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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...

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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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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…