written about the things that I thought were most significant. One area where I am sure we will be hearing a lot during 2017 is security.

We ended...

As you incrementally build your design and decompose the layout geometry into masks or colors, you may want to change the color already applied to a shape or a set of shapes. At the same time, you may want the color of some shapes to stay unchanged. So, you lock the color on such shapes, because, by default, color shifting is not permitted on locked shapes. But what about the conflicts that occur when you end up locking…

Despite all of the recent political tensions, Russia remains an attractive market for microelectronics and EDA software. Cadence has two offices in Russia: one medium-sized R&D office in the center of Moscow, and one office in Zelenograd, outside of Moscow...

Steve Mollenkopf, the CEO of Qualcomm, gave one of the keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show recently. Of course Qualcomm is historically a huge fabless semiconductor company that sells mostly into the mobile market with chips under the Snapdragon...

What is Bluetooth 5? 4.2? Bluetooth Classic? Bluetooth Smart? Low Energy? The naming is confusing, for sure.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (which sounds like a dental convention) announced Bluetooth 5 last June and officially adopted it in December...

The latest RISC-V workshop was held at Google. In the middle of the day, there was an interesting presentation by Eric Grosse. He used to be VP of security at Google but he has recently returned to more hands-on engineering work. His talk was titled

https://youtu.be/ympju1edOh8

Coming from my office at Cadence

Monday: Review of Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy

Tuesday: Steve Mollenkopf's keynote from CES

Wednesday: Automotive at CES

Thursday: Security in 2016 and 2017

The ESD Alliance Emerging Companies have been organizing a series of evening events, sometimes panel sessions, sometimes interviews. The thread tying them all together is that they are hosted by Jim Hogan (who is an independent investor these days, although...

Happy New Year, and the first week of January means it is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Some people hate it, but I like the way that you get a look at what consumers are going to have on their shopping list...or not...without anyone curating what...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three-part series on Ethernet, Scott Jacobson explores what our world looked like before Ethernet and other networking standards came about.  For more information on Cadence Verification IP (VIP) please visit: https://ip.cadence.com/ipportfolio/verification-ip/simulation-vip

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Every year, UBM, the parent company of EE TImes and EDN (and the organizer of several shows such as ESC and ARM TechCon) has a competition known as the ACE Awards. ACE stands for Annual Creativity in Electronics. They have been going for a long time,...

https://youtu.be/33fiVk2BoKo

Coming from Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas at during Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

Monday: The Palladium team one the ACE award for Design Team of the Year 2016

Tuesday: Highlights from CES

Wednesday: ESD Alliance Jim...