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Designing complex, mixed-signal IPs is extremely challenging. Traditionally, timing is verified using measurements extracted from dynamic simulations. However, as this is vector-dependent, it relies heavily on designer expertise to select the correct set of critical paths. Often, this approach does not cover all the necessary timing checks across all operational modes and process corners. Failing …
If you are working on complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) or Deep Learning (DL) designs using advanced node processes, you will understand the motivations for optimising CPU utilisation, device power and processing speed. Cutting-edge AI, ML & DL chips, by their very nature, are susceptible to intra-die process variability. Designers are often …
The explosion of AI and pervasive intelligence has created an exponential demand for increasing compute power, best addressed using GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) and FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). This is accomplished by providing a HW platform that runs computationally intensive machine learning algorithms fast and efficiently. That said, both GPU and FPGA vendors have …
Integrated Circuit packaging has always been integral to IC performance and functionality. An IC package serves many purposes: (1) pitch conversion between the fine features of the IC die and the system level interconnection, (2) chemical, environmental and mechanical protection, (3) heat transfer, (4) power, ground and signal distribution between the die and system, (5) …
RESCHEDULED From here, anywhere Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience April 28-29 Immerse yourself in our free virtual event and find your inspiration at the intersection of choice and potential. Register now Open source means choice, and your choices reveal many possible paths. Wherever you want to go, Red Hat® Summit can show you the way. …
High performance power transistors are used in power management ICs, where switching behavior is extremely important. However, due to their large distributed gate and active area structure, accurately simulating switching activity to improve performance and minimize switching power loss can be challenging. Uncorrected current crowding from nonuniform current flows can cause chip failures and reliability …
April 28, 2020 11 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT Venue: Online In recent years, materials have emerged as a focus of architectural pedagogy. Beyond teaching students to think of materials in architecture as part of the design process, the ambition here is bolder: To design architecture means to design materials. Conversely, materials in architecture …
Semiconductor and integrated circuit developments continue to proceed at an incredible pace. For example, today’s microprocessor chips have one thousand times the processing power of those a decade ago. These challenges have been accomplished because of the integrated circuit industry’s ability to track something known as Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law states that an integrated circuit’s …
Today people make chips with 10 billion transistors and no-one thinks anything of it. But there was a day (Or more correctly a decade) when we couldn’t make even one transistor reliably. How did we start there and get where we are today? Who were the players? What did they do? John East is a …
The concept of edge computing—putting low power servers close to the application instead of relying solely on “the cloud”--may not be a novel idea, but for 5G and the Internet of Things, adding AI capabilities to edge computing will be revolutionary. SoC designs will need to provide distributed intelligence in hardware to reduce energy use, …
Overview Electromigration (EM) has a major impact on IC reliability and lifespan. Long a concern for automotive, aerospace, and healthcare, EM is now a challenge for the entire microelectronics industry as we move to lower process nodes. To address this concern, Cadence built upon its electrically aware design (EAD) technology to create, simulation-driven routing (SDR). …
Important information regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus): The health and safety of all attendees at Ansys events is of paramount importance. While we remain optimistic that this event will occur as planned, we urge you to regularly check this pagefor updates or cancellations. We are actively monitoring updates and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and …
Important information regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus): The health and safety of all attendees at Ansys events is of paramount importance. While we remain optimistic that this event will occur as planned, we urge you to regularly check this pagefor updates or cancellations. We are actively monitoring updates and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and …
Important information regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus): The health and safety of all attendees at Ansys events is of paramount importance. While we remain optimistic that this event will occur as planned, we urge you to regularly check this pagefor updates or cancellations. We are actively monitoring updates and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and …
Important information regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus): The health and safety of all attendees at Ansys events is of paramount importance. While we remain optimistic that this event will occur as planned, we urge you to regularly check this pagefor updates or cancellations. We are actively monitoring updates and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and …
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:00 AM 11:00 AM Big challenge of electronics cooling is the geometry complexity we deal with. In this webinar we demonstrate a number of new features that makes it faster and easier to setup simulations in ANSYS ICEPAK. This is especially true for more complex geometries. Come and learn the latest tips …
May 12, 2020 11:00 AM (EDT) Venue: Online This webinar will describe how ANSYS Discovery is replacing traditional CAD technologies with direct editing and a modern UI that is fast, easy and intuitive to learn. Discovery can import, repair and modify files from any CAD system, including the native CAD files or the generic files …
The preeminent event for practical, deployable computer vision and visual AI, for product creators who want to bring visual intelligence to products. The Summit attracts a global audience of companies developing vision-enabled products including embedded systems, cloud solutions and mobile applications. Register Today Learn Our program features 100+ speakers presenting on the latest applications, techniques, technologies, and …
WaveDrom is the tool that renders hardware engineering diagrams from textual descriptions. Timing, Bit-field, and Logic diagrams are among the most popular datasheet illustrations. WaveJSON description can be handcrafted or produced from HW or system metadata. WaveDrom is OpenSource and widely used in industry and education. This presentation includes current status, recently added features, and …
May 20, 2020 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (BST) Venue: The Engine Rooms at Birchwood Park 101 Faraday Street Risley Warrington WA3 6YN United Kingdom Contact: Claire Nundy claire.nundy@ansys.com Please join us at this complimentary Ansys Fluids Innovation Conference in Warrington on Wednesday 20 May 2020. Don't miss the chance to: Gain insight into Ansys …
Important information regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus): The health and safety of all attendees at Ansys events is of paramount importance. While we remain optimistic that this event will occur as planned, we urge you to regularly check this pagefor updates or cancellations. We are actively monitoring updates and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and …
The explosion of AI and pervasive intelligence has created an exponential demand for increasing compute power, best addressed using GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) and FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). This is accomplished by providing an HW platform that runs computationally intensive machine learning algorithms fast and efficiently. That said, both GPU and FPGA vendors have …
18th INTERNATIONAL ICING COURSE Simulation Methods (CbA) for the In-flight Icing Certification of Aircraft, Rotorcraft and Jet Engines Montreal, Canada Tuesday May 26 to Friday May 29, 2020 Come and See Icing Certification-by-Analysis Tools in Practice For an aircraft, rotorcraft or jet engine to obtain a type design certification, it must be demonstrated that it …
With the advent of the new Portable Test and Stimulus standard from Accellera, one of the most asked questions we hear is, "will Portable Stimulus replace UVM?" The answer is absolutely not. Portable Stimulus was conceived from the ground up to take advantage of UVM as one of the possible realization platforms for which tools …
May 26th at 10:00 AM PST In this session, we will be going over basic geometry preparation for CFD analyses using ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler. We will be demonstrating the functionalities of main tools in SpaceClaim for CFD geometry pre-processing. Some of the important steps that we will cover include: Repairing an imported CAD model in …
May 26, 2020 10:30 AM (IST) Venue: Online The concept of eigenstrain is a link between solid mechanics and other physical phenomena which cause a change of shape or dimension in a material. These include plasticity, creep, vacancy-assisted deformation, twinning, thermal expansion, dimensional changes due to phase transformation and curing, etc. Although these physical phenomena …
May 26, 2020 11:00 AM (EDT) / 3:00 PM (GMT) Venue: Online The Ansys Fluent adjoint solver is an automated, smart shape-optimization tool that has seen many advances in recent years, including improvements in robustness, applicable physics, morphing capabilities and usability. This webinar will focus on recent developments, which include: A full shape-optimization workflow Multi-objective …
May 26, 2020 11:00 AM (EDT) Venue: Online Featuring high usability by providing nonlinear functions, Multiscale.Sim is a fully compatible add-in tool, embedded in the Ansys Workbench environment. Helping you design composite materials such as fiber or filler, reinforced plastic, porous, lattice and honeycomb, Multiscale.Sim enables you to understand macroscopic material behavior and material constants …
Good news is – Anyone from any part of the world at any time-zones can join. It is open 24hrs between 27th May to 31st May. So, you can enter and exit whenever you are comfortable
The 2020 pandemic has hyper accelerated the move to digital content so the multi-billion dollar question is: How do we thrive during this transition? In this webinar you will learn: • What tools and resources are available • How to repurpose your live event budget for maximum impact • How to create great content • …
Date and Time Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Time: 10:00am - 11:00am (PDT) Providing the best alternative to advanced monolithic SoCs, multi-chiplet packages have become a very attractive option for the next generation of cost-sensitive designs. However, as many engineers begin to realize the benefits of a multi-chiplet packaging approach, including 3D stacking, they are struggling …
May 27, 2020 11:30 AM (IST) Venue: Online Thousands of universities around the world use Ansys academic engineering simulation software to help undergraduate students learn physics principles; researchers to solve complex engineering problems; and postgraduate students to produce data for their master’s theses or doctoral dissertations. Whether teaching fluids concepts to undergraduates or performing research …
May 27, 2020 11 AM (EDT) / 3 PM (GMT) Venue: Online Given the overwhelming demand for practical and affordable electric vehicle (EV) designs, the world’s automakers are racing to launch new EV models. Many of the engineering challenges surrounding EVs center on the electric battery and its management system. Batteries need to charge efficiently, …
May 27, 2020 11:00 AM (EDT) / 3:00 PM (GMT) Venue: Online Learn how to maintain and improve reliability, durability and safety for turbomachinery applications by performing high-fidelity aeromechanical simulations. Blade flutter and forced response, including mistuning, are important aspects of aeromechanical analysis. Ansys has core technologies that enable faster and streamlined aeromechanical workflows, including: …
Overview We have witnessed an exponential growth in the complexity of chips. Today’s SoCs combine so many functions that a large design team is required to create layouts of different blocks. In addition, current design data management and underlying Unix file systems limit only one person at a time to work on an individual cell-view, …
Register For This Web Seminar Online - May 28, 2020 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM US/Pacific Convert to Local Time Register Overview Are you considering leveraging the cost saving benefits of RISC-V in your next design? The RISC-V processor architecture is revolutionizing the business model for deployment of architectures in the embedded systems marketplace. While …
As part of the Mont Blanc 2020, European scalable, modular and power efficient HPC processor, ATOS designs and implements a NoC which includes NoC Xpoints, Protocol agents and system cache. Our Network on Chip (NoC) is based on basic Xpoint modules which are connected to each other to make a scalable NoC. Each Xpoint module …
Learn how you can use the Cadence® AWR Design Environment® platform to create 5G technology. Gain an understanding of how AWR® software can be used to design state-of-the-art circuitry, develop phased array antenna systems, create communication link systems, and more. The webinar is segmented into different aspects of 5G design: Amplifier design – Mobile and baseband 5G applications …
May 28, 2020 11 AM (EDT) / 3 PM (GMT) Venue: Online Businesses have always tried to capitalize on the value of predictive maintenance, but lacking the ability to see inside their working product systems — and to analyze the real physical effects of vibration, wear and other stresses — companies have tended to hedge …
Overview Highly complex structures found in Rigid-flex PCBs, stacked-die IC packages, connectors and cables must be modeled accurately in 3D for structure optimization and high-speed signaling compliance. High-speed signaling, such as in 112G SerDes interfaces, relies on high-fidelity interconnect design. Any slight change in impedance can negatively impact bit error rate, so optimization entails extensive …
May 29, 2020 10:30 AM (IST) Venue: Online Typically, there are five significant losses in a motor: stator copper loss, rotor copper loss, core loss, friction-windage loss and stray losses. Among these five, the one which is least analyzed, yet very significant (about 15% of total losses of the motor) is the stray loss (SL). In this …
May 29, 2020 11:30 AM (IST) Venue: Online Ansys Motion is a dedicated multibody dynamics (MBD) tool with a robust contact algorithm and tightly integrated rigid and flexible solver. It is adept at handling large degree-of-freedom systems, providing a reliable and fast solution. Additionally, Ansys Motion has specialized toolkits prepared for easy pre- and post-processing …
About this Event Event: CASPA Spring Online Workshop (华美半导体协会春季线上讲座) Topic: Semiconductor Investment and Technology Trends under COVID-19 Pandemic Venue: Online (this event will be broadcast to you through Cisco Webex Conference) Date and time: US Pacific time: 5/30/2020, 5:00PM to 7:40PM China Beijing Time: 5/31/2020, 8:00AM to 10:40AM Agenda: US Pacific Time Topics 5:00PM – …
Paul Whatmough (Arm Research/Harvard), Marco Donato (Harvard), Glenn Ko (Harvard), Sae-Kyu Lee (IBM Research), David Brooks (Harvard), and Gu-Yeon Wei (Harvard) Updates CHIPKIT @ISCA’20 31st May 2020, 10am-1pm EDT - Live Q&A session. Pre-recorded videos available during the conference via the Whova app. Register for tutorial Overview Research test chips are the ultimate experiment to demonstrate the true value of novel computer architecture innovations. They are …
Overview As typical system-on-chip designs grow larger and move to the latest FinFET process nodes, clocking constraints become ever more complex. The Cadence® Innovus™ Implementation System’s CCOpt™ useful skew optimization engine is a powerful tool to close the timing on the latest high-speed designs. Understanding and managing insertion delay is an important part of clock …
About COMPUTEX Established in 1981, COMPUTEX TAIPEI (also called COMPUTEX) is the leading global ICT and IoT show with a complete supply chain and ecosystems. Co-organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taipei Computer Association (TCA), COMPUTEX, based upon Taiwan’s complete ICT clusters, covers the whole spectrum of ICT industry, from established …
Register For This Web Seminar Online - Jun 2, 2020 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM US/Pacific Register Overview Intuitive and easy to use, Visualizer Debug Environment automates debugging for the digital design and verification of today's complex SoCs and FPGAs. Find problems in your UVM testbench faster using Visualizer Debug Environment, a high-performance, high-capacity debugger. …
Learn why eFPGA adoption is taking off. eFPGA is now widely available; has been used in dozens of chips and is being designed into dozens more; and has an increasing list of benefits for a range of applications. Embedded FPGA, or eFPGA, enables your SoC to have flexibility in critical areas where algorithm, protocol or …
June 2, 2020 11 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT Venue: Online SusCritMat is a European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) RawMaterials funded education project which develops teaching modules on critical raw materials and their sustainable management, taking into account the different perspectives as well as the entire value chain. This webinar will present …
Overview As designs grow in complexity, rigorous formal verification is essential to meet aggressive requirements for power, performance, area, and time to market. Equivalence checking, static verification, automated ECO, and constraint design for clock domain crossing (CDC) are some of the challenges that signoff designers have to consider. Join this quarterly webinar on Cadence® Conformal® …
June 2, 2020 11:30 AM (IST) Venue: Online Accuracy and solution time are two of the most critical concerns in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation, and both greatly depend on the characteristics of the mesh. Different types of meshing elements are needed to deliver optimal performance in resolving unique geometries and flow regimes. Ansys is …
Due to Covid-19 the 70th ECTC is now a virtual event with no registration fee. Enjoy over 400 on demand presentation on the latest packaging technologies. Do not miss Dr Doug Yu of TSMC keynote presentation.
June 3, 2020 10:00 AM (EDT) / 2:00 PM (GMT) Venue: Online Automating the optimization of engineering structures or systems could save you considerable material cost and planning time. We will show you how to set up such an automated analysis for a machine tool part simulated with Ansys Mechanical. Using sensitivity analysis and meta-modeling …
June 3, 2020 11:00 AM EDT / 3:00 PM GDT Venue: Online In the electronics industry, the quality and reliability of a printed circuit board (PCB) is highly dependent upon the capabilities of the PCB fabrication suppliers. As such, the design engineer needs to understand the processes involved in designing and fabricating circuit boards in …
June 3, 2020 11:30 AM (IST) Venue: Online Ansys LS-DYNA is a general-purpose finite element software solution capable of simulating complex, real-world problems such as impact and crash related problems in automotive industries, as well as blade containment, bird strike, metal forming, fluid splashing, metal cutting, blast and biomechanics in other industries. In a given …
Register For This Web Seminar Online - Jun 3, 2020 14:00 - 15:00 Europe/Berlin Register Overview Complex testing and methodology with complex silicon require powerful but simple to use debug solutions. The Visualizer Debug Environment provides a common debug solution for simulation, emulation and other engines, including Verilog, VHDL, UVM, SystemC, C/C++, Assertions and Coverage. …
Thu, Jun 4, 2020 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MDT Many analytical chemistry techniques can aid in electronic failure analysis. Analytical chemistry techniques collect atomic or molecular information from samples, which help identify contamination or materials used. Key concepts discussed in this webinar include the exact chemical information each technique collects, the risks of an …
Register For This Web Seminar Online - Jun 4, 2020 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM US/Pacific Register Overview There many things to considers when moving to Linux for embedded projects. Based on pragmatic experience of helping customers through the decision-making process and the actual transition, this webinar provides practical information, so developers can be fully …
Date/Time: Thursday, June 4 10:00am PDT Presenter: Dr. Tero Kiuru, VTT This web presentation covers the design of a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) MIMO radar system with Cadence® AWR Design Environment® software. The purpose of the system is for short-range high-resolution localization of nearby moving objects. Four-channel transmitter and receiver chips are designed using a 130nm SiGe process. …
June 4, 2020 10:30 AM (EDT) Venue: Online Ansys RaptorH adds to Ansys’ comprehensive set of electromagnetic (EM) field solver modeling capabilities, which extend from devices to chips to full electronics systems. The enhanced on-silicon EM simulation now includes the Ansys HFSS gold-standard engine integrated into an easy-to-use interface for chip designers, while maintaining the …
June 4, 2020 11 AM (EDT) /3 PM (GMT) Venue: Online Hydraulic systems must perform as designed, especially in safety-critical applications. Ansys Twin Builder can help you easily and more efficiently design hydraulic systems that will operate as expected, and reduce your design efforts and time to market. This webinar covers the modeling of hydraulic …
Register For This Web Seminar Online - Jun 5, 2020 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM US/Pacific Register Overview Chris Spear, Principle Instructor, presents a detailed description of the various array types in the SystemVerilog language, and how to pick the right ones for your testbench. SystemVerilog has many dynamic data types, and you will learn …
June 5, 2020 11.00 am (BST) Venue: Online Contact: uk-marketing@ansys.com 0114 281 8888 Ansys Fluent is Ansys' flagship product for multi-purpose CFD simulation and is famed for its advanced physics, solver accuracy and wide-ranging applicability to many different fluid flow applications. The 2020 release of Ansys Fluent brings further advances in solver functionality. Hundreds of …
