tag: Cadence

The Data Deluge
By Ed Sperling - 23 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Lip-Bu Tan, president and CEO of Cadence, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss the intersection of big data and technology, from the data center to the edge and vertical markets such as automotive. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: What are the biggest changes you've seen over the past year? Tan: We are moving quickly toward data-driven economics. There... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 23
By Jesse Allen - 23 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Taylor Armerding investigates what's happened with the Stuxnet malware since 2010, when it destroyed hundreds of centrifuges at an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility. Cadence's Paul McLellan provides an update on the current state of EUV and what's needed to make high-volume manufacturing possible. In a video, Mentor's Colin Walls explains software's role in embedded system pow... » read more

Power Issues Rising For New Applications
By Ann Mutschler - 21 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Managing power in chips is becoming more difficult across a wide range of applications and process nodes, forcing chipmakers and systems companies to rethink their power strategies and address problems much earlier than in the past. While power has long been a major focus in the mobile space, power-related issues now are spreading well beyond phones and laptop computers. There are several re... » read more

Taming Concurrency
By Brian Bailey - 17 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 2

Concurrency adds complexity for which the industry lacks appropriate tools, and the problem has grown to the point where errors can creep into designs with no easy or consistent way to detect them. In the past, when chips were essentially a single pipeline, this wasn't a problem. In fact, the early pioneers of EDA created a suitable language to describe and contain the necessary concurrency ... » read more

Mostly Upbeat Outlook For Chips
By Brian Bailey - 17 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 1

2019 has started with cautious optimism for the semiconductor industry, despite dark clouds that dot the horizon. Market segments such as cryptocurrencies and virtual reality are not living up to expectations, the market for smart phones appears to be saturated, and DRAM prices are dropping, leading to cut-backs in capital expenditures. EDA companies are talking about sales to China being pu... » read more

Process Variation And Aging
By Ann Mutschler - 17 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss design reliability and circuit aging with João Geada, chief technologist for the semiconductor business unit at ANSYS; Hany Elhak, product management director, simulation and characterization in the custom IC and PCB group at Cadence; Christoph Sohrmann, advanced physical verification at Fraunhofer EAS; and Naseer Khan, vice president of sales at M... » read more

Developing Smarter, Safer Cars with ADAS IP
By Cadence - 16 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

By Charles Qi, Sr. Design Engineering Architect, and Neil Robinson, Product Marketing Director, IP Group, Cadence Today’s cars are a full-fledged electronic system on wheels, where every part is interrelated and must be designed, optimized, and verified simultaneously. As a result, it’s important to apply a holistic approach when developing automotive systems, taking into consideration t... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 16
By Jesse Allen - 16 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Mentor's Harry Foster takes a look at how quickly FPGAs are adopting recent verification techniques, with formal gaining at a rapid pace. Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out the details of two new RISC-V based cores: Western Digital's open source SweRV and Esperanto's Maxion. Synopsys' Taylor Armerding digs into a recent cybersecurity report from the U.S. government and finds a troubling n... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 11 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

M&A QuickLogic acquired SensiML Corporation. Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from Intel, SensiML provides a Software-as-a-Service suite for developing pattern matching sensor algorithms optimized for ultra-low power consumption using machine learning. Details of the deal were not disclosed, though QuickLogic will fund it with shares of common stock. IP CEVA debuted an all-purpose, hybrid... » read more

IoT Merging Into Data-Driven Design
By Ed Sperling and Kevin Fogarty - 10 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

The Internet of Things is becoming more difficult to define and utilize for an effective business strategy. While an increasing number devices send data to the cloud or some local server, so much data is being generated and moved around that new strategies are being developed to rethink what needs to be processed where. Back in 2013, when the IoT concept really began taking off, connectivity... » read more

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