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Cadence EDA Update
Seems that news of the improved performance of EDA tools comes in waves. We covered some Mentor stories recently; this time it’s Cadence’s turn. And…
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Watching the Wheels Go Round
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Hey, at least it’s “mobile.” At…
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Walking the (Heterogeneous Multiprocessing) Talk
For years now, marketing folks at companies who make things like GPUs and FPGAs have been painting a beautiful picture of a gleaming future –…
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Nikon vs. ASML
Another day, another patent lawsuit. It’s just one of the many tools in the Silicon Valley (and any other global Silicon Situ) toolbox. So an…
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Whose Product Is It, Anyway?
“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.” – Khalil Gibran What follows is…
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Boards to Systems
There’s no question that the IC side of the EDA world gets most of the attention. After all, quad-patterning, EUV-having, boundary-pushing, 5-nm lithography issues are…
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Self-Driving Cars: Unofficial Views
Most of what we see about the upcoming self-driving car phenomenon comes from the industry. Press releases and contributed articles may disagree on timing and…
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Cars, Connection and Silicon
How do you sum up embedded world, this year spread over three days, with nearly 40,000 people and over 1,000 exhibitors, all around a theme…
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The Persistence of Memory
“If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.” — Donald Knuth Q: When is a cache not a cache? A: When it’s a Memory…
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Magnitudes of Mystery
Over the past five-plus decades, Moore’s Law has taken us on a remarkable rocket ride of complexity. With the number of transistors on a chip…