Modern simulators map logic designs into software to compile for native execution on target hardware. Can this compile step be further optimized? Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and now Silvaco CTO) and I continue our series on research ideas.… Read More
Cadence Paints a Broad Canvas in Automotive
Cadence recently launched a webinar series on trends and challenges in automotive design. They contribute through IP from their Silicon Solutions Group, a comprehensive spectrum of design tooling and through collaborative development within a wide partner ecosystem. This collaboration aims to support and advance progress… Read More
Podcast EP262: How AI is Changing Semiconductor Design with Rob Knoth
Dan is joined by Rob Knoth, Solutions Architect in the Strategy and New Ventures group at Cadence. He is a technologist focusing on corporate strategy and the interfaces between domain specific solutions. A key area of expertise is the digital implementation of safety critical and high reliability systems. He has extensive experience… Read More
Analog IC Migration using AI
My first job out of college was migrating a DRAM chip from one process node to a newer node, and it was a 100% manual process that required many months of effort. That need to migrate semiconductor IP to newer nodes is still with us today, and much automation has been applied to digital circuits, however migrating analog IP has proven… Read More
The Next LLM Architecture? Innovation in Verification
LLMs have amazing capabilities but inference run times grow rapidly with the size of the input (prompt) sequence, a significant weakness for some applications in engineering. State space models (SSMs) aim to correct this weakness. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur,… Read More
Emerging Growth Opportunity for Women in AI
I was invited to the Fem.AI conference in Menlo Park, the first sponsored by the Cadence Giving Foundation with a goal to promote increased participation of women in the tech sector, especially in AI. Not just for equity, also to grow the number of people entering the tech/AI workforce. There are countless surveys showing that demand… Read More
Podcast EP255: The Growing Proliferation of Semiconductors and AI in Cars with Amol Borkar
Dan is joined by Amol Borkar, Product Marketing Director at Cadence. Since joining in 2018 as a senior product manager, he has led the development of many successful hardware and software products, including Tensilica’s latest Vision 331 and Vision 341 DSPs and 4DR accelerator targeted for various vision, automotive and AI edge… Read More
Addressing Reliability and Safety of Power Modules for Electric Vehicles
As electric vehicles (EVs) gain widespread adoption, safety, reliability, and efficiency are becoming increasingly important. A crucial component in ensuring these aspects is the power module (PM), which manages the energy flow between the EV battery and the motor. The design of these power modules must not only meet the high-performance… Read More
SI and PI Update from Cadence on Sigrity X
Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) issues are critical to analyze, ensuring the proper operation of PCB systems and IC packages, yet the computational demands from EDA tools can cause engineers to only analyze what they deem are critical signals, instead of the entire system. Cadence has managed to overcome this SI/PI… Read More
Advanced Audio Tightens Integration to Implementation
You might think that in the sensing world all the action is in imaging and audio is a backwater. While imaging features continue to evolve, audio innovations may be accelerating even faster to serve multiple emerging demands: active noise cancellation, projecting a sound stage from multiple speakers, 3D audio and ambisonics,… Read More