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Cadence updates Sigrity tools and license options
Published. January 28, 2015

Cadence Design Systems has added LPDDR4 support and a topology explorer to its Sigrity lineup for signal and power integrity analysis of PCB-based designs, as well as more flexible licensing options....

Blog Post: If you don't scale, you fail: Connected microcontrollers
Published. January 28, 2015

Day 3 of sampling the ultra-low-power MSP430FR6972 FRAM microcontroller and we have another use-case to explain the value of the scalable FRAM MCU portfolio . Yesterday, we talked about the ability to use FRAM -based microcontrollers for data-logging and decision making as a part of a larger system, but there is still a need for wireless connectivity. Texas Instruments offers a number of solutions for adding connectivity to a system including: RF430CL330H dynamic NFC transponder enables static tag...

Denali Memory Blog

Cadence at CES 2015: Enabling Surreal Surround Sound Audio
Published. January 28, 2015

LAS VEGAS—In the cacophony of CES, it’s refreshing to find an escape. I found mine in a set of headphones slipped over my ears. Standing in the Cadence booth chatting with Yipeng Liu, with Cadence audio product marketing,  I’m listening to audio using DTS  Headphone:X technology. As Liu said, “hearing is believing.” If you close your eyes, you find yourself in a room with the audio. It’s a strange experience, but an amazing advance in audio processing...

Laptops and Desktops Blog

Panasonic updates Toughbook 31 laptop with Intel Broadwell processor
Published. January 27, 2015

The rugged notebook now claims battery life of up to 18 hours while retaining its durability features, including protection from drops of six feet....

All About Microsoft

Microsoft readies new free version of its Power BI business intelligence service
Published. January 27, 2015

Microsoft is planning to introduce a free version of its Power BI business-intelligence tools/service, and will cut prices on its new, fully featured Pro version....

All About Microsoft

Microsoft readies new free version of its Power BI business intelligence service
Published. January 27, 2015

Microsoft is planning to introduce a free version of its Power BI business-intelligence tools/service, and will cut prices on its new, fully featured Pro version....

Electronics Engineering Video Blog Podcast

EEVblog #708 – Free Energy BULLSHIT!
Published. January 24, 2015

Are the laws of physics being bent? Dave explains why free energy / over unity / quantum vacuum circuits are bullshit. And how to find out what’s really happening here by using basic engineering principles. Can a bunch of toroids, some wire, and a simple circuit boost converter really generate more power than you put […]...

Resurrecting a Meltdown-Proof Reactor Design
Published. January 22, 2015

A new molten salt nuclear reactor design could make nuclear power safer and more economical.A new take on an old reactor design could make nuclear power cleaner and safer, and therefore more competitive with fossil fuels....

#SOLAR "Simple Paint-on Coating Doubles the Electrons Per Photon"
Published. January 22, 2015

Robin Bornoff's Blog

Domestic Hot Water Heating, ‘Wat-er’ Waste of Energy. Part 4: ‘Wat-er’ Waste of Time
Published. January 21, 2015

Energy isn’t the only thing that is wasted when dealing with hot water supply. Time is as well. The house I live in is nearly 200 years old. It wasn’t a very well made house when it was new and, unlike a good wine, has not got better with time. The retrofitted, refitted, repaired, repaired […]...

Analog Insights

AMS HSPICE SIG dinner during DesignCon 2015: Best-in-class techniques and solutions for Power and Signal Integrity analysis
Published. January 15, 2015

Happy Thursday, I just wanted to remind our dear Synopsys HSPICE users (and other AMS aficionados..) about our yearly HSPICE SIG event. This event has grown other the years and present each year topics related to circuit simulation challenges. Because HSPICE combines transistor-level accuracy with comprehensive signal integrity analysis, and is the golden reference for […]...

Verification Horizons Blog

3 Notable Formal-Related Conference Papers of 2014
Published. January 6, 2015

2014 was an exciting year for formal verification to say the least, and below I call out a sampling of noteworthy conference papers that contributed to this energy. Specifically, they show how formal property checking itself is simultaneously scaling to tackle ever larger verification problems, and also being extended to cover domains that were once exclusively the […]...

Green Hills Software

Green Hills Software Announces Graphics and Virtualization Support for Intel Atom Processor E3800 Product Family
Published. January 6, 2015

INTEGRITY and INTEGRITY Multivisor Enable Innovations in Automotive Electronics...

Using Generative List Pseudo Methods in Constraints – A Case Study
Published. January 6, 2015

This article highlights the use of list pseudo-methods constraining the content of lists, which is relatively new and offers a lot of power in terms of modelling, performance, and debugging. Ethernet-based communication is getting more pronounced today and will continue to do so in the future. This increases the need to be able to verify devices that are capable to handle specific bandwidth requirements. Shaping constrained random Ethernet traffic can be quite complicated, especially if a specific...

Open Source Initiative blogs

November 2014 OSI Newsletter
Published. December 7, 2014

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John Day

2nd International Conference on Advanced Automotive 48V Power Supply Systems
Published. December 1, 2014

According to participants at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Automotive 48V Power Supply Systems in Düsseldorf, Germany, organized by IQPC Automotive, 48V mild hybrid developments are being driven by ever-tightening European CO2 regulations and a new, more aggressive test cycle. There appeared to be a consensus on the need for an internationally accepted 48V […]...

Ned help Java Program
Published. October 30, 2014

I would like to create a class for finding the voltages of 1, 2 or even 4 batteries. The Class can be called BatteryVoltage with a default voltage value of 1.5 (AA Battery) Must allow the user to find the total voltage of batteries when installed as a single,double, or ......

scalability.org

turnkey, low cost and high density 1PB usable at 20+ GB/s sustained
Published. October 29, 2014

Fully turnkey, we’d ship a rack with everything pre-installed/configured. Some de-palletizing required, but its plug and play (power, disks) after that. More details, and a sign up to get a formal quote here. This would be in 24U of rack space for less than $0.18/raw GB or $0.26/usable GB. Single file system name space, a […]...

Branden Williams' Security Coverage Blog

The Role of Evidence-Based Management
Published. October 28, 2014

Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt) is a topic growing in popularity in both the academic and professional worlds for a number of reasons. We’ve never had access to the volume of data that we do today coupled with the processing power available to make sense of it. In addition, we’ve learned that while hunches give us a […]...

10 Encounter Tips and Tricks You May Not Be Aware Of
Published. July 27, 2012

In looking over the shoulders of Encounter users over the years I've found there's a bunch of little tips and tricks I use to make interacting with the tool a little easier that aren't necessarily immediately obvious. Here are some of the more common ones I used this week: When navigating an Encounter log file in a text editor, search forward for " ". Each time a command is executed it's embedded in the log file, for example: " optDesign -preCTS ". This makes it...

ADI Success Verifying SoC Reset Using X-Propagation Technology - Video
Published. January 20, 2014

Analog Devices Inc. succeeded in both speeding up the simulation and debug productivity for verifying SoC reset. In November 2013 at CDNLive India they presented a paper detailnig the new technology they applied to reset verification and eight bugs they found during the project. We were able to catch up with Sri Ranganayakulu just after his presentation and captured this video explaining the key points in his paper. Sri had an established process for verifying reset on his SoC. The challege he faced...

10 Encounter Tips and Tricks You May Not Be Aware Of
Published. July 27, 2012

In looking over the shoulders of Encounter users over the years I've found there's a bunch of little tips and tricks I use to make interacting with the tool a little easier that aren't necessarily immediately obvious. Here are some of the more common ones I used this week: When navigating an Encounter log file in a text editor, search forward for " ". Each time a command is executed it's embedded in the log file, for example: " optDesign -preCTS ". This makes it...

CFD doesn’t mean Color For Directors

A Day at the Zoo
Published. October 7, 2014

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is pretty serious business. Every day it’s used in a wide range of industries around the world to optimize products for some very practical purposes. Cars? Check! Planes? Check. Medical devices, consumer electronics and power generation? Check, check and check.  But sometimes you come across things that make you giggle. And […]...

Measuring Bipolar Transistor ft with Fixed Base-Collector Voltage
Published. June 12, 2012

Recently 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 to...

Frank Schirrmeister Blog

DAC 2014—ESL Design Is Dead... Long Live ESL!
Published. May 27, 2014

Next week the EDA industry is getting together in San Francisco for Design Automation Conference 2014. As I pointed out in a recent blog called " Confessions of an ESL-Aholic ", the scope of electronic system level (ESL) design has changed quite a bit over the last 15 years, but there is still a lot of promise, and a lot to come. The basic premise of my soberness on classic ESL is that the basic momentum upwards in abstraction continues—as indicated in my graph dated ca. 2001 below—raising...

Why the Demand for Acceleration and Emulation is Growing
Published. February 14, 2011

The dream of any marketer is a growing demand for its product line. Let me start this blog by quoting the System Realization (part of the Cadence EDA360 strategy) section from the transcript of the recent (Q4) Cadence earnings call. "In April (2010), we introduced the Verification Computing Platform, enabling emulation, acceleration, and simulation all on one single platform. Customers who are designing SoCs at 40nm and below find this product necessary to meet the time-to-market and quality...

DATE Spotlights System Development University Investment in Europe
Published. March 10, 2011

In this guest blog Markus Winterholer, R&D engineer at Cadence, explains why he's attending the University Booth at the DATE Conference in Grenoble, France March 14-18. I’m getting ready for a busy upcoming week with DATE conference in Grenoble, France. Besides organizing a workshop and a panel about embedded system debug and test, presenting Cadence ESL tools at the Europractice event and helping representing Cadence at GlobalFoundries (booth 1& 2), I’m squeezing customer visits into my...

Intel vs ARM - Did the Embedded Systems Conference India Shed Light on the Battle?
Published. August 5, 2009

Being a Brit, Cricket is never very far from my thoughts especially when travelling to India, the biggest cricket mad nation in the world. There is a saying in cricket that you should always think of doing what the opposition would least like, a statement that applies in business too. I was on my way to present a session on Verifying Embedded SW Power Management” at the Embedded System Conference in Bangalore . With the recent activity by Intel firstly joining forces with TSMC to deliver licensed...

Infinite Playbook for the Verification Superbowl
Published. January 10, 2011

Its 4th and long, you're down by six, the clock is running out, and you are wary of a bug-blitz. What play do you call? With new approach defined by Silicon Realization, the updated Incisive Enterprise Simulator provides the new capabilities to finsh your drive, route the bugs, and win the verification Superbowl. Even before the snap you need to check the environment statically to eliminate bugs. The 700+ rules in the HAL lint support were expanded with new coding and structual checks, as well...

New Product: ARM ACE Assertion-Based Verification IP (ABVIP) Available Now
Published. November 26, 2012

Preface: on Tuesday December 11 we are giving a free a webinar on "ACE Assertion-Based Dynamic, Formal, and Metric-Driven Verification Techniques with ABVIP". Register today: http://goo.gl/rmBhh As anyone who has worked with ARM's AMBA 4 AXI TM Coherency Extensions -- a/k/a the "ACE TM " protocol -- knows, there are a ton of different configuration options and operational scenarios available to the designer. Of course, this flexibility and power presents a significant verification...

Jim Trudeau << The Embedded Beat

MQX Lite is a heavy-weight hitter
Published. October 8, 2012

By Jim Trudeau – The buzz around the Kinetis L series microcontroller (MCU) is really exciting. It combines the low-power, low-cost and ease-of-use of 8-bit, with the energy-efficiency, feature integration and scalability of 32-bit. My colleague Erich Styger wrote about the Freescale Freedom development platform, which is enabled by Kinetis L series KL1 and KL2 MCUs families. The platform […]...

PCB Signal and Power Integrity Tech Corner

The Future of Integrity
Published. September 9, 2014

I have recently been blogging about signal and power integrity, how the two are related, and how they can cross over.  This was prompted by an article I recently wrote for the DesignCon branch of EDN.  Twenty years ago, one of the biggest barriers to designing high-speed PCBs was ensuring signal integrity.  About ten years […]...

Linux and Open Source

Red Hat bids to become a hybrid cloud power
Published. August 25, 2014

Red Hat pushes interoperability with multiple cloud platforms with the latest release of CloudForms 3.1, its hybrid cloud management platform....

Fleet-footed FemtoPHYs – The Smallest USB 3.0 and 2.0 PHYs in the Universe
Published. April 30, 2014

Fast, Fabulous FemtoPHYs (Certified!) The BIG news this week is small.   Our team built the tiny USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 femtoPHY  to save power and area.  50% less area than the previous generation picoPHY.  AND CERTIFIED by the USB-IF At a 50% smaller size, to me it’s like: Being able to eat the same […]...

Linux and the Big Bad Wolf
Published. June 25, 2014

Guest blog by Achim Nohl With great interest, I am following any news around the progress of Linaro and the Linux kernel community with regard to addressing all the requirements for an ARMv8 64bit server software stack. Well established standards, such as the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) […]...

Magic Blue Smoke

Low Power Static Checks
Published. August 12, 2010

There seem to be some confusion about types of checks that need to be performed on a Low Power Design. In the Low Power static check world, following 3 types of analysis can be done on a design, in addition to various other checks. (a) Critique Check     Power State Table is Golden here and […]...

Multi-programmable non-volatile memory on standard 40-nm CMOS
Published. April 17, 2013

A 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 […]...

Conversation Central

Harnessing and Harvesting the Power of Social Media
Published. January 28, 2014

Guest: Eric Nystrom, Director, Social Media, Dell Host: Yvette Huygen, Director Worldwide Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Synopsys Inc. If your browser doesn’t support Flash, click here to download the show and play it locally. The social media revolution has rapidly taken over the business world.  Companies are striving to create social media strategies that work […]...

4G LTE vs. 3G Power Mystery Explained
Published. August 9, 2012

  Last 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 […]...

Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded

The Secret World of USB Charging
Published. May 29, 2014

That USB charger is more sophisticated that you think. It may run communication protocols that tell the plugged in device how to charge its battery, what's the battery's health, and may even take the battery's temperature. Apple, the USB-IF, and other organizations are setting USB charging standards. Continue reading →...

Comment on Facebook Blocked My Posts — But Why? by Shing Wu
Published. May 18, 2014

Facebook are completely full of crap and you really should not be giving them so much power over your social like and personal interactions with other human beings. If you do then your basically making Facebook the God of your life. Sad.....

Legion Meter is Both USB Power Diagnostic Tool & Charge Accelerator
Published. May 15, 2014

Let’s face it, cellphone and tablet charging absolutely stinks, and if they ever get super-capacitor technology baked into an electronic device, we will be […]The post Legion Meter is Both USB Power Diagnostic Tool & Charge Accelerator appeared first on Everything USB....

GROG: Green Tech Blog

Solar Powered Air Conditioners are Becoming More Elaborate
Published. May 8, 2014

Air conditioners can consume an incredible amount of power. Between the electricity the compressor utilizes and the torque of the motor in order to spin the fan, your electric bill can skyrocket over the summer. In order to reduce the cost of this unit, some have installed solar panels onto the roof specific to the […]...

The Moth

Attend my Tech Ed 2014 session: Debugging Tips and Tricks
Published. May 6, 2014

Just a week away, at Tech Ed 2014 NA in Houston Texas, I will be giving a demo presentation that you will not want to miss (assuming you code in Visual Studio). Add it to your calendar now: DEV-B352 Debugging Tips and Tricks in Visual Studio 2013 (link) Monday, May 12 1:15-2:30 PM, Room: General Assembly C As a developer, regardless of your programming language or the platform that you target, you use the debugger on a daily basis. Come to this all-demo session to learn how to make the...

EDA Blog

Flower Technology and EnSilica collaborate on ASIC mining solutions for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
Published. April 17, 2014

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are based on scrypt hashing algorithms (Lifecoin, Auroracoin, Dogecoin, and Mastercoin) are on the rise. Scrypt-based cryptocurrency ASIC mining solution start-up Flower Technologies and eSi-RISC soft processor core and encryption and peripherals company EnSilica have partnered to develop the Orchid, which boasts high hashing speed, energy efficiency, and price/performance for […]...

Mocana Device Blog

PG&E Offers $250K Reward In California Power Grid Attack
Published. April 16, 2014

California’s largest utility, PG&E, is offering a $250K reward leading to the arrest of those responsible for a late night attack on one of its remote substations. As reported in Deviceline previously on April 16, 2013, one day after the attack on the Boston MArathon, one or more people broke into a power substation outside […] The post PG&E Offers $250K Reward In California Power Grid Attack appeared first on Mocana DeviceLine Blog....

Mocana Device Blog

PG&E Offers $250K Reward In California Power Grid Attack
Published. April 16, 2014

California’s largest utility, PG&E, is offering a $250K reward leading to the arrest of those responsible for a late night attack on one of its remote substations. As reported in Deviceline previously on April 16, 2013, one day after the attack on the Boston MArathon, one or more people broke into a power substation outside […] The post PG&E Offers $250K Reward In California Power Grid Attack appeared first on Mocana DeviceLine Blog....

Rands In Repose

Complete Honesty is the Access to Ultimate Power
Published. March 31, 2014

Rebekah Campbell via the New York Times: A study by the University of Massachusetts found that 60 percent of adults could not have a 10-minute conversation without lying at least once. The same study found that 40 percent of people lie on their résumés and a whopping 90 percent of those looking for a date… More#...

Gabe On EDA

Synopsys's ESL Power Analysis
Published. March 18, 2014

Pat Sheridan, Sr. PMM for Synopsys Platform Architect Rich Collins, Sr. PMM ARC Processors and Subsystems In response to my question: "What tools or methods do architects and developers have or should have to define a realistic power budget at the system level?" Pat and Rich offered the following article. read more...

Wireless Sensor Networks Blog

400MHz RF transceiver geared for wireless smart energy apps
Published. February 26, 2014

A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Cubic Micro have developed and demonstrated a 400MHz radio frequency (RF) transceiver that claims to offer the highest power efficiency to deliver high quality signals over the industry’s widest coverage in wireless sensor network applications. The transceiver is integrated with a highly configurable base band that enables users to […]...

Urban Work Bench

Ice Pigging
Published. November 25, 2013

This post is not about farm animal rights, or some cruel porcine-based Japanese reality TV game-show. Check out the video above for a glimpse of the power of a technology recently introduced into the North American Market from the UK. It’s not hard to see from the video above that the pipes are getting cleaned […]This post was written by Mike Thomas for UrbanWorkbench.com ©2006-2014.Originally posted as Ice Pigging...

New Capabilities in the C-to-Silicon Compiler 2013 Releases
Published. January 6, 2014

2013 was a banner year for high-level synthesis and C-to-Silicon Compiler in particular. We saw our customers take on over 75 new projects using C-to-Silicon, much of that coming from expanded adoption within our existing customers. These designs spanned everything from algorithm-intensive designs like image processors to control-dominated designs like H.265 and high-speed cache controllers to various mixtures such as automotive and networking applications. As part of this expansion effort, the...

Soft Talk - Multicore and Parallel Programming

The Power of Open Source
Published. December 18, 2012

Sometimes open source can be a misunderstood part of the software industry – is it made up of developers that are working for free? Or are these developers getting a free education?  Do we have any idea how many people are developing using open source? A recent article by analyst house Forrester showed that five […]...

U.S. to Investigate General Service Lamp Efficiency Standard
Published. December 20, 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just initiated a rulemaking and data collection process focused on developing an energy efficiency standard for general service lamps (GSL). The term GSL covers a wide range of lighting technologies, including incandescent, compact fluorescent (CFLs), light-emitting diode (LED), organic light-emitting diode (OLED), and any other lamps that satisfy [...]...

Brian's Brain

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Features Optimized Power Supply
Published. December 18, 2013

Get an optimized power design for your system with the ARM-based Cyclone V SoC Development Kit. Its Enpirion power increases power efficiency and reduces bill-of-material (BOM) costs while also saving valuable board space...

FPGA Blog

Xilinx and Alpha Data Announce Collaboratively Developed FPGA Acceleration Networking Processing Board
Published. December 2, 2013

Alpha Data’s ADM-PCIE-7V3 FPGA processing card uses a Xilinx-7 FPGA for a power-efficient, high-performance acceleration. The card is targeted to increasing data throughput optimizing computing cluster performance for data center applications. Read more Xilinx and Alpha Data Announce Collaboratively Developed FPGA Acceleration Networking Processing BoardTwitter @fpgablog : : Free Publications : : Jobs : : […]...

Maximum Power Point Conversion for Solar Applications – Training Opp
Published. January 7, 2012

From: http://www.em.avnet.com/evs/home/0,1707,RID%253D0%2526CID%253D50625%2526CCD%253DUSA%2526SID%253D32214%2526DID%253DDF2%2526LID%253D32233%2526BID%253DDF2%2526CTP%253DEVS,00.html Register today to have an Avnet representative contact you to schedule this On-Ramp Technical Session. Microchip has created a solution that allows a product to get the maximum power out of a solar panel to power a remote application. The Maximum Power Point Converter (MPPC) is essentially a DC-to-DC converter. The DC...

Law & Life: Silicon Valley

Powerful Combination for the Future of Computing: FOSS and Cloud
Published. November 14, 2013

The Open Source Summit in Hong Kong last week demonstrates the power of the open source methodology and the OpenStack community. The Summit was the first OpenStack Foundation conference outside of the United States and attracted over 3,000 attendees from over 50 countries (significantly more than the Summit in Portland). OpenStack has grown [...]...

Kiran Bulusu’s Blog

How do you launch a hardware startup?
Published. August 28, 2013

This is a repost of my  answer on Quora . Whether its hardware or software or any product, spend lot of time and energy in customer development . Finding out what users want and think they will pay for is more critical than what we think will be cool for them. Since HW involves lot of capital, […]Related Posts:Personalization of Silicon and need for Design Flow…Framework For Creating An Hardware Startup For EE StudentsStartups: Applying lean methodology and business model…Startup...

The Java Posse

Java Posse #426
Published. August 4, 2013

Roundup ‘13 - Teaching and Mentoring Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Special thanks to D.J. Hagberg and Peter Pilgrim for the excellent show notes for this session. Creating curruculum on GitHub for examples - short, small Coursera Pair Programming LaTeX Beamer Write the code first for examples Presentation Patterns - Book Herding Racehorses & Racing Sheep - Dave Thomas presentation Edward Tufte - separate presentations from a "read-ahead"...

Accelerating Time to Market with ARM Software Development Tools and the Cadence System Development Suite
Published. June 4, 2013

In 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...

Why can’t I get enough current out of this battery charger IC?
Published. March 18, 2013

With 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 [...]...

Joel on Software

Town Car Version Control
Published. March 12, 2013

The team at Fog Creek is releasing a major new version of Kiln today. Kiln is a distributed version control system. One of the biggest new features is Kiln Harmony, which lets you operate on Kiln repositories using either Git or Mercurial. So you can push changes to a Kiln repo using Git and then pull them using Mercurial. This means that you never have to decide whether you want to use Git or Mercurial. Religious war: averted. But, I’m getting ahead of myself! For those of you that have been...

DVCon 2013: Functional Verification Is EDA’s “Killer App”
Published. March 11, 2013

With 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...

Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect

Cloud, mobile adding value to Agile development methods, even in bite-sized chunks
Published. March 8, 2013

Agile software development is increasingly enabling developers to better create applications that meet user needs quickly, and the advent of increased mobile apps development is further accelerating its power....

EUV and eBeam at SPIE ADV Litho 2013
Published. March 1, 2013

While 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, 2013

For 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....

CEA Digital Dialogue

Industry Makes Progress on Set-Top Box Energy Conservation
Published. February 25, 2013

CEA, National Cable & Telecommunications Association works to create savings for American consumers....

Ed Burnette's Dev Connection

On the road to Google I/O 2012
Published. June 26, 2012

Ed wishes fervently for the invention of the matter-energy transporter. Or at least a first class ticket....

Sandro Groganz, Open Source Marketing Consultant

Emotional Branding in Open Source
Published. July 17, 2012

The power of a brand lies in its ability to communicate core product attributes to consumers and evoke an emotional reaction from them. Every marketer knows that emotions can drive purchase decisions and so, a brand that is able to Continue reading →...

John Coyne's Embedded Blog

Compact 7 Webcast–June 19th!
Published. May 21, 2012

  Our 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)...

BCL Team Blog

Overriding part registration conventions with the MEF attributes [Nick]
Published. November 3, 2011

This post discusses features in the preview version of MEF, and some details may change between now and the full release. One of the big advances made in the new MEF preview is a convention-driven programming model aimed at eliminating repetitive attribute usage. In this new model, the MEF attributes like Export and Import have a new role as the clean and powerful mechanism for overriding the registration conventions. Configuration by exception The power in convention-driven rules is that they require...

“Fight the Power!” – No, “Fight the Energy!”
Published. September 30, 2011

For years I have observed a simple confusion between power and energy leading designers to jump to odd conceptions about design alternatives. Power consumption is expressed in units such as milliWatts (mW) consumed over some suitably short interval of time.  To quote our modern oracle, Wikipedia, In its technical sense, power is not at all [...]...

Webinar: SOI Gives More Performance Per Watt, And There's An Easy Path
Published. August 20, 2010

If 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...

India Needs Real-World Assertions Too
Published. November 18, 2011

I've just returned from a week-long trip to India, spending most of my time at the Cadence R&D center in Noida. I was last there a year ago for our CDNLive! India 2010 event, a great show that prompted me to write a glowing blog post. This year's show was covered admirably by my colleague Joe Hupcey, which was fine with me since traveling to India twice in three weeks would be tough even for us seasoned road warriors. This time my focus was strictly on product development and deployment,...

PST Verification – Best Practices
Published. February 4, 2013

When I see around most common electronic devices I find are smartphones, tablets, laptops, televisions. One of the common user need which drives competition among these devices is to conserve battery life and at the same time save/restore the application. From the semiconductor perspective, requirement is translated to “designs should be using advanced low power [...]...

AMD Delivers on Holiday Wish Lists: From Gaming to PCs!
Published. November 16, 2012

With the holidays fast approaching, consumer electronics are on many gift lists. In fact, according to the Consumer Electronics Association , three in four gift-giving adults plan to buy a consumer-electronics product as a gift. From more brilliant graphics when gaming to longer battery life when on the go, AMD-powered products let people do more every day by providing superior computing experiences. Continue reading...