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To support academia using the latest industry-standard tools, Cadence's Genus Synthesis Solution has been made available to universities. If you want to use the Genus solution, please contact the Cadence university partner in your region or write an email...

Most, if not all, designs which are being verified today are configurable. This is just a fact of life, with companies trying to reuse as much IP as possible in multiple different projects, or iterations of the same project. The requirements change as well (sometimes too often) and the interface protocols are getting more elaborate and layered. Just have a look at the table below:

(Ref: http://www.3gpp.org The Mobile…

The most important new connector in town (especially if that town was Las Vegas during CES) is the new USB Type-C connector. The reason it is so important is that it has the potential to be the universal connector. Of course it replaces the old USB Type...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Neil Robinson follows up on last week's “SSD Controller Basics and Trends” video to show how optimizing Tensilica processors for use in SSD controllers meets the high performance and low energy consumption trend and yet provides full flexibility through programmability with lower development risk.

https://youtu.be/5CvplrV6oa4

On February 9, Cadence is hosting an all-day Embedded Neural Network Summit., with a focus on "Extending Deep Learning into Mass-Market Silicon." It will take place in the building 10 auditorium on the Cadence campus at 2655 Seely Avenue, San...

PCIe Gen4 is bringing new possibilities to servers and virtualization. The interface increases the bandwidth and value of data transmission from server to server, switch to switch, and server to storage, enabling even larger dataset analysis and other complex cloud services.

High-speed SerDes technology is used to implement these high-speed connections, often at advanced nodes such as 14/16nm. To be sure, it's becoming…

In any advanced node, one of the most important pieces of IP is a high-performance SerDes PHY. Of course, what counts as high-performance depends on the node. At the current 16nm node, 16Gbps is the sweet spot. The reason that SerDes is so important is...

Mobile Unleashed is subtitled The Origin and Evolution of ARM Processors in Our Devices. It is by Don Dingee and Dan Nenni (my collaborator on our book Fabless). They even persuaded Sir Robin Saxby, ARM's founding CEO, to write the foreword. It is not...

Cadence was at CES last week showing the most recent additions to their vision, audio, and USB IP solutions. Sometimes these types of shows seem a little bit like the nursery rhyme:

This is the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt,
That lay in...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Neil Robinson talks about SSD controllers, showing the functionality basics and trends for increasing the performance and lowering the energy consumed while adding more processors for flexibility.

https://youtu.be/bu4saRek7QM

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…