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Mobile World Congress: A Decade of Change in IP Innovation
BARCELONA, Spain—In the past decade, immense change has come to mobile electronic system design. Steve Roddy should know. He’s had a ringside seat to those changes—and Mobile World Congress—for...
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IP Requirements for Verifying CHI-Based Designs
Just as IP components offload design effort, verification IP (VIP) components offload verification effort. VIP components are used to monitor traffic and substitute for selected master and slave...
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Mobile World Congress: Two New Audio IP Announcements
BARCELONA, Spain—Mobile World Congress is not surprisingly focused on mobile devices, applications, and services. And the Cadence Tensilica team, which has been attending this event for a decade,...
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ARM-Cadence IP Deal Propels Engineering Innovation Ahead: Martin Lund
On March 18, Cadence and ARM announced a groundbreaking deal that provides reciprocal access to relevant IP portfolios from the Cadence IP Group and ARM. The agreement grants both companies rights to...
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Link Training: Establishing Link Communication Between DisplayPort Source and...
Link training is the first stepping stone to enabling the communication channel between source and sink devices. This is where the electrical characteristics of the link along with the bitrate are...
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Mobile World Congress: Enabling Systems with Sensor Fusion, DSPs
BARCELONA, Spain—We hear a lot about sensor fusion and the applications that it can enable. But conquering the technical hurdles while keeping your project on budget is non-trivial.“What you’re going...
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Call for Papers for MemCon Now Open
What’s the biggest conference for everything related to memories? If you answered MemCon, you’d be right. MemCon 2015 is on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The call for...
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Sign Up for Linley Mobile Conference – See Chris Rowen
If you’ve never heard of the Linley Mobile Conference, you’ve been missing out on one of the most influential conferences for design innovation for next-generation mobile devices. Registration is now...
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Next-Generation DDR4 and LPDDR4 IP in TSMC 16FF+ Enable 200Gb+ Data Transfers...
Consumer demand for entertainment and communication is changing the architecture of your electronic devices. And Cadence is providing key IPs necessary for SoC developers to quickly bring their...
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Interconnect Validator and its Significance
Many of today’s SoCs are built around multi-layered, sophisticated interconnect IP components that link together multiple processor cores, caches, memories, and dozens of other IP blocks. These...
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CDNLive IP Track Presentations Available Online
With more than 100 presentations, live product demos, designer expo, and numerous engaging technology discussions, CDNLive Silicon Valley 2015 was a networking opportunity worth joining. And since...
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Don’t Miss Embedded Vision Summit on May 12
One of the best, most insightful (no pun intended) conferences each year is the Embedded Vision Summit, May 12, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, not far from Cadence’s HQ offices. If you...
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Speed, Function, and Technology as Key Factors for USB Applications
USB is regarded as the world’s most popular serial interface, with over 1 billion devices shipping every year. This means there are a lot of players in the market, and many possible applications. From...
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Indago Protocol Debug and IP Verification
Nothing beats knowing, a late electronics-industry veteran used to say. That’s no more crucial than in debug, where Cadence has recently rolled out the new Indago Debug Platform to attack the biggest...
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How to Design to the ‘Always-on’ IoT Imperative
I’ll never forget covering a presentation that then-National Semiconductor CEO Brian Halla gave about a dozen years ago.He talked of a time when electronics would be everywhere, taking in the analog...
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IP is BIG at the Design Automation Conference, June 7-11, in San Francisco
Think that DAC is all about EDA tools? Not anymore. This year there are over 100 presentations in the IP track, plus other sessions that are all about IP. After all, it’s almost impossible to find a...
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Three Steps for USB Application Success – Design, Verify, Certify
With the USB protocol being so popular nowadays (and frankly speaking, was there ever a time it wasn’t?), there are many advantages of enabling USB in an application, like versatility, ease of use,...
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How Ethernet Standards Are Born
I attend IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards meetings and blog about them from time to time. (For past blog posts, see the list at the bottom of this post).The most recent 802.3 meeting was held in...
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Designing a Google Ara Module and Worrying About MIPI UniPro?
So you've looked at Google project ARA and you have the most brilliant idea for a module that would be the hardware answer to Angry Birds, you take the next step and download the Module Developers Kits...
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Tensilica Team Wins DAC 2015 Best Paper Award
Cadence’s Tensilica team was honored with the Best Paper Award at the IP track at the Design Automation Conference last week for “Design in the Eye of the Hurricane—Building Optimal Vision Processing...
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