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CES is held in January each year. It is the largest conference in Las Vegas, which might make it the largest conference in the US. Last year 170,000 people attended and this year attendance is forecast to be greater than that.

It occupies the whole of...

David Axelrad, product marketing manager, SerDes IP, presents Cadence's position prior to the High Speed I/O IP panel discussion at the GSA IP Working Group meeting on Thursday, 22 October, 2015.

You can see his introductory presentation here, where he address major trends in high-speed SerDes:

1 – Speeds reaching 112Gbps

2 - Battery life, power consumption scales with data rate

3 – Consolidation of con…

One of the challenges with any new tool is to drive adoption. There really is a "he who goes first loses" dynamic to a new product. Any new product has potential maturity issues early on, so everyone is better off if they wait for other people to go first...

Yesterday it was Samsung's turn for a keynote at CES. Depending on exactly how you define consumer electronics, I think that they must be the biggest consumer electronics company in the world. For sure they are #1 in smartphones and I think that they...

Intel's CEO, Brian Krzanich, gave the opening keynote to CES on Tuesday night in the Venetian. Intel has a problem with this sort of occasion. They build chips. The chips go into things that are sexy but the chips themselves are not sexy. So Brian talked...

For he's a jolly good Fellow, for he's a jolly good Fellow...

Effective January 1, 2016, Chris Rowen, our CTO, became an IEEE Fellow with this citation:

"for leadership in the development of microprocessors and reduced instruction set computers"

The IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, and is bestowed upon a very limited number of Senior Members who have contributed importantly…

There has been lots of speculation, especially this year with the 50th anniversary of Moore's Law, as to whether it is over. This is not based on technical feasibility, nobody seriously doubts that we can go to at least 5nm without drastically changing...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Moshik Ruben takes a closer look at the MIPI CSI-2 2.0 protocol and how this latest specification addresses today's pressing issues such as bandwidth, internet of things (IoT), low power, automotive, and machine vision.

https://youtu.be/3-UW-6x1R80

The FPGA System Planner (FSP) 16.6-2015 release now provides support for multiple connectors as one “target set” object. The allows FSP to consider all connectors as one large connector during synthesis and the target sets can be connected in a daisy...

I won't even attempt to number the items this time, and I'll have to skip the individual bits of troubleshooting information (note to self: don't wait three months between blog posts). There has been a huge amount of content posted in the last three months of 2015.  A great deal of it covers the new features in the Virtuoso IC6.1.7 release, which came out at the end of November.  Be sure to check out all the new…

Yesterday's blog post was about the mobile market. But, increasingly, mobile is not just about handsets, but about cloud datacenters and the networking to get the data back and forth. Functions such as voice recognition or mapping depend on splitting...

"I'm goin mobile," The Who sang on one of the greatest albums of all time. Although it is not what they were talking about then, today mobile is the biggest market in the world, especially if you look at the bigger picture and include most of the Internet...

In the first two parts of the interview with Jeff Ravencraft, the President and COO of USB Implementers Forum, we learnt a lot about where USB is and where it’s headed. Certainly, this ambitious plan needs to meet the customers’ expectations for quality and interoperability to be successful.

In this third and last part of the interview at Cadence office, Jeff explains how the USB-IF makes sure the quality…

If it wasn’t for the fact that USB has always been spelled with capital letters, I would say that with the introduction of USB Type-C the organization behind all things USB—USB Implementers Forum—has truly earned for USB to be spelled with a capital letter (U stands for Universal). Maybe it should be also bold now?

We’re inviting you to view the second part of the interview Jeff Ravencraft, the President…

Starting Dec. 5^th, 11 PSATRI members attended a five-day workshop on the Cadence Virtuoso front-to-back flow. PSATRI stands for Prince Sultan Advanced Technology Research Institute, which is part of the King Saud University in Riad, Saudi Arabia. Attendees...

In case you don’t know, USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF, for short) is the organization behind all things USB. Its president and COO, Jeff Ravencraft, sat down in the Cadence video studio and answered our questions about the role of USB-IF in the industry and what’s cooking for the USB implementers and users.

With so many new possibilities that are opening for USB developers, Jeff did his best to keep it short…

Neils Bohr, the physicist (or should that be the quantum mechanic) famously said "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." The semiconductor industry, despite its incredible complexity, is easier to predict than many other industries...

So the lede is that Chris Rowen has been elected an IEEE Fellow. In a sense it is actually a group award, because he couldn't have achieved what he has without the teams that surrounded him, in most cases teams for which he assembled the key players himself...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses the inter-workings of neural networks, which are applied to a variety of data types for pattern recognition. Hear Chris explain what is happening computationally in the functioning of a neural network.

https://youtu.be/HfmJIsZY00o

The 16.6-2015 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) release contains a significant enhancement that allows traditional Project Manager-based designs to use the same database enabled Component Browser used in ADW projects. Yes, the Component Browser can read the ADW database when editing projects in a Project Manager (non-ADW) flow.

Some designers want to stay in a Project Manager flow using parts from the ADW library database…

EDAC's Emerging Companies Committee has been organizing evening seminars a couple of times a year in which Jim Hogan chats with someone with successful startup experience about what they did and what lessons they learned. Jim Hogan is today the principal...

IEDM is a meeting held annually since 1955. Historically, it has alternated between Washington DC and San Francisco every other year. However, this year was the last year that the meeting was held in DC and for the foreseeable future (they have dates...

I have been a skeptic about whether EUV was going to work. Just in case you have no idea what I'm talking about, EUV stands for extreme ultra-violet. For what seems like forever, we have been using 193nm wavelength light for lithography, eventually adding...

On October 27, the Cadence Academic Network organized the 1st Cadence Academic Workshop in Israel. More than 20 professors as well as PhDs and master students from five major Israeli universities attended the workshop at Bar Ilan University. The first...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, William Chen deep dives into the implementation of multi-link, multi-protocol PHY.

https://youtu.be/1nQ0XUw7oe4