Great Progress with Ethernet Standards Development
The IEEE 802 local area networking standards committee held its plenary meeting in Dallas recently at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. As a historical side, here is a photograph of the Hyatt from Dealey Plaza,...
View ArticleLatest Developments in Ethernet Standards
Cadence is committed to supplying Ethernet silicon and verification IP to help its customers develop Ethernet solutions. The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards committee recently held an interim meeting in...
View ArticleMy Love-Hate Relationship with Mobile World Congress
My friends are jealous. I get an all-expense-paid trip to Barcelona, Spain to see the latest and greatest mobile technology at Mobile World Congress (MWC). They don't believe it when I tell them I...
View ArticleAndroid Audio Offload Explained at Mobile World Congress
Want to lower power in your next AndroidTM device? Look to the industry's first Android-compatible technology for a licensed audio DSP. The Tensilica® HiFi Audio Tunneling for Android takes full...
View ArticleMIPI Protocols—Making Mobile Happen at MWC
MIPI protocols are expected to ship in over 4 billion mobile devices this year. That's billion with a "b".Every year, new products are introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Without MIPI...
View ArticleRealTek Shows New HiFi-based Codec with Software from Sensory and ForteMedia
Watch these demonstrations of RealTek's new ALC5677 audio codec - which uses HiFi EP running software from Sensory and ForteMedia.In the above demo, Jason from RealTek shows how ForteMedia's iS620...
View ArticleCadence Announces Verification IP for MIPI SoundWire™ and C-PHY
Anyone who has been involved in designing mobile devices in recent years is familiar with the MIPI alliance -- a non-profit organization, which took the mission to standardize all interfaces of mobile...
View ArticleDon’t Miss Embedded Vision Summit West on May 29
Embedded Vision Summit West 2014 on May 29 at the Santa Clara Convention Center provides a unique opportunity for engineers to learn about the hottest technology in the electronics industry: embedded...
View Article400G Task Force, 100G Backplane Project and Other Highlights from IEEE 802.3...
Here is another report from an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards meeting, this time held in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk has a large naval base and, while I was there, I got to see the USS Cole and the...
View ArticleIP at DAC? You Bet!
This year, the Design Automation Conference (June 1-5 in San Francisco) has put a lot of effort into great content for IP buyers, and Cadence has great plans to highlight our IP. Here are some of the...
View ArticlePCIe Gen4 LIVE Demo at PCI-SIG DevCon Next Week
The PCI-SIG has (FINALLY) released the PCIe 4.0 rev 0.3 specification for members' review, just in time for the annual Developer Conference at Santa Clara, CA, next week (June 4-5).The Gen4 spec was...
View ArticleEthernet in Cars - The Next Big Thing for Ethernet
Ethernet is coming to cars. Cars now have rear-view cameras and infotainment systems which require video to be transported at a high data rate. Ethernet is the best technology to carry this data....
View ArticleCadence PCIe Solutions: Configurable, Compliant, and Low Power
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...
View ArticleNew VIP RAKs Help in Learning Integration of Ethernet GMII and M-PCIe into...
There is always a demand for learning something simply and quickly on your own in some corner of the world. The big challenge that I have faced with learning is how to find the right learning vehicle...
View ArticleVerification IP: 7 Things I Learned By Browsing Cadence Online Support Last...
Using proven Cadence Verification IP (VIP), you can verify SoC designs faster, more thoroughly, and with less effort. While innovating and providing great products and technologies, the VIP team at...
View ArticleIoT Focus: Natural User Interface Design Crucial to Success
Each era of electronics innovation is generally marked by a dominant end application: Mil/Aero (1960-70s), Computing/PCs (1980s), Communications (1990s), Internet/Mobile (2000s). And each-for the most...
View ArticleHighlights from Recent IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Standards Meeting
I wanted to share with you a number of updates from last month's IEEE 802.3 meeting in San Diego, California. Cadence has a comprehensive portfolio of design and verification IP, many of which support...
View ArticleChallenges and Applications in a 3D World
As the 3-D memory market matures, it continues to incubate new application opportunities and confront new challenges.Some of the challenges faced by 3D memory adoption range from technology to cost...
View ArticleIoT Focus: Wrestling with the Design, Time to Market, and Cost Challenges of IoT
You know we live in astonishing times when you can start your car by talking into your phone. But the era of the Internet of Everything--for all the great technology it has begun to enable--is filled...
View ArticleHow Do You Build a Wi-Fi 802.11ac Programmable Modem?
The Tensilica® group at Cadence has just published a 37-page application note on a Wi-Fi 802.11ac transceiver used for WLAN (wireless local area network), and it's full of really useful information....
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