Sensor Processing, How Hard Can It Be?
When I think back back just a few years ago, there were only a handful of devices that noticeably responded to changes in their environment by sensing the presence of something or a change in position....
View ArticleFind Everything You Need to Build an Advanced PCI Express 4.0 Solution in One...
The PCI-SIG Developers Conference happening today and tomorrow will be yet another exciting PCI-SIG event that Cadence is proud to participate in. We’ve been attending and showcasing technology at...
View ArticleCadence IP for USB Works over Type-C (Proof Inside)
There is no other specification in the history of USB that caused so much discussion and interest as the USB Type-C. The new type of connector, designed to be a jack of all trades, eliminates all flaws...
View ArticleCall for Papers for MemCon Closes This Friday
You still have a chance to get a paper accepted at the premier conference for memory technology—MemCon 2015.Yes, on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, the brightest minds in memory technology will meet again...
View ArticleUSB Type-C Interoperability Workshop—True, Real-Life Validation
There’s no denying that USB Type-C is the fastest adopted specification in the history of USB. Just by looking at the number of companies implementing the specification that was released only 10 months...
View Article10 New Protocols to Design and Integrate Your SoC in Record Time
This month we released 10 new Verification IP for leading-edge protocols! Did I say 10? Yet again, we continue to be first in the market with support for protocols used in leading-edge applications...
View ArticleLess is More With MIPI I3C
There is little doubt that Internet of Things has become the next big thing in business, in particular in semiconductor IP. The growing number of devices monitoring and adjusting our surroundings –...
View ArticleMIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond
MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and BeyondThe word “beyond” may bring up thoughts of the new Star Trek Beyond movie, or for those of you who are fascinated by real space travel, the National Aeronautics and...
View ArticleHoloLens Is at the Tip of the Tensilica Iceberg, With Processors That Scale...
Microsoft provided details of their HoloLens HPU at HotChips this week, revealing the use of 24 optimized Tensilica processors to speed up all the sensor processing by up to 200x. The media has taken...
View ArticleDisplayPort 8K in Olympics 2020
If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the last couple of weeks glued to the TV, watching the 2016 Olympics in Rio, cheering madly every time a favorite athlete was competing. In our household, the...
View Article3 Things You Didn't Know About MemCon 2016
Memcon is an event like few others, where SoC architects congregate to learn and debate the strategies of system design to keep up with the insatiable data/throughput demands of today’s electronics....
View ArticleA Winning Strategy: Ethernet 10Base-T to Ethernet 400G!
Ethernet was developed in the 1970s and has been a viable communications protocol for over 40 years. Ethernet was initially used to connect computer systems and peripherals in a local area network...
View Article3 Reasons That the Semiconductor Clouds Are Gathering
With cloud technology going vertical, everything is changing. The world is connected like never before—managing and processing large amount of data, every single second. Augmented/Virtual Reality is...
View ArticleGenie in a Mouse Click: Indago Protocol Debug App
Do you remember what life was like before the internet and smart phones? If you wanted to find information about something, you had to go to the library and find a book that could answer your question,...
View ArticleBluetooth 5: Making Your Smart Home a Reality
We all know the futuristic vision of the world just around the corner. The vision where we tell our smart home that we’ve just left work at the end of a long day, and we’re heading home. Our home then...
View ArticleThree New Memory Trends in Enterprise Data Centers
You might have seen the graph below about the increase in monthly internet traffic around the world. Ever wondered what was causing it? If you think all that traffic is simply due to people...
View ArticleMemory Trends for Automotive Markets
Remember automobiles from a few years ago? They were pretty simple machines with lots of small microprocessors distributed across the whole vehicle and doing fairly simple tasks. Semiconductors have...
View ArticleUSB Type-C: Let’s Get Real
Have you tried a product incorporating the new USB Type-C port? Do you wonder how well it works? I recently bought a new laptop and monitor that support this interface. In fact, Type-C is the only port...
View ArticleNew VIP for ARM AMBA 5 CHI Issue B
In coordination with the announcement of the new ARM® AMBA® 5 Coherent Hub Interface Issue B, Cadence is announcing the availability of its AMBA 5 CHI Issue B Verification IP (VIP) to address the...
View ArticleWhat Will It Take to Bring DNN to Embedded?
If you missed Michelle Mao’s presentation at the recent Autosens conference in Detroit, “What Will It Take to Bring DNN to Embedded?”, you missed an important evaluation of how designers can do four...
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