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Mentor User2User Virtual Event 2020!

Mentor User2User Virtual Event 2020!
by Daniel Nenni on 10-30-2020 at 6:00 am

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Now that we have gone virtual, life has never been easier, for me anyway. There are literally events every day beamed into my living room. The question is which should I attend? The answer is I should attend the ones with the most customer-based content, which is what User2User is all about. I will miss attending this one live as it was… Read More


Automating the Design of Flat Panel Displays

Automating the Design of Flat Panel Displays
by Daniel Payne on 10-29-2020 at 10:00 am

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I’ve used OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) displays for many years in my monitors, laptops, tablets, e-readers and smart phones; and knew that the AMOLED (Active-Matrix OLED) displays used thin-film transistor technology where each pixel can be controlled, but I hadn’t considered the actual design process… Read More


Sensor Fusion in Hearables. A powerful complement

Sensor Fusion in Hearables. A powerful complement
by Bernard Murphy on 10-29-2020 at 6:00 am

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I must admit I’m impressed with how CEVA is pulling together foundational solutions for advanced consumer electronics. This through their own technologies (DSP, audio, vision, neural nets) and a rapid pace of partnerships, investments and acquisitions. Off the top of my head, I remember recent announcements on Immervision… Read More


How ML Enables Cadence Digital Tools to Deliver Better PPA

How ML Enables Cadence Digital Tools to Deliver Better PPA
by Mike Gianfagna on 10-28-2020 at 10:00 am

How ML Enables Cadence Digital Tools to Deliver Better PPA

There has been a lot written about artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and its application in the Cadence digital design flow. Most recently, I covered significant verification efficiency improvements in Xcellium ML.  A recent digital-themed white paper from Cadence takes a broader look at the impact of ML on… Read More


ASIC and FPGA Design and Verification Trends 2020

ASIC and FPGA Design and Verification Trends 2020
by Daniel Nenni on 10-28-2020 at 6:00 am

2020 Wilson Report Verification ASIC FPGA

Harry Foster and I started in semiconductors at the same time so it was great to reminisce while talking about the latest Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Trend reports. Before I get into the reports lets talk about Harry who is a verification superstar:

Harry is Chief Scientist Verification for the Design Verification… Read More


China Mobile and Computer Update 2020

China Mobile and Computer Update 2020
by Bill Jewell on 10-27-2020 at 10:00 am

China Mobile Phone Update 2020

Data on China production of mobile phones from the National Bureau of Statistics of China indicates a double-digit decline in the year 2020. In 1Q 2020, the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, China mobile phone production declined 50% from 4Q 2019 and dropped 33% from a year earlier. Many factories were temporarily closed in… Read More


Siemens is the True Catalyst for Secure and Trusted Digital Transformation

Siemens is the True Catalyst for Secure and Trusted Digital Transformation
by Mike Gianfagna on 10-27-2020 at 8:00 am

Siemens Ecosystem Workflow for Secure Trusted Digital Transformation

Introduction

For many years, I pondered the ultimate future of EDA. Companies such as Oracle, SAP and Dassault provide a huge array of enabling software infrastructure for the enterprise, including product design, mechanical design, project management and materials sourcing. But not for the all-important tasks of chip and… Read More


Arm Design Reviews add Mentor for Verification Review

Arm Design Reviews add Mentor for Verification Review
by Bernard Murphy on 10-27-2020 at 6:00 am

Arm Design Reviews

Arm and Mentor Recently announced that the Arm Design Reviews program now offers Mentor help in verification design reviews. I talked to Paul Williams (Sr Consultant and Verification Practice Lead at Mentor Graphics) and Peter Lewin (Dir. Mktg at Arm Partner Enablement Group) to get more insight into Arm Design Services, particularly… Read More


Impact of Defocus and Illumination on Imaging of Pitch

Impact of Defocus and Illumination on Imaging of Pitch
by Fred Chen on 10-26-2020 at 10:00 am

Impact of Defocus

In an earlier article [1], the resolution limit for the space between paired features was described by the Rayleigh criterion of ~0.6 wavelength/numerical aperture, where the numerical aperture (NA) represented the sine of the largest angle for a ray focused from the lens to a point. It is also given by the radius of the lens divided… Read More


Synopsys Enhances Chips and Systems with New Silicon Lifecycle Management Platform

Synopsys Enhances Chips and Systems with New Silicon Lifecycle Management Platform
by Mike Gianfagna on 10-26-2020 at 6:00 am

Silicon Lfecycle Management

SLM.  It’s a TLA (three-letter acronym) that you’ll be hearing more about. It stands for silicon lifecycle management and it has the potential of re-defining the role of EDA in the entire electronics ecosystem. A working definition of SLM is “monitoring, analysis and optimization of semiconductor devices as they are designed,… Read More