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At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium, various speakers gave details of the various TSMC processes. Since the rules of the technology symposium are that you can take notes but not record the presentation, nor photograph anything (and they don't hand...

The idea to have a Tensilica Day at University of Hanover was born during CDNLive EMEA 2015. Professor Holger Blume, whose team has a lot of experience using Tensilica, offered to help us, to organize the event at his facilities and invite all universities...

Back in October we announced the TSMC 28HPC tapeout of our DDR/LPDDR 4/3 Combo PHY. Since then we have made great progress with customers, and our own silicon bring up. Most recently, the combo PHY IP is brought up in our lab and running at 2400 Mbps.

Many price sensitive consumer products continue to leverage 28nm technology for affordable high performance and low power consumption. Originally announced at Memcon 2014,…

When Willie Sutton was asked by the judge why he kept robbing banks, he said "because that's where the money is." Actually he denied ever having said it (although if someone accused me of making such a great epigrammatic quote, I'd run with it). Anyway...

Dark Silicon may sound like a character from the latest Star Wars movie, but it actually refers to limitations on power on large SoCs, which makes it increasingly difficult to power up the whole chip at the same time.

For years, we took advantage of...

When Bob Smith took over as the Executive Director of EDAC, I called him up and one of the things that we discussed was broadening its scope. There were two ways in which EDAC is very narrowly focused, one is geographical and one is EDA-centricity. It...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday's video, Gopi Krishnamurthy highlights how Cadence implements the higher speeds of PCI Express (PCIe) Gen4 into the PCIe controller and PHY IP.

https://youtu.be/jdzBLPa_X70

"The number of people predicting the end of Moore's Law doubles every two years." It's a good joke that I had forgotten until Friday when I read the Economist, the magazine that insists on calling itself a newspaper. I have been a subscriber since before...

Cadence has grown from a small startup to a $1.7B corporation. Its history includes companies that have come under the Cadence fold, to help drive Cadence's growth in those early days and also provide underpinning key technologies that the company continues...

Tensilica products are a bigger business than many people realize. The product line is #1 in DSP IP licensing revenue (since 2012) and is #2 in royalty-bearing licensable processors. 225 separate companies have licensed the technology, and they have created...

Last week was DVCon, the design and verification conference. Despite the D standing for design, DVCon is really the main conference focused on verification. The keynote on Verification: Past, Present, and Future was given by Wally Rhines, the CEO of Mentor...

SoC design groups don't do clouds. True, they take advantage of some of the underlying technology by running their own server farms, sometimes called internal clouds. But they don't take advantage of the economies of scale, and the accompanying cheap...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays, Zeev Kirshenbaum describes a method for creating protocol-independent stimulus using verification IP along with SystemVerilog TLM 2.0 extensions.  This makes interface verification faster and easier.

https://youtu.be/3-7a4JKMcvc

The 16.6-2015 PSpice release has several new features and capabilities:

In case of early effect, quasi-saturation, temperature modeling, avalanche multiplication, and so on, VBIC, a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) model, can be used instead of the SPICE Gummel-Poon (SGP) model for better modeling than SGP.

Beginning with the 16.6-2015 release, a new Q device, which is a npn-type BJT model…

Turing Award 2016

The highest award in computer science, sometimes referred to as the Nobel prize of CS, is the Turing award. It is named for the English computer scientist Alan Turing, who was one of the key contributors to the codebreaking at Bletchley...

One thing that all mobile electronics devices have in common is that they all need to be charged. Over the years, despite the evolution of battery technology, the time between charges has become dramatically shorter. Just like our grandparents remember the good old days when a date was set with a telephone dial, all of us have memories of our Nokia phone lasting a week before it needed to connect the charger. And our…

Every so often there is a change in the level where design gets done and, thus, a change in the tools and methodologies that are required. The last big change was the switch from gate-level design to RTL design requiring high-performance RTL simulation...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Moshik Rubin discusses the history of the PCI Express (PCIe) high-speed serial interface. He highlights many of the improvements that have happened with this interface over the last 14+ years.

https://youtu.be/t4jDqK76eyQ

embedded world is a large conference held every February in Nürnberg, Germany (about an hour by train or car from Munich). It occupies six halls in the conference center. Last time I came it snowed heavily. But when they were setting up the booth earlier...

Did you miss DesignCon this year? If so, you also missed the demonstration of our PCIe 4.0 PHY silicon. You can read more about the demo here.

The IP is implemented in TSMC 16FF+, and is in use by several customers to enable the next generation green datacenter. The underlying SerDes operates from 1.25Gbps to 16Gbps, and was shown supporting the PCIe 4.0 protocol. You can read more about the IP here.

And you can watch…

Cadence has been at Mobile World Congress all week. Actually they are still there today, but by now I am in Nürnberg in Germany where it snowed last night, so not exactly Barcelona weather. Tensilica came to MWC for several years before Cadence acquired...

The Cadence Academic Network is also a career network. We love to help students from our Academic Network Contributor Group network with other members, so they can start a new career or do an internship with their knowledge and experience in Cadence technologies...

Sometimes a little slip of the tongue gives away a deeper truth. One of those happened on day two of Mobile World Congress when Michael O'Hara, CMO of the GSM Association, which represents mobile operators worldwide, introduced Simon Segars, the CEO of...

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