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Agile Analog Makes the Analog Parts of SoC Design Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

I sometimes joke that I’d bend over backwards to be flexible and that I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous (I didn’t say they were good jokes). Now, following a recent excursion into wibbly-wobbly analog space (where no one can hear you scream), I’m tempted to say that I’d jump through hoops to be more agile.

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Metaspectral Takes AI Processing of Hyperspectral Imaging by Storm

Do you know any jokes suitable for young kids? The reason I ask is that there are three girls aged 8, 7, and 3 living next door to me. Whenever they see me pottering around outside, the two older girls race over to tell me their latest and greatest jokes and puns (the youngest one toggles along behind to make sure I haven’t forgotten that she’s three … Read More → "Metaspectral Takes AI Processing of Hyperspectral Imaging by Storm"

A Billion Instances and Counting – Solving the Challenges of IC Design Closure

Integrated circuits once again take center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! Brandon Bautz (Cadence Design Systems) and I chat about the challenges of IC design closure today, how distribution and optimization can help address these growing design challenges, and the details of the Cadence® Certus™ Closure Solution. Also this week I investigate a new soft robot developed by Cornell University that can detect damage and heal … Read More → "A Billion Instances and Counting – Solving the Challenges of IC Design Closure"

Automation and the Future of IC Design for Test

What do IC design for test, the Tessent multi-die software solution and the best semiconductor material of all time have in common? This week’s podcast of course! My guest Vidya Neerkundar (Siemens) and I discuss trends in the IC industry today, the unique testing challenges for today’s cutting edge integrated circuits and why automation for 2D and 3D IC design-for-test is the way of the future. Also … Read More → "Automation and the Future of IC Design for Test"

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IoT and The Power of PSpiceToday's IoT designs demand some complex mixed-mode, mixed-signal simulation to be sure that they'll work correctly across wide ranges of component variation, temperature, and other real-world conditions. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton chats with John Carney of Cadence Design Systems about PSpice mixed-signal simulation for IoT.
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Reduce Project Schedules and Increase Quality using Model Driven Development for Design, Verification, and TestThis paper shows how Model Driven Development can address common challenges in the system design, verification & testing of complex systems. Project success requires that hardware, software, and test teams fluently integrate application software, controlling firmware, analog and digital hardware, and mechanical components, which often proves to be costly in terms of time, money, and … Read More → "Reduce Project Schedules and Increase Quality using Model Driven Development for Design, Verification, and Test"
Concept to X: Ten Steps to Effective Model Driven DevelopmentModel Driven Development is proven to improve productivity in the design process. It makes it possible to use models all the way down the flow, automatically generating parts of the design and thus improving the design’s quality by bringing in repeatability and standards compliance. It enables actions such as eliminating physical prototypes from the process, … Read More → "Concept to X: Ten Steps to Effective Model Driven Development"