Consumerization: BYOD
python
Published. June 19, 2013Given: A string s of length at most 200 letters and four integers a, b, c and d. Return: The slice of this string from indices a through b and c through d (with space in between), inclusively....
Tech Deseign Forums Blog
ANALYSIS: nVidia has the IP to license but what about the ecosystem?
Published. June 19, 2013To get others to adopt its GPU cores, Nvidia must quickly build partnerships with tool vendors and foundries that guarantee easy implementation.The post ANALYSIS: nVidia has the IP to license but what about the ecosystem? appeared first on Tech Design Forum....
Open Source Initiative blogs
OSI Seeks a General Manager
Published. June 18, 2013On behalf of the board of directors, I am pleased to share the news that we have opened our first management position at the Open Source Initiative. Our search begins now and we expect to bring on board a new General Manager this summer. This "first" for OSI underscores our commitment to our mission as well as strengthening our move to a membership-driven organization. OSI General Manager is a full time, permanent position, reporting to the Board of Directors. We are seeking an individual...
EDA Graffiti
The value of efficiency
Published. June 18, 2013Recently I had an interesting conversation with a few friends who work outside the technology industry. I am always interested in the perceptions of those outside our industry about what we do. In this case, we ended up talking about energy efficient appliances and why they cost more than the “less” efficient appliances....
Technology Review Feed - Energy Top Stories
Untapped Potential
Published. June 18, 2013A 1938 article anticipated the opportunities—and challenges—of harnessing the sun’s energy.Excerpted from “Converting Sunlight into Power,” from the June 1938 issue of Technology Review....
NextGenLog
#CHIPS: "Intel Application Processors Outperform ARM"
Published. June 18, 2013When you beef-up an ARM processor to run a high-end operating system, such as Windows 8, it looses its low-cost/low-power advantage over Intel application processors, according to ABI Research: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Further Reading...
All About Microsoft
Microsoft delivers biggest update to date to TypeScript
Published. June 19, 2013Microsoft updates its superset of JavaScript, known as TypeScript, with a slew of new features, including the addition of generics....
TI E2E Community
Blog Post: Pop Quiz Hotshot
Published. June 18, 2013I loved Bruce Trump's blog post yesterday on the "The Signal" blog and thought all our educators and students would like the chance to test themselves! So with his permission... I'm reposting here! Test yourself and post your quiz score in the comment section below! Highest scorer will get a fun little giveaway - your choice from a magic 8-ball, laptop sleeve, t-shirt, laptop messenger bag, or USB hub (I'm generous- I'll send more than one in case of a tie). This is on the...
Linux and Open Source
Linux continues to rule supercomputers
Published. June 19, 2013If you want a really fast computer, then Linux is your operating system and Intel may be your chip manufacturer....
Laptops and Desktops Blog
How much will AMD's new FX-9000 desktop processors cost?
Published. June 18, 2013An online retailer priced the forthcoming chips between $500 and $1,000 before removing them from its site. Would AMD really charge that much for its top-performing CPUs?...
Jack Erickson's Blog
Developing the Skill Set Required for SystemC TLM-Based Hardware Design and Verification
Published. June 18, 2013I've written a lot about the benefits of moving hardware design and verification up in abstraction from RTL to SystemC with transaction-level models (TLM). We have seen many customers speed their overall design and verification turnaround by 2x. A recent article described Fujitsu Semiconductor's experience -- 35% better performance, 35% smaller area, 51% less power and faster turnaround time.The benefits of moving up in abstraction are summarized by the following graph, which shows the leaps...
Robert Dwyer's Blog
Re: create power and ground pins
Published. June 18, 2013A new-ish command called "createPGPin" was created to do this. Do you see that available in the version you're using?Hope so... ...
Conversation Central
A Chat with Ed Sperling – Did you ever think of Mixed-signal Virtual Prototyping? Black-magic or reality?
Published. June 18, 2013Guest: Martin Barnasconi, Product manager / cluster leader AMS/RF system design methods, NXP Semiconductors Guest Host: Ed Sperling, Editor in Chief, System Level Design If your browser doesn’t support Flash, click here to download the show and play it locally. Designing a mixed-signal chip isn’t a simple process, even at 140 nanometers. Designers have to [...]...
To USB or not to USB
Thunderbolt 2, USB 3.0, and 10G USB – Who wins?
Published. June 17, 2013Thunderlbolt 2, USB 3.0 and 10G USB – Who will Win? Apple announced MacPro, circular cone shaped Apple PC with 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports. That’s right, 6 ports. What is Thunderbolt 2? Why would you possibly need 6 ports of anything, on any PC? Well, this is the PC that will make all other PCs feel [...]...
Mocana Device Blog
Comcast Launches Neighborhood HotSpot Program
Published. June 17, 2013Customers of Comcast Internet may notice there’s a second WiFi SSID associated with their router. Not to worry, says the company; it’s part of a larger program to allow Xfinity Internet-enabled friends and others to enjoy a local hotspot in your home. The latest gateways broadcast two signals: a secure one for the account owner [...]...
Electronics Engineering Video Blog Podcast
EEVblog web hosting
Published. June 18, 2013I get many people ask were and how I host eevblog.com and the forum. The answer is HostGator at www.hostgator.com I use one of HostGators dedicated servers to host the wordpress website and forum. It’s an Intel Xeon E3-1220LV2 running at 2.3GHz, with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 500 GB RAID-1 Drives, with 10 TB of [...]...
Mocana Device Blog
Comcast Launches Neighborhood HotSpot Program
Published. June 17, 2013Customers of Comcast Internet may notice there’s a second WiFi SSID associated with their router. Not to worry, says the company; it’s part of a larger program to allow Xfinity Internet-enabled friends and others to enjoy a local hotspot in your home. The latest gateways broadcast two signals: a secure one for the account owner [...]...
The Java Posse
Java Posse #422 - JAX Conf
Published. June 16, 2013JAX Conf Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com JAXConf http://jaxconf.com/ Java 8 delayed until 2014 http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/04/Java_8_Delayed http://hg.openjdk.java.net/lambda/lambda/jdk/rev/fde3666e6394 Patents? The This American Life episode from two years ago was just updated: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/when-patents-attack-part-two https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/white-house-takes-aim-patent-trolls...
Always On Real
Mobile Future Forward 2013 – Speaker Update
Published. June 14, 2013Hope you are enjoying the last days of spring. Here is an update on our fall mobile executive summit – Mobile Future Forward (Sept 10th in Seattle). One of the critical segments that the fourth wave of mobile is shaping is that of the operators. Many of the leading operators are investing heavily and are [...]...
The Canonical Hamiltonian
Snooping on Planes from Space!
Published. June 13, 2013Hot on the heels of recent NSA revelations, the European Space Agency announced today[1] that they’ve put a satellite, Proba-V, in orbit that can track airplane flights from outer space. Unlike the NSA snooping, however, the plane tracking is voluntary, … Continue reading →...
Approaching Windows Embedded Intelligently
Windows Embedded Compact 2013: a developer’s perspective
Published. June 13, 2013Posted By Colin MurphyTechnical Program Manager, Microsoft’s Windows Embedded What is Windows Embedded Compact 2013? It is just the latest, and of course greatest, version of Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Compact componentized OS, formerly known as Windows CE. Did you know that Microsoft has been in the embedded space with this operating system for over 15 years? In that time, this little OS has evolved from one target category--small handheld devices--to a general-purpose embedded...
FPGA Blog
Altera Introduces Generation 10 FPGA and SoC Devices
Published. June 13, 2013Altera launched their Generation 10 FPGA and SoC devices. The Generation 10 devices will help engineers to develop highly customized solutions that increases system performance and system integration while lowering operating expenses. Initial samples of Arria 10 devices will be available in early 2014. Altera will have 14nm Stratix 10 FPGA test chips in 2013 [...]...
EDA Blog
Synopsys Optimizes DesignWare HPC Design Kit for All SoC Processor Cores
Published. June 13, 2013Synopsys has extended their DesignWare Duet Embedded Memory and Logic Library IP to enable the optimized implementation of a broad range of processor cores. In one package, designers now have access to the specialty cells and memories they need to optimize their CPU, GPU and DSP cores across the full speed, power and area spectrum. [...]...
EEBeat
ENERGY STAR Nears Completion of Small Network Spec
Published. June 12, 2013The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published the third draft of its ENERGY STAR® Small Networking Equipment spec (v1). The program covers non-rack-mounted versions of broadband access devices (modems, integrated access devices (IADs), and optical network termination devices) and local network equipment (access points, routers, and switches). I wrote about draft 2 of the [...]...
Barr Code
Intellectual Property Protections for Embedded Software: A Primer
Published. June 11, 2013My experiences as a testifying expert witness in numerous lawsuits involving software and source code have taught me a thing or two about the various intellectual property protections that are available to the creators of software. These are areas of the law that you, as an embedded software engineer, should probably know at least a [...]...
John Day
A truck transformed
Published. June 9, 2013If you’re familiar with the “Transformers” franchise (movies, toys, games, et al) you may be pleased to know that “Transformers 4,” directed once again by Michael Bay, is scheduled for release in late June next year, and a featured player – the semi trailer truck Optimus Prime – has a link to Mentor Graphics. Optimus [...]...
BCL Team Blog
Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together
Published. June 8, 2013Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages: A brand new Microsoft.Bcl.Compression (Beta). A portable compression library that supports stream based compression (gzip, deflate) as well as ZIP archives. An updated Microsoft.Net.Http 2.2 (Beta). Last week we shipped an RTM version. Today, we released a new beta that provides automatic decompression by taking a dependency on the Microsoft.Bcl.Compression package. Before we go into the details, let’s first take a...
McAfee Labs
Malicious Dating, Ad Services Plague Japanese Users
Published. June 7, 2013In a previous blog McAfee Mobile Research reported on fraudulent adult dating-service applications on Google Play that target Japanese users. Many other suspicious applications are spreading on Google Play in Japan, and try to lure users to similar fraudulent sites. These suspicious applications have appeared on Google Play since May. They offer adult or nonadult Read more......
Chris Gamell's Analog Life
Contextual Electronics Announcement
Published. June 6, 2013“But Chris, what happened to your milling videos?” “Well, the same thing that happens to lots of projects, they got re-prioritized!” I really enjoy working with my new mill! It’s awesome and I’ve learned a ton. I didn’t post it to this site as a separate blog post on this site, but I did post [...]...
Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded
Does Altera Have “Big Data” Communications on the Brain?
Published. June 5, 2013In wireless, wireline and financial “big data” applications, moving all those packets needs prodigious FPGA resources, not all of which Altera had before their recent series of acquisitions, partnerships, and otherwise wheeling-and-dealing. I caught up with an old friend at … Continue reading →...
Frank Schirrmeister Blog
DAC 2013 – System Design on Wednesday, June 5th
Published. June 5, 2013The DAC exhibition comes to a close today, and we have another day with great presentations related to the Cadence System Development Suite. If you want to follow along the flow of our core engines from virtual through RTL simulation, acceleration, emulation and FPGA-based prototyping, we just created a new video landing page outlining the successes of Xilinx, Nvidia, Broadcom, Freescale and partner comments from ARM and Bluespec. Yours truly is giving a brief overview of how it all fits together...
Green Hills Software
Green Hills Software and Symphony Teleca Corporation Collaborate on Delivering Ethernet AVB to the Automotive Industry
Published. June 5, 2013Combines Lower Cost, Higher Performance In-vehicle Network Services with Industry-leading Security and Reliability Platform...
Jason Andrews Blog
Accelerating Time to Market with ARM Software Development Tools and the Cadence System Development Suite
Published. June 4, 2013In one of the Monday presentations at the Cadence DAC Theater, Ronan Synnott from ARM talked about how ARM Software Development Tools such as DS-5 interact with the Cadence System Development Suite. I thought it would be good to provide a more detailed example of how DS-5 interacts with the Cadence Virtual System Platform.Some time ago, we decided that Eclipse was the best infrastructure to build our software development environment for VSP. Today's DAC presentation by Ronan and this more detailed...
A View From the Top
Software, From Zero To Hero
Published. June 4, 2013As the amount of software in electronics applications across many markets, from mobile phones to automotive hybrid systems continues to grow, it is interesting to see how people portray this new found dependency on software availability. I recently saw a presentation slide with the title: software delays products. Well, I guess that is one way [...]...
Branden Williams' Security Coverage Blog
May 2013 Roundup
Published. June 3, 2013What was popular in May? It’s almost summer time! And of course, we have all kinds of horrific weather impacting parts of the country that many of us call home. I played an extra in a show about hackers (does this mean I need to join SAG?), and have been speaking to all kinds of [...]...
Verification Horizons Blog
Texas-Sized DAC Edition of Verification Horizons Now Up on Verification Academy
Published. May 31, 2013Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let you know that we just posted the PDF of the latest, Texas-Sized, DAC edition of Verification Horizons on the Verification Academy. In addition to my Editor’s Note, in which I liken what we do as verification engineers to my set-building experiences in local theatre groups, and brag about my [...]...
Adam Sherer Blog
Introducing UVM Multi-Language Open Architecture
Published. June 1, 2013The new UVM Multi-Language (ML) Open Architecture (OA) posted to the new UVMWorld is the result of a collaboration between Cadence and AMD. It uniquely integrates e, SystemVerilog, SystemC, C/C+, and other languages into a cohesive verification hierarchy and runs on multiple simulators. Moreover, the new solution is open for additional collaboration and technology enhancement. Since Cadence introduced ML verification four years ago, the need for it has never been...
Stephane Boucher's DSP Blog
Collaborative Writing Experiment: Your Favourite DSP Websites
Published. May 30, 2013You are invited to contribute to the content of this blog post through the magic of Google Docs' real time collaboration feature. I discovered this tool several months ago when I was looking for a way to coordinate our annual family halloween party (potluck) and avoid the very unpleasant situation of ending up with too much chips and not enough chocolate (first world problem!). It was amu... read more...
Wireless Sensor Networks Blog
Wanted for the Internet of Things: Ant-Sized Computers
Published. May 29, 2013If the Internet is to reach everywhere—from the pills you swallow to the shoes on your feet—then computers will need to get a whole lot smaller. A new microchip that is two millimeters square and contains almost all the components of a tiny functioning computer is a promising start. The KL02 chip, made by Freescale, is shorter […]...
Team Specman Blog
New Specman Coverage Engine - Extensions Under Subtypes
Published. May 28, 2013This is first in a series of three blog posts that are going to present some powerful enhancements that were added to Specman 12.2 in order to ease the modeling of a multi-instance coverage environment. In this blog we're going to focus on the first enhancement, while the other two enhancements will be described in the following coverage blogs.Starting with Specman 12.2, one can define the coverage options per subtype. Using per-instance, Specman checks the subtypes of each instance,...
Simon Phipp's Blog
Ubuntu 'superphone' needs a superstrategy
Published. May 24, 2013No doubt you've heard about Ubuntu Touch, the open source mobile OS for touchscreens currently in development by Ubuntu's owner Canonical.read more...
Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect
Ariba LIVE roadmap debrief: Cloud data analytics
Published. May 23, 2013Ariba Vice President Chris Haydon explains the company's latest news and offers insights into how Ariba will be broadening its services procurement management value, mobile push, and AribaPay rollout....
Analog Insights
DAC 2013 AMS Verification Luncheon: Advance Your Mixed-signal Verification Techniques to the Next Level
Published. May 22, 2013Well DAC 2013 is around the corner, so I guess it is time to blog about it, especially since this is in Austin And no, I am not going to tell you about the best BBQ joints or sushi places (yes I did say sushi in Texas) since I lived there for almost 15 [...]...
Tawna Wilsey Blog
SpectreRF at 2013 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in Seattle, Washington
Published. May 23, 2013If you are attending the International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2013) in Seattle (June 2-7, 2013) stop by the Cadence Design Systems booth, #427.We will be showing new MMSIM12.1.1 features including “Smart” HB GUI,Robust and easy to use nport (for s-parameter input), and theTransmission Line library workshop.Looking forward to seeing you!Best regards,Tawna ...
Urban Work Bench
Revelstoke Dam
Published. May 21, 2013Engineers seem to love rituals, but one unspoken engineering ritual that I love to partake in, is to view the greatest examples of engineering, great buildings, bridges, tunnels, canals and even sewer systems are all possible candidates worthy of reflection. But in my mind, and for many Civil Engineers, dams are an important pilgrimage ritual [...]This post was written by Mike Thomas for UrbanWorkbench.com ©2006-2013.Originally posted as Revelstoke Dam...
Daniel Cazzulino's Blog
NuGet References: publishing my first open source extension to the DevStore
Published. May 18, 2013Last week I had the pleasure of spending time with a bunch of friends at the OuterConf 2013, including pretty much the entire NuGet team. I also could attend to the hackathon they organized, and I got to hack what I think is a pretty cool Visual Studio 2012 extension: NuGet References. An improved NuGet [...]...
Robin Bornoff's Blog
Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 1
Published. May 13, 2013A common enough question. Heatsinks are often perceived to be the magic answer to all electronics cooling challenges. They should be called ‘area extenders’ as heat does not just disappear into them. Heat spreads throughout a heatsink passing to the air over a much larger area than it would otherwise do. Air can then do [...]...
GROG: Green Tech Blog
Electronic Medical Records and Personal Health Records
Published. March 27, 2013With the ever expanding Internet opening possibilities across various forms of business, we find ourselves in an age where information is readily available at our fingertips. Databases have been built regarding driving records, real estate, education, and more to provide a more efficient and less time consuming practice of data entry. Electronic medical records are […]...
scalability.org
What would you do if you had “infinite” bandwidth and IOPs coupled directly to your computing?
Published. May 8, 2013Imagine you have some … I dunno … gargantuan amount of bandwidth available, to and from your disks. And you have just positively insane IOP rates, at these very high bandwidths. And then you tightly couple a few hundred processor cores, and a few terabytes of memory. What would you consider “gargantuan” bandwidth? What would [...]...
Mike Jensen's Blog
EDA vs. Windows 8
Published. May 6, 2013I have read a lot in recent months about Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest incarnation of its flagship Windows operating system. While there are many new features over and above its Windows 7 predecessor, one thing that makes me quite curious about Windows 8 is its optimization for touchscreen technology. Note that I have yet to [...]...
Siliconcowboy's Blog
Comment on Were the Five Recent/Worst Mass Murderers in the US Democrats? by Greg
Published. May 2, 2013I disagree. I see a point well made that there is nothing pointing to these peoples political views except perhaps that they were extreme to say the least. He never said they were republicans. Reread the article and find where he says anything about them being repubs. I do not understand what the hell politics has to do with this issue anyway. It was wrong, basically now and forever wrong. He makes the point that none of these killers should have had access to guns based on thier mental issues. Are...
Joel on Software
Free as in Fortune Cookies
Published. April 30, 2013Trello has been out for less than two years and it’s been growing like wildfire. We recently hit 1.5 million members, of whom about 1/3 perform some action every month, and our MongoDB database now contains more than 70 million cards on 3.7 million boards. So the obvious question I get all the time is, “How exactly are you supposed to make money with that?” You may have noticed that Trello is free. Not “free trial,” not “freemium,” but just plain old free. Some people have justifiably...
Fusion
AMD’s Much Beloved FX Product-Line Welcomes Two New Additions to the Lineup
Published. April 29, 2013AMD FX 4350 and 6350 processor parts launch today in the component channel. AMD is rolling out two new members of the legendary FX CPU family, and as always, they bring the unlocked performance you’ve come to know and love … Continue reading...
The Eyes Have It
Multi-programmable non-volatile memory on standard 40-nm CMOS
Published. April 17, 2013A wide range of wireless SoCs supporting near field communication (NFC), Bluetooth, 802.11, and other radio applications can reduce both system power and cost by integrating multiple time programmable (MTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) on-chip. The MTP NVM can be used for field updatable lookup tables (for routing NFC packets), device matching (in the case of [...]...
Rick Lyons's DSP Blog
A Quadrature Signals Tutorial: Complex, But Not Complicated
Published. April 12, 2013Click Here for a PDF version of this article Introduction Quadrature signals are based on the notion of complex numbers and perhaps no other topic causes more heartache for newcomers to DSP than these numbers and their strange terminology of j operator, complex, imaginary, real, and orthogonal. If you're a little unsure of the physical meaning of complex numbers and the j = √-1 operator, ... read more...
The Moth
Effectiveness and Efficiency
Published. April 13, 2013In the professional environment, i.e. at work, I am always seeking personal growth and to be challenged. The result is that my assignments, my work list, my tasks, my goals, my commitments, my [insert whatever word resonates with you] keep growing (in scope and desired impact). Which in turn means I have to keep finding new ways to deliver more value, while not falling into the trap of working more hours. To do that I continuously evaluate both my effectiveness and my efficiency. EFFECTIVENESS ...
State-Space
Dual Targeting and Agile Prototyping of Embedded Software on Windows
Published. April 12, 2013When developing embedded code for devices with non-trivial user interfaces, it often pays off to build a prototype (virtual prototype) of the embedded system of a PC. The strategy is called “dual targeting”, because you develop software on one machine (e.g., Windows PC) and run it on a deeply embedded target. Dual targeting is the [...]...
Signal Integrity
High-speed Digital Seminars in Twenty European Cities
Published. April 12, 2013Register now for high-speed digital seminars all across Europe May-June 2013....
Microchip Coupon Codes & Discounts
Choina Only! 70% Discount on PICkit 3 & Many More!
Published. January 16, 2012To usher in 2012 and the Year of the Dragon, the Dev Tools group and microchipDIRECT are jointly offering a special promotion on many popular Microchip development tools exclusively to engineers in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from now till February 6th, 2012. Highlights of the sale include a never-before 70% discount on the PICkit [...]...
Gabe On EDA
Chenming Hu wins 2013 Phil Kaufman Award
Published. April 5, 2013This year the Phil Kaufman award committee has gone back to more traditional origins for its awardees: UC Berkeley. Dr. Chenming Hu will receive the award at this year's DAC conference in Austin Texas. The Phil Kaufman Award honors individuals who have had demonstrable impact on the field of EDA through technology innovations, education/mentoring, business or industry leaderships. The proximity of Silicon Valley and UC Berkeley is not a geographical accident, but an example of the synergy between...
Verification Martial Arts
SNUG-2012 Verification Round Up – Miscellaneous Topics
Published. March 29, 2013In my final installment of the series of blogs summing up the various SNUG verification papers of 2012, I try to cover the user papers on the Design IP/Verification IP and SystemC and SystemVerilog co-simulation. Please find my earlier blogs on the other domains here: System Verilog Language, Methodologies & VCS technologies DesignWare core USB3.0 [...]...
Rands In Repose
Regular Audio Human
Published. March 28, 2013I'm a rookie when it comes to listening to music, and chances are, so are you. Like me, you're just fine using whatever headphones were supplied with your smartphone. You know there are better headphones out there, but you think,......
AnalogTalk
Why can’t I get enough current out of this battery charger IC?
Published. March 18, 2013With the increasing popularity of portable devices, demands on rechargeable batteries have driven the growth of its surrounding electronics, such as battery protection IC and battery charger IC. Battery capacity below 500 mAh is a popular category for small form factor products. In such applications, LDO (low drop out) regulator based architecture is often used [...]...
CEA Digital Dialogue
Gary Shapiro Talks Innovation, Startups with CNN at SXSW
Published. March 14, 2013The 2013 South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences and Festivals are underway in Austin, Texas, highlighting the latest in technology, music and film. The Consumer Electronics Association® (CEA) had a large presence at this year’s show. CEA’s President and CEO, Gary Shapiro hosted a reading and signing of CEA’s newest book, Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses and also discussed the book, startups and more with Max Foster on CNN....
Joseph Hupcey Blog
DVCon 2013: Functional Verification Is EDA’s “Killer App”
Published. March 11, 2013With another year of record attendance, DVCon has again proven that a functional verification-focused mix of trade show and technical conference is what customers need to get their jobs done. Here are some of the some of the highlights I took away from this informative event:DVCon 2013 was a one stop shop for panels, papers, posters,live demos, and tutorials on functional verification* Great panels on Verification Planning and Drastically Improving D&VTwo panels at the conference provided valuable...
Paul Johnston's Blog
When you should wake up and retire your old software.
Published. March 8, 2013In an internal meeting at the end of last month I heard a fact announced. In the total worldwide licenses for Mentor Graphics’ software for Integrated Electrical Systems the balance has changed. There are now more Capital Harness XC seats than Capital H Classic. The legacy system, the last generation software is gradually replaced by [...]...
Pallab's Place
EUV and eBeam at SPIE ADV Litho 2013
Published. March 1, 2013While the main manufacturing flows are still focusing on optical lithography, eBeam and EUV are still making progress on advancements waiting for their chance in the main flow of the fab line. EUV is still working on power and throughput. A challenge for the industry is the dual sided consolidation for the advanced node development. [...]...
GreenTech Pastures
Mainstreaming our green technology coverage
Published. February 28, 2013For future news about data center efficiency, energy management software and other cleantech issues, consult ZDNet's core topic and news blogs. It's always on our mind....
Brian's Brain
Sponsored Link:University engineering students: Win $10,000 Engibous Prize!
Published. February 28, 2013The TI Analog Design contest is now open! Register today to receive free products, discounted tools, and engineer to engineer design support with your team project. Your project need only include 3 TI Analog IC’s or 2 TI Analog IC’s and a TI processor for a chance to win $10,000, $7,500, or $5,000....
Anablog
Sponsored Link:University engineering students: Win $10,000 Engibous Prize!
Published. February 28, 2013The TI Analog Design contest is now open! Register today to receive free products, discounted tools, and engineer to engineer design support with your team project. Your project need only include 3 TI Analog IC’s or 2 TI Analog IC’s and a TI processor for a chance to win $10,000, $7,500, or $5,000....
Now Hear This!
Sponsored Link:University engineering students: Win $10,000 Engibous Prize!
Published. February 28, 2013The TI Analog Design contest is now open! Register today to receive free products, discounted tools, and engineer to engineer design support with your team project. Your project need only include 3 TI Analog IC’s or 2 TI Analog IC’s and a TI processor for a chance to win $10,000, $7,500, or $5,000....
Practical Chip Design
Sponsored Link:University engineering students: Win $10,000 Engibous Prize!
Published. February 28, 2013The TI Analog Design contest is now open! Register today to receive free products, discounted tools, and engineer to engineer design support with your team project. Your project need only include 3 TI Analog IC’s or 2 TI Analog IC’s and a TI processor for a chance to win $10,000, $7,500, or $5,000....
Otaku, Cedric's weblog
Coding challenge (“light” edition)
Published. February 14, 2013This coding challenge is a bit different from the previous one ([1] [2]) because it is shorter and also a bit more closely tied to Java. A School has either a name (“Stanford”) or a nickname (“UCSD”) or both. Your task is to write equals() and hashCode() methods for the School class that satisfy the [...]...
Kiran Bulusu’s Blog
My experience @ Founders Institute
Published. February 12, 2013Finally the day arrived . My company Sensory Health Systems graduated from the one of the worlds largest and finest startup accelerators “Founders Institute” . It was one of the most intensive program I have ever gone through and the … Continue reading →...
Team Verify's Blog
DVCon 2013 for Formal and ABV Users
Published. February 11, 2013At the upcoming DVCon (in San Jose, CA February 25-28), Cadence will cover all aspects of our verification technologies and methodologies (full list of Cadence-sponsored events is here). However, Team Verify would like to alert users of Cadence Incisive formal and multi-engine tools, apps, and assertion-based verification (ABV) to the following papers and posters focused on this domain.* Session 2, Tuesday Feb. 26, 9-10:30am features two papers:Paper 2.1, "Overcoming AXI...
PCB Signal and Power Integrity Tech Corner
Developing Confidence in Your Analysis Tool – HyperLynx 9.0 Demonstration
Published. February 7, 2013Last week at DesignCon 2013, I provided an Analysis Anchored to Reality presentation of the highlighting and validating the new features of HyperLynx 9.0. Teledyne LeCroy, Molex, CCN, and Picosecond Pulse Labs partnered with us to provide measurement equipment, hardware to test, and a pattern generator for this demonstration. We started off with a correlation [...]...
The Perils of Parallel
Intel Xeon Phi Announcement (& me)
Published. February 6, 20131. No, I’m not dead. Not even sick. Been a long time since a post. More on this at the end. 2. So, Intel has finally announced a product ancestrally based on the long-ago Larrabee. The architecture became known as MIC (Many Integrated Cores), development vehicles were named after tiny towns (Knights Corner/Knights Ferry – one was to be the product, but I could never keep them straight), and the final product is to be known as the Xeon Phi. Why Phi? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the start...
Domeika's Dilemma
Multicore – assimilating the new developments
Published. October 9, 2009There was a brief pause in my blogging as I have been assimilating some of the new developments in the multicore realm. Some of the items are close to home for me at my respective company with the acquisition of Wind River, Cilk Arts, and RapidMind. I’m not at liberty to comment on strategy, future [...]...
Ed Burnette's Dev Connection
PlayFirst abandons PC/Mac market for greener mobile pastures
Published. October 9, 2012PlayFirst calls it quits on PC and Mac, doubling down on iOS and Android instead. Flo fans will just have to go buy a tablet to get their daily dash on....
Magic Blue Smoke
Most Commonly Used/Required UPF 1801 Constructs
Published. March 3, 2012Often times many designers keep asking one question ; Does all EDA tools support UPF2.0 Commands. In theory all the commands in UPF are referred to as IEEE 1801 commands and all the supported commands by the tool can be accessed through solvnet article (https://solvnet.synopsys.com/retrieve/021264.html) In my opinion in addition to the standard UPF [...]...
Windows Embedded Blog
Windows Embedded Keynote at SMART TECHnology World
Published. March 26, 2012On Friday 23rd March 2012 Kevin Dallas, General Manager of the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft delivered a keynote presentation at SMART TECHnology World, during the keynote Kevin is joined by Michael Allison, IT Administrator of Hillcrest Medical Center, Tom Romano, CIO of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Jim Buczkowski, a Technical Fellow at Ford to discuss the emergence and value of Intelligent Systems Here’s a link to the keynote video - Mike...
Absolute Power
4G LTE vs. 3G Power Mystery Explained
Published. August 9, 2012Last month we saw some interesting data in our investigation of energy efficiency of 4G LTE transmission versus 3G transmission on the new iPad. The data above suggests that in 4G LTE mode, the new iPad used roughly the same amount of energy (3.8Wh) for viewing our test movie (Star Trek, 2:06:46, 138MB) locally [...]...
Everything USB
Mophie Outs Thinnest Battery Case for iPhone 5
Published. February 6, 2013Windows Embedded Standard
This Blog is Moving!
Published. July 9, 2012This blog site is being incorporated into a new, more integrated blog site that covers all things Embedded. As of today we will no longer be posting news and announcements on this site but will be posting to the new site instead- Approaching Embedded Intelligently. We have migrated a number of useful articles to this new site already so you will not lose these troubleshooting and information resources- you can find them under the Products Update discussion topic. We hope you enjoy the new site!...
Stack Overflow
Real world variables
Published. January 16, 2013Part of what makes embedded systems fun for me is that they normally interact with the physical world. The physical world contains real parameters which we measure using transducers, signal conditioning circuits and so on, such that ultimately we end up with a variable in our embedded code that purports to represent this real world [...]...
The Standards Game
A standards struggle of global proportions
Published. January 31, 2013I thought you might find this interesting. As I begin my two-year term as President of the IEEE Standards Association, these are the kinds of standards struggles that I’ll be exposed to. While not diminishing the importance of EDA standards (and the occasional struggle we’ve been through), this standards struggle puts ours in a whole [...]...
Veera Sundar
How to change the default webapp deployment location of Tomcat in Eclipse
Published. December 10, 2012When you deploy your Java web application to the Apache Tomcat server, via Eclipse, by default the web app will be deployed under {YOUR_ECLIPSE_WORKSPACE}.metadata.pluginsorg.eclipse.wst.server.coretmp{a-number}wtpwebapps. Suppose if you want to deploy your web app to a location that is easily navigable, follow these steps. First make sure you have removed all the web apps that are currently [...]...
Olliance Group: Open Means Business
Open Source and the Mobile Applications Gold Rush
Published. September 2, 2011Since the launch of the Apple iPhone App Store in July 2008, the focus on investment in mobile/wireless has shifted from handsets for their own sake to a near obsession with mobile phones as applications platforms, and to building and marketing applications for them. Apple didn’t invent the applications store concept – handset manufacturer Palm [...]...
Law & Life: Silicon Valley
Major Step Forward on FOSS for US Government: FOSS Compliance with Trade Agreements Act
Published. December 7, 2012Talend, a licensor of open source enterprise software, has recently received a ruling from the U.S. Customs Service corroborating that its software complies with the Trade Agreements Act 0f 1979 (19 USC 2511 et seq.) (“TAA”). Open source software adoption by the US Federal government must comply with many regulations, some of which [...]...
Sandro Groganz, Open Source Marketing Consultant
Branding and the Open Source Marketplace
Published. November 26, 2012I’m quite busy with transitioning from my life as a consultant to working for Magnolia. Hence, I was not yet able to let you know that opensource.com published yet another article from yours truly. In the extremely overcrowded open source Continue reading →...
CCIE Journey
INE Expanding – Hiring Support Engineers – US and International
Published. November 30, 2012New over at INE’s Blog: As everyone knows INE has made INC 5000?s list of fastest growing educational companies for two years running and we’re having our best year ever by roughly 30% over our 2011 numbers. With this growth INE is once again expanding. Starting mid-January 2013 INE will have a new office in [...]...
John Coyne's Embedded Blog
Compact 7 Webcast–June 19th!
Published. May 21, 2012Our Windows Embedded Compact 7 team is hosting a Webcast on June 19th! Image Tuning to balance Performance and Power in Windows Embedded Compact 7 The demands of the embedded world make creating the best image possible an absolute requirement. ...(read more)...
Soft Talk - Multicore and Parallel Programming
And it’s ‘goodnight’ from him…
Published. December 19, 2012After three years of writing here several times a week, I’m going to take a bit of a break from this blog. I’ll be blogging for Develop Online and Mobile Entertainment each week (sponsored by Intel), and this blog will be updated occasionally, but I won’t be able to dedicate the time to it that [...]...
John Isaac's Blog
Using Virtual Prototyping versus Physical Prototyping
Published. February 6, 2013On our “Best-In_Class” web site, we talk about 6 practices that have enabled electronics companies to achieve their agressive business goals and obtain best-in-class status. In my last blog, I talked about how they enable Concurrency in the design process. By turning serial processes into parallel, this not only had the affect of reducing time [...]...
Simon's DFM Corner
TSMC 28nm yield (SemiWiki)
Published. February 6, 2013I posted the following reply to Daniel Nenni’s article on TSMC 28nm yield: “I agree that design teams need to take more ownership of the yield issue. Unfortunately, yield is such a sensitive topic that people only talk about it when it’s bad! The defect density vs. die size and yield curves above represent the [...]...
CFD doesn’t mean Color For Directors
Liberating Human Potential
Published. February 6, 2013I was reading an article in City A.M a while back – a freebie newspaper containing banking and business news and distributed to those lucky souls in London who take public transport. On this wet and cold morning no one was interested in taking a copy so as I walked by the guy handing them [...]...
PCB Matters
Introducing DxDesigner 7.9.4
Published. February 6, 2013Welcome! I am Gary Lameris Technical Marketing Engineer for Mentor Graphics. I’ve worked with DxDesigner since 1988 and have watched it grow from the independent Unix/Dos tool called PowerView and Viewdraw to a powerful multi-user schematic drafting program tightly integrated into the Expedition Enterprise and PADS layout tools today. Four years ago I moved to [...]...
CallMOM
Who knew that you could balance 100?s of work orders simultaneously across the factory for truly optimized production plan?
Published. February 6, 2013Our electronics manufacturing factories today are finally picking up steam. This is creating pressure on many companies who are looking for ways to improve performance-to-schedule. One of the most important factors in attracting and keeping customers, is the ability to continuously meet delivery commitments for production and to keep the delivery time as short as [...]...
Max Clark’s Blog – DFM begins with Design
Managing the Assembly Panel Design process
Published. February 6, 2013When a product model completes the design process and moves into the manufacturing process, designers and process engineers are always looking for opportunities to improve upon the clarity and reliability of their communication. In the case of assembly panels the most common communication method is an assembly panel drawing that contains the dimensions on where [...]...
Taken For Granted
DAC 2012: Mystical Confluence: ESL Hockey Stick and The Cup!
Published. June 7, 2012Another note from DAC 2012: In Gary Smith’s Sunday night pre-DAC talk, he mentioned that in 2011, ESL tools took off – the famous Hockey Stick. See his slide (courtesy of my friend Frank Schirrmeister): Could the long-awaited, long postponed arrival of the ESL Hockey Stick at the same time as the Stanley Cup Finals [...]...
Denali Memory Blog
Cadence Video Demonstrates PCIe Gen3 IP Silicon Performance
Published. August 6, 2012It is not often that an IP provider gets to showcase their IP performance in a real product demo. Those laurels usually end up going to the end product that uses the IP. But a recent Cadence video features our PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3 core running flawlessly in silicon in a real system. We thought we would raise some eyebrows since, as of today, there are very few products in the market that utilize the full power of the PCIe Gen3 protocol, let alone those that have been designed using a commercial...
Arthur Schaldenbrand Blog
Measuring Bipolar Transistor ft with Fixed Base-Collector Voltage
Published. June 12, 2012Recently I had a question from reader. He asked a good question: "How do you to measure a bipolar transistor's ft when the base-collector voltage, Vbc, is fixed?" Attached is a modified version of the testbench that allows a user to measure ft with a fixed Vbc. While the aesthetics are not as pleasing as the original testbench, it does the job. The testbench is shown in Figure 1. The base of the bipolar transistor, the DUT, is grounded. The collector of the transistor is connected...
Michael Jacobs Blog
Webinar: SOI Gives More Performance Per Watt, And There's An Easy Path
Published. August 20, 2010If you've seen any of the recent buzz lately around Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI), you'd know that it's an excellent option that can enable you to meet lower power consumption and die area targets without sacrificing performance or functionality. This is why Cadence, ARM and IBM have partnered to provide you an easy path to silicon with the SOI process for your digital design, including production proven software, design kits and IP. If you're a design manager or engineer, and...
Ran Avinun's Blog
The Challenge of System Integration and Bring-Up
Published. May 3, 2011In the last few years, I have talked with many companies and analysts and consistently heard that system integration time is becoming one of the key challenges in system development. Many companies spend 50% of their total development cycle on system integration and bring-up. This blog will describe the key challenges customers face today, and will refer to a new Cadence approach and offerings to address them. Post-Silicon System Integration and Bring-UpThe flood of...
Steven Brown's Blog
Virtual Flash Memory Gets Real
Published. August 8, 2011This week's Flash Memory summit will not only highlight the IP Cadence delivers, but will touch on innovative application of virtual prototype technology for Flash Memory firmware and system development. Developing complex memory controllers is challenging, and an increasing portion of the capability is delivered as firmware. Virtual prototypes of hardware for memory controllers, and the systems within which they operate, enable software to be developed months ahead of...
Team ESL Blog
Creating SystemC TLM-2.0 Peripheral Models
Published. July 14, 2011Over two years ago, I made some experiments and raised some requirements for an effective Virtual Platform IP authoring tool. Even with the passage of time, some people seem to find it useful as I regularly get questions about it. It is more than time to give you an update, and the good news is that such a tool is now available as part of the new Cadence Virtual System Platform (VSP) product. One of the capabilities provided by the Virtual System Platform is a tool to enable easy authoring of Virtual...
Team genIES Blog
Update to the OVM Register Package
Published. November 29, 2011OVM users have something new to give thanks for this holiday season -- an update to the OVM Register Package (new link!!). This package is used by novice and advanced users and embodies years of experience gathered through hundreds of SystemVerilog projects.The Cadence genIES team has been remiss since the demise of the OVM World, which left the OVM community to use OVM_RGM 2.5. We did try to post to UVM World, but that is really dedicated to the UVM. Therefore, we will be picking...
Tom Anderson's Blog
Some Final Real-World Assertions for the Holidays
Published. December 20, 2011My last "real-world assertions" blog post seems to have tickled a bunch of people with my story about the racy narration at the historic Red Fort in Delhi. I've heard from several folks who have also seen the show and had a similar reaction. Just out of curiosity, I did a Web search and found a half-dozen or so other blogs and travelogues with comments similar to mine. Concluding my series, and in the spirit of the holiday season, here are a few final amusing incidents related to shopping...
On Verification
Getting the last 20%
Published. July 7, 2010I am happy to write that Nusym’s pioneering coverage convergence technology is now part of Synopsys. Over the years, I’ve seen the “long pole” in verification schedules shift based on the evolution of verification technologies and chip architectures. A few years ago one of the long poles was writing tests – it was nearly impossible [...]...
Listening Post
YouTube Helps Engineers
Published. September 30, 2011The channel that gets to close our series on how social media helps engineers is YouTube. The only social media platform that we never hear anyone complain about or say they would never use is YouTube. Why is that you ask? Because everyone loves video! If you don’t have a Facebook page, refuse to open [...]...
Coverage is my Friend
High Level Coverage
Published. November 1, 2011Unless you’ve completely isolated yourself from the wisdom of Verification and EDA pundits, you must have heard at some point that High Level Verification and High Level Synthesis are the way of the future. This has been true for at least the past 10 years and most likely is still going to be true for [...]...
Nigel Dessau
Top 10 List – Things You Might not Know about AMD Fusion APUs
Published. August 22, 2011I don’t typically blog about AMD news, but couldn’t help myself today because today represents a new chapter in the Fusion era of computing. We have updated our award-winning (see No. 9 below) C- and E-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) … Continue reading...
RF/Microwave Tracker
Teardown Signals Transition from GaAs to CMOS Power Amplifiers In 3G Handsets
Published. November 30, 2012Although, working CMOS based 3G RF power amplifiers (PAs) were demonstrated several years ago, the transition from 2G to 3G handsets has not been that easy for CMOS. Concerns over performance have severely limited its progression in the 3G space. … Continue reading →...
EmbeddedPC
Don’t get tied up in knots with your cables!
Published. September 28, 2011It always seems like it’s the little things that often cause the most problems with your embedded system. The more I work with electronic systems, the more respect and care I have developed for cables and interconnect systems. This goes … Continue reading →...
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