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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

What happens when you challenge a group of electrical and computer engineering students to come up with the most innovative and imaginative product with just a handful of electronic parts, miscellaneous items, limited funding and tight deadlines?  Bui...

Today Cadence announced the latest product in the "us" series of next-generation tools for leading-edge nodes, the Modus Test Solution. I always think that test gets treated as a second-class citizen, but in fact it is a major contributor to the cost...

Documentation plays a significant role in helping to understand the software. Cadence is putting in lots of effort in developing different forms of documentation, from product manuals to videos, application notes, tutorials, Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs), and point solutions. We are kicking off a new series to highlight interesting and useful content which gets added to Cadence Online Support.

Types of documents on Cadence…

Here at Cadence we are very proud to provide internships to students and graduates, and offer them the opportunity to develop skills within a successful and dynamic workplace. Here are three accounts from previous IT interns who have now progressed into...

We enjoyed sharing our latest news with the many people who visited our booth at this year's DesignCon, showing our demonstration of PCIe 4.0 carried on a 16Gbps Multi-Protocol PHY. You can see some of the demo in this ChipEstimate.TV video.

Visitors most valued the performance of the 16Gbps Multi-Link PHY. In addition, attendees were very interested in:

• PCIe 4.0 and 10G-KR support: Yes! Our product does support…

There is a law in business organization known as Conway's Law. This states that:

Organizations which design systems...are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

The law was stated...

Moore's Law is in the news again since Intel, having maintained for years that nothing is slowing down, finally showed what they really think. It is a golden rule in economics to look at what people do and not what they say, what is known as "revealed...

Abu Dhabi, the capitol of United Arab Emirates (UAE), has a vibrant academic scene with respect to microelectronics. The founder of UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, was convinced that, "the best investment of our wealth is in creating cultured and...

I always find DesignCon a slightly weird conference to attend. I swim in the semiconductor world like a fish swimming in the ocean, and I rarely notice there is land out there too. DesignCon is the conference beyond the chip, about boards. To the extent...

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen takes a closer look at the key metrics for embedded neural networks and what today's devices need to do to collect this sophisticated data.

https://youtu.be/2m9-qRlhGLQ

The current 16.6 HotFix now provides support for the Altium to Allegro PCB Editor Translator. The translator will convert both PCB and schematic files into Allegro PCB Editor and Allegro Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) files. Look to a future HotFix for the availability of the Altium to OrCAD Capture schematic translator.

In Allegro PCB Editor under the File menu select Import,…

You can't go for very long without hearing about the Internet of Things (IoT) in general, and wearables in particular. The biggest segment of wearables is fitness trackers that measure your activity, sleep patterns, heart rate, and perhaps other things...

At IEDM in December, there was a full-day course looking at the options for transistors and interconnect for the 5nm node. The academics opened the show with Mark Lundstrom presenting on behalf of a team from Purdue, MIT, and NYU on Device Options and...