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Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , IC Release Blog Announcement , Virtuoso
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Vision C5 DSP for Standalone Neural Network Processing

I pointed out recently that although La La Land is a romance, the movie opens with…

• 6 min read
DSP , Vision C5 , embedded vision , Embedded Vision Alliance , Tensilica , semiconductor IP , embedded vision conference , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Von Neumann's 5 Bottlenecks and CCIX - Part 1

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett traces the evolution of the…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , ccix

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Growth Comes from Solving New Problems—ESD Alliance CEO Panel

First, some sad news. Bob Gardner, for many years the executive director of the ESD…

• 12 min read
cadence , EDAC , arm holdings , ARM , synopsys , Breakfast Bytes , esd alliance , Mentor

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Microsoft CDNLive Keynote: Cloudy with a Chance of Chips

Traditionally at CDNLive Silicon Valley, the first keynote is given by Lip-Bu Tan…

• 7 min read
microsoft , deep learning , cloud , azure , CDNLive Silicon Valley , Breakfast Bytes

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The IRDS Panel at IRPS

Confused by those names? The conference is the International Reliability and Physics…

• 4 min read
irds , ITRS , international roadmap for devices and systems , irps , IEEE , Breakfast Bytes , rebooting computing

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Convolutional Neural Network Challenges

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Megha Daga takes a closer look at the…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , convolutional neural networks

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"The Safest Train Is One that Never Leaves the Station"

The Sunday and Monday at IRPS are tutorial days, with multiple tracks. On Monday…

• 7 min read
Automotive , functional safety , volkswagen , NVIDIA , sotif , ISO 26262 , Breakfast Bytes

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 1st to 5th 2017

https://youtu.be/n1uLybW0__s Coming from Millennium Park, Chicago (camera Jessamine…

• less than a min read
Physical verification , ieee 1800.2 , uvm , Genus , Embedded Vision Summit , pegasus , DRC , CDNLive EMEA , TSMC , via pillar , CDNLive Munich , Tensilica , design rule check , n7 , Innovus , cdnlive München , 7nm , vision processor

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The $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W

Roger Thornton of the Raspberry Pi foundation talked about designing their latest…

• 6 min read
Raspberry Pi , raspberry pi zero w , bluetooth , PCB design , WiFi , Breakfast Bytes , Allegro

Verification

SoC Verification with Portable Stimulus Using Perspec System Verifier

This year’s CDNLive San Jose was another gem. Many great keynotes, customer presentations…

• 2 min read
SoC verification , Perspec , perspec system verifier , Qualcomm , portable stimulus

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Software Isn't the S in SDE

System Design Enablement (SDE) is about designing optimal systems, focusing effort…

• 8 min read
SDE , open source , software , gcc , system design enablement , linux , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Run Point Selection -WYSIWYG

With Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler , it is easy to create setups…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Analog Simulation , analog , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Analog Design Environment , ViVA , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design

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CCIX Is Pronounced C6

Cache coherency has become a big issue as the architecture inside devices such as…

• 4 min read
GPU , ccix , cache coherency , offload processors , Breakfast Bytes , FPGA

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Ricardo's Difficult Idea

Today is an important anniversary. It is part of the explanation of why we design…

• 5 min read
ricardo , unemployment , trade , comparative advantage , david ricardo , Breakfast Bytes , technology

RF Engineering

Noise Simulation in Spectre RF Using Improved Pnoise/Hbnoise and Direct Plot Form…

Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM…

• 3 min read
HBnoise , HB , Spectre RF , pnoise , noise simulation , Virtuoso , RF design , pss

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 24th to 28th 2017

https://youtu.be/OttUOjIHJf0 Coming from the Cadence coffee bar (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
Automotive , microsoft , Raspberry Pi , CDNLive , cloud , raspberry pi zero w , EDAC , ISO 26262 , CDNLive Silicon Valley , ARM , synopsys , reliability , esd alliance , Mentor

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Autonomous Is the New Mobile: Linley on Cars

Cars are everywhere these days. It doesn't really matter what sort of event you attend…

• 7 min read
Intel , NXP , NVIDIA , Linley , mobileye , autonomous , Qualcomm , ISO 26262 , ADAS , visionpx , Breakfast Bytes

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We Live on a Radioactive Planet Bombarded by Cosmic Rays

We live on a radioactive planet bombarded by cosmic rays. As a result, high-energy…

• 5 min read
thermal neutrons , alpha particles , high energy neutrons , see , single event effects , Breakfast Bytes

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Developing Fingerprint Readers for Developing World Medicine

Every aspiring 7-year old detective knows that fingerprints are unique. I actually…

• 4 min read
security , biometric , fingerprint , OrCAD , PCB design , Breakfast Bytes , simprints , Allegro
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