Panasonic Agrees to Help Tesla Build Its Gigafactory
Published. July 31, 2014

Panasonic support is crucial if Tesla is to make the world’s largest factory for making electric car batteries.Tesla Motors says it has reached an agreement with Panasonic, a major lithium-ion battery supplier based in Japan, to help the electric car maker build a previously announced massive battery factory. The factory, which Tesla calls a gigafactory, is expected to be able to produce more batteries than all current lithium-ion battery factories combined....

Blog Post: Multi-channel DC/DC (POL) solutions for audio/visual systems
Published. July 31, 2014

When I started working in the IC industry many years back, I imagined a trend of higher integration with everything but the kitchen sink in one IC.  That’s why I chose to work for a semiconductor company.  I expected all electronics products would consist of one IC under its hood at the end of my career.  I was just a young kid when I thought that my portable CD player will be one IC and today, it’s not a CD player anymore, just a few ICs make a good music player. ...

vertical roller mil operation in cement industry
Published. July 30, 2014

To reduce 60 % of eco-friendly residence gasoline within our nation, we wish to cut back the sulfur dioxide emission in electric power plant and steel plant, Raymond mill plays a wonderful aspect in processing industrial uncooked material and in electrical energy production, The development of effectiveness will likely be ......

Denali Memory Blog

Cadence PCIe Solutions: Configurable, Compliant, and Low Power
Published. July 29, 2014

Cadence was the first IP provider to bring PCIe Gen3 Controllers to the market. Since then, our PCIe offerings have evolved to include the lowest power PHY solutions available, FPGA platforms for prototyping, software drivers, and the industry’s leading verification IP. Compliance: Last year, the PCI-SIG began official Gen3 compliance testing. The Cadence PCIe controller achieved Gen3 compliance in 2013. In March 2014, we achieved compliance with our Gen3 controller using a Cadence platform...

Laptops and Desktops Blog

Stanford scientists discover breakthrough to boost battery life for mobile devices
Published. July 29, 2014

The creation of a "pure" lithium battery could offer double or triple the energy storage density of today's lithium-ion batteries for your laptop, tablet, or smartphone....

Electronics Engineering Video Blog Podcast

Graphene / Lithium Ion Capacitor Kickstarter BS
Published. July 28, 2014

I’ve had a lot of people ask me to comment on THIS project in Kickstarter. It was supposed to be a rechargeable battery based on Lithium Ion Capacitor technology. Ok, cool, nothing wrong with that, sounds good. A guy has mated a Lithium Ion Capacitor with a small custom regulator and fitted it into a […]...

PCB Signal and Power Integrity Tech Corner

Back side cap mounting
Published. July 28, 2014

Earlier this year I wrote an article on maximizing capacitor effectiveness.  I have since received a number of inquiries on mounting capacitors directly to a power via on the opposite side of the board from the IC.  This is actually a fairly common design practice that I have seen on many boards.  And, the question […]...

Linux and Open Source

Avoid the Android vampire apps
Published. July 18, 2014

Some Android applications will drain your smartphone or tablet of battery life, storage or bandwidth like a blood-sucking fiend. Here's what's what with the worst of the worst....

Tech Deseign Forums Blog

CEVA buys RivieraWaves for low-power Bluetooth and WiFi IP
Published. July 9, 2014

With an eye on the markets for wearables and the internet of things (IoT), digital signal processing specialist IP company CEVA has bought RivieraWaves, a France-based supplier of WiFi and Bluetooth cores, in a deal worth an expected $19m....

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 […]...

#MEMS: "Knowles Claims Worlds Lowest Power Mic"
Published. July 6, 2014

Voice activated and other sound oriented functions requires that the microphone be always-on, but Knowles has figured a way to do it with only 235 microAmps--keeping it ahead of the pack: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLogThe world's lowest-power MEMS mic at just 235-microAmps measures a scant 3.50 x 2.65 x 0.98 millimeters.Further Reading...

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) […]...

All About Microsoft

Microsoft delivers Surface Pro 2, Surface 2 firmware updates
Published. June 10, 2014

Microsoft has released a handful of battery life, Miracast and other updates for its Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2 tablets as part of its June Patch Tuesday....

All About Microsoft

Microsoft delivers Surface Pro 2, Surface 2 firmware updates
Published. June 10, 2014

Microsoft has released a handful of battery life, Miracast and other updates for its Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2 tablets as part of its June Patch Tuesday....

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 […]...

Open Source Initiative blogs

Why should I care about privacy, when I have nothing to hide?
Published. June 6, 2014

Published by Reset The Net on 30 April 2014 We get this a lot. There are a million answers (our favorite short one is “Nothing to hide? Really?”) but here’s something thoughtful and comprehensive to share with a friend the next time it comes up. The short version? None of the freedom and progress we’ve won over the past century would have been possible without the freedom to change things (starting with our own lives first) that privacy gives us. Imagine a world where you were constantly...

Green Hills Software

Green Hills Software Expands INTEGRITY Multivisor Support to Texas Instruments' Newest 'Jacinto 6' Automotive Processor
Published. June 4, 2014

Provides Guaranteed Safety Separation, Secure Virtualization and Boot-Time Performance for 'Jacinto 6 Eco' DRA72x...

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 →...

John Day

Roads of the Future – Electric, Solar, or Something Else?
Published. May 29, 2014

Volvo wants to study the potential for electric roads able to charge city buses. Working with the Swedish Transport Administration and the City of Gothenburg it will propose building a 300- to 500-meter road section equipped with inductive wireless charge technology and developing vehicles that will automatically charge their batteries when passing the section. The […]...

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...

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....

Verification Horizons Blog

Mentor Enterprise Verification Platform Debuts
Published. April 10, 2014

Its always fun to take the wraps off of solutions we have been hard at work developing.  The global team of Mentor Graphics engineers have spent considerable time and energy to bring the next level of SoC design and verification productivity to what seems to be a never ending response to Moore’s Law.  As silicon […]...

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...

Branden Williams' Security Coverage Blog

PCI Compliance, 4e!
Published. March 5, 2014

You read that right! The Fourth Edition of the book is now green-lit, and Anton & I are hard at work bringing you new updates for PCI DSS 3.0, the SAQs, and two new chapters focused entirely on Cloud/Virtualization and Mobile. We expect the book to be out later this year through your favorite channels. […]...

scalability.org

Just created a new external dns on Digital Ocean
Published. March 4, 2014

About 2 years ago, we had an issue with an internal server blowing up, taking data and config with it. I resolved to place some of our core infrastructure (external DNS, etc.) beyond our virtual boundaries, so we could maintain email/web presence in the event of a power or server issue. This has proven to […]...

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...

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...

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"...

Re: create power and ground pins
Published. June 18, 2013

A new-ish command called "createPGPin" was created to do this. Do you see that available in the version you're using?Hope so... ...

Re: create power and ground pins
Published. June 18, 2013

A new-ish command called "createPGPin" was created to do this. Do you see that available in the version you're using?Hope so... ...

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...

New Specman Coverage Engine - Extensions Under Subtypes
Published. May 28, 2013

This 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,...

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...

Robin Bornoff's Blog

Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 2: TIM Thermal Conductivity
Published. February 6, 2013

The temperature rise that electronic components attain in operation is due to 3 things. The power that they dissipate, the ambient temperature surrounding the product and the various thermal bottlenecks that the heat passes through on its journey from the source to the ambient. An accurate simulation requires all 3 aspects to be modelled correctly. [...]...

“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 [...]...

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...

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...

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 targets....

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...

Webinar by XtremeEDA on system realization on September 8th
Published. September 6, 2010

The first webinar in the series of webinars organized by Cadence with the System Realization Alliance partners is by XtremeEDA on September 8th at 10AM Pacific time. To register click here.About the WebinarDesigning integrated circuits from RTL brought about a revolution in semiconductor design about 15 years ago. It was much simpler than assembling transistors by hand. The new methodology made it possible to hire people with less transistor/logic experience and qualifications to do the job...

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...

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/rmBhhAs anyone who has worked with ARM's AMBA 4 AXITM Coherency Extensions -- a/k/a the "ACETM" 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...

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...