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The big news about PCIe 6.0 is that the specification has been released by the PCI-SIG. I covered some of PCIe 6.0 in my post The History of PCIe: Getting to Version 6 , although a lot of that post was about earlier versions of the standard. More rece...

2021 was famous for some of the worst security issues (accompanied by obligatory picture of bad guy in a black hoodie): The very first blog post of the year covered SolarWinds. See my post The Biggest Security Breach Ever . The middle of the year saw...

There are a lot of commonalities between computational fluid dynamics (CFD), software, and chip design. All of them create a specification of the object of interest, and eventually use that representation as part of the manufacturing process. In betw...

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Breakfast Bytes will not appear and so today, the last post before the holiday, I go offtopic. Not too far off-topic, since this affects blogging as well as being amusing. Headlines and Titles One problem with he...

The annual Jasper User Group was held in November. I've already written several posts about the event: Jasper User Group Preview Announcing Jasper C2RTL App: Formal for Algorithmic Designs Datapath Formal Verification 101: Technology and Techniq...

This is part 2 of my post on DAC and RISC-V from December. The first post is here . This post will cover Krste's presentation and then Calista back at the end to wrap up the conference and talk about the future. Krste Krste started on a similar ...

Due to the pandemic, events that normally occur earlier in the year all piled up in December. The Design Automation Conference, SEMICON West, and the RISC-V Summit all took place in the second week of December, with the International Electron Devices...

CES was and is officially hybrid, with some events on-site in Las Vegas and some online. But many of the large exhibitors pulled out of attending in person (including Cadence, although we might be a big exhibitor at DAC but at CES we are tiny). A lot...

At the recent 2021 TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum, there were two special presentations by TSMC "before" the usual partner presentations. I put "before" in quotes since the event was virtual, so in practice, you could watch stuff in any...

If this post seems like a bit of déja vu, that's because it is. The 6th Cadence Photonics Summit was scheduled for December. Unfortunately, that was the day that part of a major web hosting provider went down for half-a-day, and took our video...

At the recent TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum, there were two special presentations by TSMC "before" the usual partner presentations. I put "before" in quotes since the event was virtual, so in practice, you could watch stuff in any orde...

Happy New Year! It's 2022, and I like to ease into the year gently and see what this year is the "year of." The United Nations always selects a couple of areas, and there are events all over the world during the year. International Year...

https://youtu.be/4FrodxxmPxQ Made in Catskills NY (camera Carey) Monday: Log4J: 2021 Ends the Same Way It Began Tuesday: CES 2022: Cadence Will Be there In-Person with Lots of Tensilica Applications Wednesday: December Update: NVIDIA/Arm, S...

UPDATE: Cadence will not attend the Consumer Electronics Show in-person as originally planned. Do you know what Christmas crackers are? You can buy them on Amazon, and perhaps elsewhere, but they are not really a thing in the US. But you'd be ha...

It's the last Friday of the month so time for the December update. But actually, of course, it is neither the last week of the month nor a Friday. But Cadence is shut down from 24th December to 3rd January. Tomorrow, as is now traditional before a br...

UPDATE: This post is out of date since Cadence will not be attending CES in person. CES 2022 is coming up from January 5th to 8th 2022. This is the event you probably think of as the Consumer Electronics Show, but these days its official name is just...

2021 opened with the discovery of the Solar Winds breach, which I wrote about on January 5th in my very first post of the year The Biggest Security Breach Ever . There were various updates as the whole story became clearer. So it seems appropriat...

On September 9th, Tesla held a "Battery Day." Elon Musk also gave an update on the status of the models, the factories, the software, and so on. I embedded a video of the whole day at the end of this post. I think the whole presentation is ...

This morning, the ESD Alliance of SEMI and IEEE CEDA announced that our new CEO, Anirudh Devgan is the recipient of the 2021 Phil Kaufman Award. Since Anirudh became CEO just yesterday, it might seem that Anirudh is receiving the award before he...

Today, Cadence has a new CEO as Anirudh Devgan takes the baton from Lip-Bu Tan. In some ways, this is a big change. Anirudh becomes CEO today, and Lip-Bu transitions to being executive chairman of the board. In other ways, it is not as big an event ...

At the recent SEMICON West event, there was a media luncheon, which sounds rather grander than box lunches with sandwiches. Ajit Manoja, SEMI's CEO and president, kicked off the proceeding with a preview of what was coming in yesterday's press releas...

On the Wednesday of DAC, Joe Costello was back giving a keynote. The last time was in 2017 when he was CEO of Enlighted (since acquired by Siemens). Joe said it was the first time he'd given any sort of speech since the start of Covid. But before...

You've probably heard that datacenters worldwide consume a huge amount of energy, and they do. The numbers vary depending on the source (and the data center) but a round number is that a data center consumes 100 MW. This number comes from the Ene...

One problem with battery-powered devices is that we increasingly expect them to interact with us without us pressing physical buttons. Our phone knows it is in our pocket. We can wake it up with a wake-word. Smart doorbells need to decide if there is...

Historically at DAC, a large part of the booth was taken up by the Cadence Theatre where customers (and some Cadence people) would present their experiences in different market segments and with different tools. We decided this year to do it on video...