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Sunday Brunch Video for 16th February 2020

By Paul McLellan | 16 Feb 2020

https://youtu.be/uc_vrZsq-2I Made in Cadence parking lot (camera Steve Brown) Monday: Benedict Evans 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Tuesday: Benedict Evans 2020: Regulating the Giants Wednesday: System Analysis: Computational Software...

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Quines on Valentine's

By Paul McLellan | 14 Feb 2020

Monday is President's Day and Cadence is off so, as has become traditional, I write about something off-topic the day before. Today's topic is self-reproducing programs. A self-reproducing program is also known as a Quine. The term Quine was ...

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Under the Hood of Clarity and Celsius Solvers

By Paul McLellan | 13 Feb 2020

Yesterday, in my post System Analysis: Computational Software at Scale, I talked about computational software at scale and the three aspects that Cadence is delivering: Algorithms that operate on unimaginably huge amounts of data Scaling algori...

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celsius | computational software | clarity
System Analysis: Computational Software at Scale

By Paul McLellan | 12 Feb 2020

In about 2000, when I was the VP of Strategic Marketing for Cadence, I got a strange voicemail that started "This is Regis McKenna...". If you are old enough, you know that Regis, and his PR firm Regis McKenna Inc, was a legend in&nbsp...

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celsius | Matrix | intelligent system design | clarity
Benedict Evans 2020: Regulating the Giants

By Paul McLellan | 11 Feb 2020

This is the second post about Benedict Evans' annual big presentation about the internet. Part 1 appeared yesterday in my post Benedict Evans 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants . Regulation We connected everyone... including the bad people....

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benedict evans | mobile | regulation
Benedict Evans 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

By Paul McLellan | 10 Feb 2020

For the last five or six years, Benedict Evans worked at Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z) and would do a big presentation on the state and future of the internet at the end of each year. He recently left a16z to return to the UK (he's English) and so hi...

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benedict evans | Internet | mobile
Sunday Brunch Video for 9th February 2020

By Paul McLellan | 9 Feb 2020

https://youtu.be/CVbxaO8cVoM Made in Steve's office (camera Steve Brown) Monday: Persistent Memory at Twitter Tuesday: How Technologies Get into EDA Wednesday: The Signal Integrity Story Thursday: Exadata: An Epic Journey at Oracle with Persisten...

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How Is the C Compiler Written in C?

By Paul McLellan | 7 Feb 2020

Often compilers for computer programming languages are written in their own language. This is less true now that so many compilers are based on complete compiler production systems such as LLVM. LLVM is written in C and C++ but has compilers for a hu...

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llvm | compiler | C++
Exadata: An Epic Journey at Oracle with Persistent Memory

By Paul McLellan | 6 Feb 2020

A couple of weeks ago was the Persistent Memory Summit 2020. See my post Persistent Memory: We Have Cleared the Tower for an overview. This week I am covering two presentations, from Twitter and Oracle. There were a number of othe...

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persistent memory summit | exadata | Oracle | optane | persistent memory
The Signal Integrity Story

By Paul McLellan | 5 Feb 2020

Yesterday, I started to talk about how new technologies find their way over time into EDA tools in my post How Technologies Get into EDA . Let's look at signal integrity as an example. We used not to worry about signal integrit...

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celsius | CadMOS | signal integrity | Sigrity | clarity
How Technologies Get into EDA

By Paul McLellan | 4 Feb 2020

When I was last at Cadence around 2000, I ran what was then Custom IC. It was a different grouping from what we call CPG today, I had physical verification (remember Dracula? Vampire? Assura? Diva?) but not PCB. Of course Virtuoso and Spect...

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sales | startups | ambit | signal integrity | salesforce
Persistent Memory at Twitter

By Paul McLellan | 3 Feb 2020

A couple of weeks ago was the Persistent Memory Summit 2020. See my post Persistent Memory: We Have Cleared the Tower for an overview. This week I am going to cover two presentations, one from Twitter and one from Oracle. There were a number of ...

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persistent memory summit | Oracle | optane | Twitter | persistent memory
Persistent Memory: We Have Cleared the Tower

By Paul McLellan | 31 Jan 2020

Last week it was the Persistent Memory Summit 2020, which has been running annually since 2013. Jim Pappas gave the state of the union address to open the summit. Back in 2017, he used a space analogy where you just need to mix hydrazine and nitrogen...

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Quarry Bank Mill: A Technology Museum from the Industrial Revolution

By Paul McLellan | 30 Jan 2020

A couple of years ago (and from time to time since) I wrote a series of blog posts about technology museums. Here are the links: The Intel Museum German Computer Museums British Computer Museums The Computer History Museum Four Early Computers 1&amp...

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Sigrity Aurora: In-Design Analysis

By Paul McLellan | 29 Jan 2020

Cadence's new Sigrity Aurora puts all the power of the Sigrity engines under the Allegro user experience. The new capability allows a team to go from preliminary exploration, through design, to final verification and signoff, all in the context o...

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sigrity aurora | signal integrity | Sigrity
IEDM: Novel Interconnect Techniques Beyond 3nm

By Paul McLellan | 28 Jan 2020

During the short course on the Sunday before IEDM, Chris Wilson of imec presented Novel Interconnect Techniques for Advanced Devices Beyond 3nm. In some ways, this is a complementary presentation to the one given by TSMC that I covered last week in I...

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RIP Clayton Christensen

By Paul McLellan | 27 Jan 2020

Clayton Christensen died last Thursday, at the relatively young age of 67. He was the author of what I think is the best book on strategy for high-tech organizations, The Innovator's Dilemma. I have purchased several copies since I first read it,...

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IEDM: TSMC on 3nm Device Options

By Paul McLellan | 24 Jan 2020

At IEDM in December, Jin Cai of TSMC presented Device Technology for 3nm Node and Beyond during the short course on Sunday. He divided his presentation up into four parts: Historical CMOS scaling trends FinFET improvements Nanosheet advantages ...

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TSMC | IEDM
DesignCon 2020: SI, PCB, Packaging, Photonics

By Paul McLellan | 23 Jan 2020

Next Tuesday through Thursday, January 28 to 30, DesignCon 2020 takes place in the Santa Clara Convention Center. it is actually their 25th anniversary. I think of DesignCon as being about everything other than chip design, but increasingly the focus...

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PCB | DesignCon | signal integrity | OrCAD | Sigrity | Allegro
IEDM: Automating DTCO for 3nm

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jan 2020

At IEDM in December, Lars Liebmann of TEL presented Design Technology Co-Optimization for 3nm and Beyond. The challenge in designing a modern process is that scaling is no longer based on incremental change purely at the process level. Design Te...

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3nm | IEDM | DTCO
A Big Problem with Big Data

By Paul McLellan | 21 Jan 2020

I happened to read a blog post that referred to a 2018 paper in The Annals of Applied Statistics with the title Statistical Paradises and Paradoxes in Big Data: Law of Large Populations, Big Data Paradox, and the 2016 Presidential Election . The ...

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deep learning | big data
Sunday Brunch Video for 19th January 2020

By Paul McLellan | 19 Jan 2020

https://youtu.be/O90mUZyWIeE Made at Lick Observatory (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Details of TSMC's IEDM Presentation on N5 Tuesday: Mark Cuban on Media and AI Wednesday: 5G in 2020 Thursday: Emerging Memory Friday: Off-topic: Picas...

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Off-Topic: Picas, Points, and Printing

By Paul McLellan | 17 Jan 2020

Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr Day, and Cadence will be off. Breakfast Bytes will not appear. And so today is the last day before a holiday, and so I write about something off-topic. Today, printing. In fact, it is not totally off-topic since print...

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Emerging Memory

By Paul McLellan | 16 Jan 2020

SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, organized a webinar recently with industry analysts Tom Coughlin (of Coughlin Associates) and Jim Handy (of Objective Analysis). The webinar was about emerging memories, meaning MRAM (magnetic), ReRA...

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Memory | optane | MRAM | persistent memory | 3dxpoint
5G in 2020

By Paul McLellan | 15 Jan 2020

There is a famous quote, attributed to Mark Twain but more likely said by his friend Charles Dudley Warner: Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. I think that 5G in 2020 is going to be like that. You will hear lots of...

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5G | CES | ces2020

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