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Picture this: Your new hire has completed their mandatory HR training and now needs to ramp up quickly in the tools and technologies that will make them productive. What online courses do you suggest and from where? 

Or, you ARE the new hire and are feeling a bit lost. You need to ramp up the tools and technologies used in your group and start being productive. You want to demonstrate initiative by finding the resources…

Silicon Photonics has the potential to revolutionize many industries. Photonics, the science and technology of generating, controlling, and detecting light, has moved into mainstream electronic designs. This is particularly true for communications hardware, where bandwidth demands are so great that only photonic ICs (PICs) offer a viable solution. Other key application areas include data centers, antenna and RF systems…

Testing digital IC designs is crucial for several reasons, including cost savings, time efficiency, and the removal of inefficiencies. Testing is an essential step to ensure the accuracy and robustness of modern chips. Despite its importance, there are several reasons why testing might not always be as thorough as it should be: one major reason is that your design is not testable.

The Cadence Test solution, with tight…

Equivalence checking is a formal verification technique used to prove that two designs behave identically. It's particularly useful in electronic design automation (EDA) for designing integrated circuits. Here's a breakdown of the comparison process:

• Setup: Two designs are loaded into the equivalence checker. One…

This course, "C++ Fundamentals for Design and Verification v24.03" provides an introduction to the C++ programming language for those who want to use C++ for design or verification. 

To optimally benefit from this course, you must already have sufficient knowledge of the C programming language to be capable of writing non-trivial C programs. Hence, this training provides a module on “C Language Review” to help…

As younger PCB designers enter the workforce, design teams are looking for ways to empower the designer with more responsibility. “Shifting left” some of the signal and power integrity (SI/PI) analysis responsibilities is a natural choice, but today’s designers want easier-to-use tools before taking on such tasks.

How can we use new methodologies to more efficiently and quickly analyze the designs? How…

USB4 Version 2.0 specification was released by the USB Promoter Group two years back. This specification enables up to 80 Gbps link speed per direction in symmetric mode and 120 Gbps link speed in asymmetric mode.

Here, we take an overview of the low power entry and exit flows in Gen4 link speed and how they have been simplified as compared to that in Gen2/Gen3 link speed.

In Gen4, the low power entry has been made uni…