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Cadence is doing a lot at DAC as usual. Here is a summary. But read it carefully, because some things you can't leave to the last minute. You need to sign up or you may be disappointed. In particular, you must sign up for the Denali party and pick up...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dennis Crespo discusses the significant enhancements to the Tensilica Vision P6 DSP for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).

https://youtu.be/R-tRjT7a5gw

CDNLive EMEA is nominally held in Munich (München in German) but, in fact, is held in a small town outside called Unterschleißheim at the Dolce Hotel. If you follow the directions we give, then you take the S-bahn (train) and then a bus. It suggests a...

The 16.6-2015 Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) release contains a few new capabilities!

Read on for more details…

Read-only Sheet Import
In Design Entry HDL (DEHDL), the sheet import command now supports the import of schematic sheets in read-only mode. For details, see the Importing Designs section in Allegro Design Entry HDL User Guide.

Component Browser - ADW Mode
You can now access the Component Browser in two modes…

One of the challenges of developing a new node is that there are a lot of moving parts that interact: the process, the design rules, the cell libraries, and the tools. At CDNLive in Munich, Luca Matti presented the work he is doing for N7 and N5. He is...

A couple of weeks ago, Silicon Catalyst organized an evening panel about corporate venture capital. Corporate VCs are groups within companies, perhaps Intel Capital is the most well-known, that make investments as opposed to the sort of VCs all along...

At CDNLive EMEA in Munich this week, there were two keynotes. The first was by Tom Beckley and was similar to the keynote that he presented at CDNLive Silicon Valley. You can read about it in my blog post. The second keynote was by Ulf Ewaldsson, the...

It is May already and just a month until DAC. I am sure that you already know that DAC is June 5-9^th in Austin. The DAC chair this year is Chuck Alpert, who works here at Cadence. He joined the company a couple of years ago after spending most of his...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses the new Tensilica Vision P6 DSP from Cadence. The Vision P6 DSP is a major step forward in enhancing throughput and efficiency in vision DSP cores to target algorithms that require dramatic compute operations, like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).

It is the Embedded Vision Summit. Every year this event gets bigger, reflecting the growing interest in the area. Silicon is now capable enough that it is feasible to do complex algorithms in smartphones and automotive processors, rather than requiring...

Vision is everywhere. If you look at the number of sensors that are shipped, then vision appears somewhere in the middle (the red bar in the middle of each column on the graph on the left below). But if you look at the amount of data generated then vision...

NVIDIA just released their next-generation GPU architecture called Pascal and a brand-new GPU device, the Tesla P100.

As part of their product promotion of P100 a couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA invited editors and gaming bloggers covering this latest development...

At Cadence we aim to enable our customers’ need to reduce their own design time and effort. That’s why we have worked closely with Hardent to develop a proven and integrated solution for MIPI Display Serial Interface and VESA Display Stream Compression IP. It provides visually lossless compression that reduces bandwidth by up to 3X.

The demonstration of this solution first took place at CDNLive in Silicon…

This year’s Open Server Summit served up plates full of data…if it wasn’t obvious, there’s more data coming. And then more for dessert. So much so that the challenges seem insurmountable to some. Others see huge opportunities, or a need, to disrupt the server market. Or to change the architecture of these systems to better handle new demands.

According to Cisco Systems, annual datacenter traffic…

EDPS, the Electronic Design Process Symposium, always has the second of the two days dedicated to a single topic. This year it was cyber security. The day started with a keynote from Chris Eagle. He is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at the Naval...

Yesterday I covered the analysis by ARM and VLSI Research on FD-SOI from the symposium held a couple of weeks ago. Today it is the turn of the people who actually manufacture the wafers to bring us up to date on how things are going. First Samsung, and...

When a presentation makes us think about an industry on a whole new level and rethink potential outcomes for something significant in our lives, it’s a huge success. This year’s CDNLive San Jose was great for both Cadence and the industry, and here’s why.

Overall, 75% presentations were from customers, and great keynotes (details below) engaged the other attendees. The keynotes on the future of the…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dennis Crespo explains the optional vector floating-point core specifications of the Tensilica Vision P5 DSP.

https://youtu.be/3PMpIw0r1Hs

Virtuoso Video Diary is envisaged to be an online journal that will relay information about Virtuoso videos that are available in the Cadence Online Support Video Library. For IC6.1.7 and ICADV12.2, over a hundred videos on a wide variety of new and exciting Virtuoso features have already been created. Virtuoso Video Diary brings you direct links to these videos and other related material, on regular basis, in your…

Apparently, asking if something is really a thing is really a thing. So, recently, the SOI consortium organized one of their regular symposia and the thing most people in the audience wanted to know is whether FD-SOI is really a thing.

The SOI consortium...

Significant enhancements to the 16.6-2015 Constraint Manager release have been made in the following areas:

•      Tag-based ECSet Mapping
•      Single-Step Method for Creating Class-Class Relationships
•      PCSets and SCSets Difference Reports

Read on for more details ...

Tag-based ECSet Mapping
The process of applying an ECSet to target nets involves mapping the pins in the ECSet to the component pins in design for those…

The members of an orchestra are often great virtuosi on their own instruments, but the conductor - the maestro – is equally important. The maestro has his score on the conductor’s stand to know exactly what is supposed to be played. He explores the individual intonation and assembles the orchestra into a unique sound. Most importantly, he has to verify that every single tone fits the master plan – the score of the musical…

One challenge with standards is the desire to avoid unknowingly incorporating patents into standards in a way that gives the patent holder a monopoly to go after everyone using the standard and demand unreasonable licensing terms.

When I was at VLSI...

Last week Dr. Andrew Kahng came to town. He was at CDNLive, where his presentation Toward New Synergies Between Academic Research and Commercial EDA won the best paper award for the academic track.Then the following day, he presented at the (internal...