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I had never heard of the RISC-V (pronounced five, not vee) instruction set until earlier this year when there was a presentation about it at EDPS in Monterey. I immediately texted the daughter of a friend of mine who is a CS major at Berkeley where it...

Another DAC, and this year someone put a jalapeno in my margarita at the Denali Party. The burn came on slow, and was merciless. So we all yelled “Carpe Diem!”

The really good news is that there was a lot of traffic at the floor show, and we seemed to garner the largest crowds. Overall attendance was strong. And we saw increased interest in customers talking with our IP technical experts at the Expert Bar…

Wouldn't it be great if you could see your plots directly on the schematic? Well in ADE Explorer, now you can!

Run a simulation in Explorer and open the design in tab and choose Waveforms from the show/hide balloon drop down or use the bind key CTRL+B

Hover over the nets/terminals in the design and balloons showing the simulation plot will appear.

To pin the balloons use the bindkey SHIFT+B or click on…

The Raspberry Pi has firmly established itself as a household name by providing a hands-on way to learn programming in a small, simple, and very affordable package. First released just over 4 years ago in February 2012, the device can not only handle...

At DAC, Cadence had their now traditional verification lunch. Brian Fuller returned in his role as the host and moderator. The panel consisted of:

• Jim Hogan of Vista Ventures, another Cadence alumnus, and an expert on the EDA industry in general (and...

On 21 April, Cadence and the Moscow Institute for Electronics Technologies (MIET) organized Technology Days in the MIET building in Zelenograd in the vincinity of Moscow. Zelenograd is the heart of the Russian microelectronics industry—both Russian foundries...

Cadence Academic Network is a worldwide activity; therefore, the team members are often traveling to quite exotic places on earth to visit universities, talk with the professors, and tell them what Academic Network can offer them. One of the most...

The 16.6-2015 Allegro PCB Editor release introduces the interactive conversion of Orthogonal and 45-degree routed traces into a Zig-Zag pattern to minimize the Fiber Weave Effect in a Printed Circuit Board (PCB).

What is “Fiber Weave Effect”?...

From May 2 to May 4, Cadence once again hosted their hugely popular user conference CDNLive EMEA. The Academic Track, co-ordinated by the Cadence Academic Network, is a platform to share papers about advances in teaching methods and research techniques...

For all IP providers, the ultimate proof of quality of their product is certification for standard compliance. Exhaustive testing conducted by third-party labs or at compliance workshops assess the behavior of the component across variety of conditions that can take place in customer’s application. Passing the compliance suite helps both convince existing prospects, as well as promote to get new ones.

Cadence has…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses using neural networks as part of vision systems.

https://youtu.be/5vj8coVTN_4

Last week I was in Belgium for imec's international technology forum (ITF). For me one of the high spots is always An Steegan's presentation on what is going on just over the horizon in process development. I will write about that in a week or two once...

Enhanced User Experience with Redesigned Virtuoso Forms

Research and customer feedback has revealed that you feel some Virtuoso forms are quite complex, with too many options displayed on the forms and use models that are unclear. Based on your feedback, we have begun redesigning the most frequently used forms across Virtuoso applications.

As you start to use the redesigned forms in Virtuoso, you will see that they are…

At the Linley IoT conference a few weeks ago, one of the presentations was by NXP's Donnie Garcia. As in all such presentations, there was some bias towards the best solution being an NXP microprocessor, but most of the presentation was at a higher level...

Usually the phrase "fireside chat" is just a figure of speech, but Wednesday's came with a real fire. A spotlight caught fire above Mentor's booth, and the entire conference center was evacuated for half an hour or so. Luckily, we got the all-clear and...

The last day of the DAC tradeshow is the best...said nobody ever. After two days in the booth for exhibitors, or two days watching non-stop demos and presentations for attendees, the third day seems endless. Although the exhibition finishes on Wednesday...

Tuesday, the second day of DAC. Last night I learned that in Texas there is a third thing that you don't discuss, to go along with politics and religion: barbecue. After the show closed, we went to the Iron Works barbecue, which is almost around the back...

Yes, indeed, we all love it when a plan comes together. A plan for running all the simulations you need, using different combinations of tests, corners, variables, and run modes. A plan that you can execute with a single button before you go home in the evening. A plan that will stop if, for some reason, your design isn't performing to spec so that you aren't wasting resources running simulations on a bad design. The…

Monday is always a hectic start to DAC. If you have been in the industry for decades, as I have, it is hard to walk more than twenty yards without meeting old friends and colleagues who have been in the industry for years, too.

Gary Smith EDA

Traditionally the start of DAC is a short presentation by Gary Smith EDA on what to see at DAC and their view on the future of the EDA industry. As usual, Lori Kate, Gary's wife (I refuse to say widow, it is a horrible word), opens with...

The e Reflection API allows you to perform various queries on entities in your own code, and to figure out which types, fields, methods, and so on have been declared in the code, the relations between them, and their source information. However, what the Reflection API does not provide is an ability to figure out if those entities are actually used, and if so, where they are used. For example, you have declared a method…

DAC starts this weekend. So what should you go to? I'll tell you what my plans are. Of course, my job is largely to find interesting things to write about here, which is probably very different from your job. So you can't just take this list and run with...

Black-belt interface and memory protocol technologists will be at your disposal at this year’s DAC (Design Automation Conference) in Austin, Texas, June 5-9. You have to sign up for some activities, so please read carefully and don’t leave everything to the last minute. The Cadence Theater is located in our booth #107, and is a place to hear from our customers and partners about Cadence IP. You can see the…

Luc van den Hove, the CEO of imec, gave the opening keynote at the imec Technology Forum in Brussels last week. There were really two themes to his presentation.

One theme was Gordon Moore and Moore's Law. imec had awarded Gordon Moore the Lifetime of...