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I sat down with Simon Segars, the CEO of ARM last Friday. As I said yesterday, it is ARM's 25th birthday this week, on Friday if you want the precise date. Although today, of course, we think of even the largest ARM processors as something to embed in...

This week is ARM's 25th anniversary. It is actually on Friday, the 27th, but since that is the Friday after Thanksgiving I figured publishing this blog on the precise day was probably less important than picking a day that people might actually see it...

How often has this happened to you?  You are re-using a part of a previous design in your new design, you are in the depths of coverage closure, both functional and design code coverage. You discover that many parts of the re-used design are actually not applicable in the new design, and you manually exclude those RTL lines of code. But wait – there is another design change, and your RTL now has been shifted around, the…

Marie Pistilli, who was injured in a car-crash in October (as I included in my first blog on my first day at Cadence). The crash left her largely paralyzed. She passed away on November 14th. Although she had retired, she was one of the driving forces...

When second generation cell-phone technology, GSM, was developed the biggest issue was keeping the computational load manageable for the semiconductor technology of the time. That was the most important resource to optimize. Now, in the LTE era, the efficiency...

At SEMICON West this year, I attended an interesting presentation by Steven Forrest of the University of Michigan on Moving Innovation from the Lab to the Marketplace. He said that one of the biggest problems is that universities all have offices of technology...

Wow! There is an extremely powerful option available for PCB designers in the 16.6 - 2015 Allegro PCB Editor release—the Allegro PCB Designer Manufacturing Option. This option is integrated into the Allegro PCB Editor.

As you’ll read in our “What’s New” section, “The Allegro PCB Designer Manufacturing Option is a comprehensive, powerful, easy-to-use suite of tools that makes it efficient for PCB…

Last week Cadence put out a press release that the Cadence implementation flow had been qualified on the GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX process. At ARM TechCon last week, Joerg Winkler and Tamer Ragheb from the design enablement group of GLOBALFOUNDRIES in Dresden...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses the basic principles of deep learning and how it enables the building of electronic systems that analyze massive amounts of data, recognize patterns, and extract relevant information from speech, images, and social network traffic.

https://youtu.be/9KLkndHw5Y8

Open source software is software where the source code is fairly freely available. I say "fairly" since there are almost always restrictions on its use to ensure that it continues to be open source and often that improvements made must contributed back...

If you put together your dream emulation system, it would have:

• Infinite throughput
• Scalability from small blocks to the largest SoC your company will work on
• Very low total cost of ownership (small physical size, consumes little power, cost amortizable...

How's that for a click-bait title? But it's true. Back in 1969, the British government created the Open University, or OU. This was a university intended to democratize university education by offering degrees mainly to people who already had a job and...

Ethernet was invented at the legendary Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, based on earlier ideas from ALOHAnet developed at the University of Hawaii (memo to my boss: I think I need to make an onsite visit to check...

Mike Muller, ARM's CTO, delivered a little history and a lot of security. Oh, and he announced a new ARM processor and a new instruction set.

First, the history. In a couple of weeks' time is the 25th anniversary of the creation of ARM. I was there...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Lou Ternullo explains the challenges of designing with QSPI interfaces at higher speeds.

https://youtu.be/Pnhxo9oXdvA

Coming back from the PCI-SIG Developer Conference Asia-Pacific Tour 2015 in Japan, and the PCI Compliance Workshop in Taipei, it was encouraging to see the engineers’ high level of interest in PCIe 4.0.

The engineers attending the conference and workshop in general were all in good moods, I wondered if it was reflective of the quality of the food that was being served to those in attendance. In Tokyo, the PCI-SIG…

The 16.6–2015 (also known as 16.6 QIR#9) Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) release contains upgraded capabilities for the Variant Editor – namely:

• Dynamic viewing of variants in the schematic editor
• Capturing variants on schematics
• Replacing a part with any other part using the Component Browser
• Support for hierarchical variants

Here are a couple videos detailing these new capabilities.

Read on for more details…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the hottest buzzword (buzzphrase?) in electronics right now. Everyone's definition is a little different, and each time I see a presentation on IoT the number of units goes up by a few more billion. Probably the most widely...

Let's pull a paragraph out of the joint Cadence/GF press release from earlier today.

Cadence collaborated with GLOBALFOUNDRIES on the development of the Process Design Kit (PDK) for the 22FDX platform. The Cadence digital implementation tools support...

In my first real blog here, about the Cadence/imec 5nm announcement, I asked what was 5nm on a 5nm process. The answer is nothing. Creating the lithography for 5nm is a major milestone but process naming has become very misleading.

It reminds me of that...

We recently held the annual Mixed Signal Technology Summit. I blogged about it and Christine Young covered the keynote. Cadence has had a leadership position in analog and mixed-signal design for a long time, even though originally the companies that...

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Charles Qi talks about automotive functional safety and reliability standards and its importance to the automobile industry and IP and software developers.

https://youtu.be/vwaiwsRIYf4