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The last event of the day at Mobile World Congress was an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook. Obviously with 120,000 people here, not everyone that wanted to attend was going to get into the hall and luckily I was nearby 90 minutes before...

I am in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. They won't give me a press pass since I don't work for a media organization, which means I don't get to go to press conferences like the one on Sunday night where Samsung announced their latest phone, the Galaxy...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda recaps his experience at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016. Jacek specifically highlights the power delivery function in the latest USB spec and how it is gaining popularity. This functionality can be leveraged to get more out of your USB Type-C applications.

https://youtu.be/TSJyZ1qND_c

In the Capture-PSpice 16.6-2015 release, the following enhancements have been added:

• 20 new chapters have been added in the PSpice Application Notes
• Enhancements to the Capture Start Page
• New simulation macro models for the Capture-PSpice Flow

Whenever I hear of "deep learning," it makes me think of Deep Thought, the computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that after years of computation concluded that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything...

Open-source software has many advantages. In short: you can see it (the code), you can inspect it (check out what Coverity revealed in the Android kernel), and you can change it. But the fact that open-source software is not commercial also raises concerns: Is it “polished” enough? Is it thoroughly tested? How hard should I work to make it part of my product? What is the level of support? Etc. Yes, life is always a compromise…

Automotive chips often suffer from a limited chip interface in which most of the pins are analog. But increasingly, high-precision analog is being implemented not as pure analog layout, which suffers too much from process variation, but as a mixture of...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is not really a market, it is a catchall term for devices that connect to the internet, sometimes via our smartphones. The whole IoT ecosystem has a cloud backend and networking to get the data there and back, but I don't...

One of the big themes of the Linley Data Center Conference last week was the possibility that ARM could finally start to get traction in the data center. In the opening keynote, Linley Analysts Jag Bolaria and Bob Wheeler said that microservices and hypercovergence...

One of the big themes from the Linley Data Center Conference earlier this month was the need to get more performance out of each server without increasing the power requirements. Adding more processing power in the form of more cores per server, or more...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra follows up on last week's video by discussing Automotive Ethernet and how it fits into the four different electronic categories in a vehicle.

https://youtu.be/XYT0rahqQ_o

Cadence will be at embedded world in Nüremberg from February 23 to 26. We will be in hall 4/4 booth 116. I'm hoping for a better experience than last time I went when I worked for Virtutech. I was presenting a paper but they messed up the program and...

In my job as product marketing director for vManager and MDV, I get to hear this discussed all the time—when will verification be done? If not asked overtly, at a minimum it’s that rattling and clanging that you just know is going on in people’s heads as they try to formulate the questions and the concerns. So I thought I would write about it, if nothing else to stir the conversation about what is known and what…

What is the consumer marketplace? It is a bit of a tautology, but it is electronic products bought by consumers. As the famous advertising executive David Ogilvy said (in 1955), "the consumer is not an moron, she is your wife." Of course back in that...

There is a transition going on in the system and semiconductor worlds. Some system companies are starting to do their own semiconductor design. In fact, it is notable that all the leading smartphone vendors design their own application processors, for...

The Allegro PCB Editor 16.6-2015 release provides Shape Edit Application Mode, a tuned editing environment optimized for the manipulation of shape boundaries.

In SPB16.0, all Allegro back-end tools with the exception of the PCB Router were enhanced to support a new pre-selection editing model; this involves the selection or hover-over of an element followed by command action. This model is commonly referred to as “Noun…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra takes a closer look at the different categories that implement automotive Ethernet and their importance to the driving experience.

https://youtu.be/H3q3U0ecob4

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is later this month in Barcelona in Spain (actually in Catalonia, but at least for now that is part of Spain despite a push for independence). Funnily enough, the last time I went to Barcelona was in 2002 on my previous tour...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how automotive companies are going to need to change as the importance of electronics becomes the most important thing. But there are some potentially larger changes that will take place once fully autonomous vehicles...

Earlier this week I wrote about the Linley Data Center Conference and how Thermal is the New Power. With perfect timing, also earlier this week, Microsoft announced the existence of project Natick to submerge a datacenter, a sort of datacenter in a can...

For some time now, SoC design groups have had to optimize PPA: performance, power and area. These are tradeoffs. For example, if you increase the clock frequency then you will get higher performance (better) but also higher power (worse), and perhaps...

Next week, February 9-10, is the Linley Data Center Conference in the Santa Clara Hyatt, which hopefully will be cleared of Superbowl madness by then. It is one of four conferences that the Linley Group runs each year. Named after Linley Gwenapp (whose...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Chris Rowen explains how convolutional neural networks (CNNs) map onto the high-performance Tensilica Vision P5 DSP. He describes the benefits that the programmability brings, giving the flexibility needed for the ongoing development of these algorithms alongside the more traditional image processing and computer vision applications.

https://youtu.be/wZbSliO3Fh8