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  • Paul McLellan
    Offtopic: How to Make Spatchcock Chicken Under a Brick
    By Paul McLellan | 15 Jan 2021
    It's Martin Luther King Day on Monday. Cadence is off. Breakfast Bytes will not appear. And, as is traditional, I go completely off-topic the day before a break. In the past, a lot of novelty in eating came from going to restaurants. But I haven&...
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    offtop[ic | cooking
  • Update: Achronix, SolarWinds, Wikipedia, US Fabs
    By Paul McLellan | 14 Jan 2021
    This is another of my occasional update posts, where I revisit some older posts and update them with recent developments, but where there isn't really enough new information to justify a whole new blog post. Achronix Achronix last appeared in Bre...
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    solarwinds | achronix | open source | darpa
  • Paul McLellan
    Cadence/Arm Event on Optimizing High-End Arm Processors in Advanced Nodes
    By Paul McLellan | 13 Jan 2021
    On January 21 from 8:00am to 11:00am (PST), Cadence and Arm are presenting a joint CadenceCONNECT event Building Arm Compute with Cadence Digital Full Flow for Best PPA. Of course, it will be a virtual event, although there will be live Q&A after...
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    Genus | cortex-a78 | neoverse | Innovus | digital full flow | cortex-x1 | ARM
  • Paul McLellan
    IEDM Opening Keynote
    By Paul McLellan | 12 Jan 2021
    At IEDM in December, the opening keynote (technically "Plenary 1") was by Sri Samevadam of imec. His presentation was titled Towards Atomic Channels and Deconstructed Chips. He presented imec's view of the future of semiconductors going forward, both...
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  • Paul McLellan
    Young People Program at DATE 2021
    By Paul McLellan | 11 Jan 2021
    Are you a young person? Are you doing a PhD? Then you should know that Cadence is sponsoring the Young People Program (YPP) at DATE 2021. Not surprisingly, this is being driven by the European part of the Cadence Academic Network. Anton Klo...
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    DATE | Cadence Academic Network | young persons programme | date 2021 | ypp
  • Paul McLellan
    Sunday Brunch Video for 10th January 2021
    By Paul McLellan | 10 Jan 2021
    https://youtu.be/gt4GiLtoJ4M Made at Castle Rock Park (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: DATE 2021: A Virtual Event in the First Week of February Tuesday: The Biggest Security Breach Ever Wednesday: Breakfast Nibbles 2021: Predictions for the Year, part 1 ...
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    sunday brunch
  • Paul McLellan
    Breakfast Nibbles 2021: Predictions for the Year, part 3
    By Paul McLellan | 8 Jan 2021
    The first part of my predictions for 2021 was two days ago, and the second part was yesterday. Process Everything in the first two posts has been driven by markets, not the basic technology. But the semiconductor industry's dynamo is the process ...
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    predictions | chiplet | 3nm | more than Moore | 5nm
  • Paul McLellan
    Breakfast Nibbles 2021: Predictions for the Year, part 2
    By Paul McLellan | 7 Jan 2021
    The first half of my predictions for 2021 was yesterday. You should probably start there if you ended up here without having read it. Automotive This seems like this is going to be the year that autonomous vehicles start to go somewhat mainstream. No...
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    2021 | predictions
  • Paul McLellan
    Breakfast Nibbles 2021: Predictions for the Year, part 1
    By Paul McLellan | 6 Jan 2021
    It's 2021 finally. Although 2020 was actually a good year for the semiconductor industry, and for Cadence in particular, for many it was not (such as my daughter, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law, who all work in some way in food and beverage). So...
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    5G | predictions | deep learning | hyperscalar datacenters | mobile | AI
  • Paul McLellan
    The Biggest Security Breach Ever
    By Paul McLellan | 5 Jan 2021
    Over the Christmas break, the biggest security breach ever came to light. It is assumed to be instigated by a foreign entity. As you know, my security go-to guy is Bruce Schneier. See for example my posts RSA: Bruce Schneier or Encryption: Why B...
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    security | solarwinds | backdoor
  • Paul McLellan
    DATE 2021: A Virtual Event in the First Week of February
    By Paul McLellan | 27 Dec 2020
    Design and Test Europe, normally known as just DATE, is coming up in the first week of February. Note that this is a month earlier than usual, the 1st to the 5th of February. The entire program is now available. Or the programme as the DATE website h...
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    DATE | design and test europe | date 2021
  • Paul McLellan
    Off Topic: "Beam Me Up, Scotty" and Other Things Nobody Said
    By Paul McLellan | 18 Dec 2020
    T his is my end-of-year off-topic holiday post, traditional before a break or a holiday. Breakfast Bytes will be on hiatus until January 4. Let's hope 2021 is better than 2020, although for EDA, semiconductor, and electronics in general, 2020 was ...
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  • Paul McLellan
    Breakfast Nibbles: How Did My 2020 Predictions Turn Out?
    By Paul McLellan | 17 Dec 2020
    Every year I make a few predictions about trends for the coming year. I will be doing 2021 sometime in January. In the meantime, let's look at how my 2020 predictions fared. Needless to say, I did not predict a pandemic, but that has had a surpri...
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    5G | automotive | predictions | cloud | more than Moore | cadence cloud | autonomous vehicles
  • Paul McLellan
    RISC-V: The Next Ten Years
    By Paul McLellan | 16 Dec 2020
    The annual RISC-V Summit (virtual, of course) was in early December. You can read my first report in my post The 2020 RISC-V Summit . The second day started with a keynote by Krste Asanovic, the lead of the team that defined the RISC-V ISA. Krste...
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  • Paul McLellan
    Instruction Decoders: RISC vs CISC
    By Paul McLellan | 15 Dec 2020
    In my post The Start of the Arm Era I said that it feels like something significant is changing. There's something Arm-y in the air. Suddenly Arm is faster than all x86 processors except the highest end of AMD's line. But why now? The three b...
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    Intel | ARM
  • Paul McLellan
    Avoiding PCB Respins with Better Computational Software
    By Paul McLellan | 14 Dec 2020
    When I first came to the US, I started at VLSI Technology supporting a project called Bagpipe, mostly by getting the big Versatec plotter that VLSI had purchased to work at full speed and to spool jobs. Bagpipe was a chip for the future Mac...
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    Celsius Thermal Solver | celsius | clarity 3d transient solver | Clarity 3D Solver | clarity
  • Paul McLellan
    Sunday Brunch Video for 13th December 2020
    By Paul McLellan | 13 Dec 2020
    https://youtu.be/ZcYIbkrHSv4 Made by my Christmas tree (camera Carey Guo) Monday: CadenceCONNECT: Mission Critical - Tom Beckley's Keynote Tuesday: How to Design Photonics If You Don't Have a PhD: iPronics and Ayar Labs Wednesday: Photonics: How...
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  • Paul McLellan
    HBI, a New Standard to Connect Your Chiplets
    By Paul McLellan | 11 Dec 2020
    It is not very well-known how involved Cadence is in establishing standards. Recently, in my post Cadence and Standards...and a New Codec for Your Phone , I wrote about this and about one particular standard, the new EVS (Enhanced Voice Services) code...
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    hbi | highbandwidth interconnect | 3DIC | more than Moore | d2d | openhbi
  • Paul McLellan
    The 2020 RISC-V Summit
    By Paul McLellan | 10 Dec 2020
    The second week of December was RISC-V week, the three-day RISC-V summit (or four if you are a member since Monday was "member day"). Tuesday opened with the keynotes being broadcast live. At least, that was the plan. The video platform pre...
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    risc-v
  • Paul McLellan
    Photonics: How Do You Attach Fiber to the Chip?
    By Paul McLellan | 9 Dec 2020
    Recently, Cadence held its fifth photonics summit, CadenceCONNECT: Photonics Contribution to High-Performance Computing. You can read my earlier posts: Photonic Integration—From Switching to Computing How to Design Photonics If You Don't Have ...
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    silicon photonics | photonics
  • How to Design Photonics If You Don't Have a PhD: iPronics and Ayar Labs
    By Paul McLellan | 8 Dec 2020
    Last week was the virtual event CadenceCONNECT: Photonics Contribution to High-Performance Computing. The opening keynote was by Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur who leads a team working on photonics at McGill University in Montréa...
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    ayar labs | silicon photonics | photonics | ipronics
  • Paul McLellan
    CadenceCONNECT: Mission Critical - Tom Beckley's Keynote
    By Paul McLellan | 7 Dec 2020
    In October, we held the CadenceCONNECT: Mission Critical event, focused on aerospace and defense (A&D). Tom Beckley gave the opening keynote. By background, many of the senior people in A&D historically knew little about electronics, nev...
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    computational software | cadenceconnect | intelligent system design
  • Paul McLellan
    Sunday Brunch Video for 6th December 2020
    By Paul McLellan | 6 Dec 2020
    https://youtu.be/r7utPfsdcKk Made in front of my living room fire Monday: What Is a Capability? CAP, CHERI, and Morello Tuesday: Cadence and Standards...and a New Codec for Your Phone Wednesday: Photonic Integration — From Switching to Computin...
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    sunday brunch
  • Innovus for Digital 3D-IC Designs
    By Paul McLellan | 4 Dec 2020
    A few weeks ago, there was a webinar about designing 3D-ICs with Innovus Implementation. Although it was not the topic of the webinar, I should point out that if your die is more custom/analog, then you can also design 3D-ICs in the Virtuoso env...
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    3DIC | OrbitIO | Innovus | interposer | 2.5D
  • Paul McLellan
    Google's DeepMind's AlphaFold Solves Protein Folding
    By Paul McLellan | 3 Dec 2020
    Solving protein folding has been a challenge for at least 50 years. You probably know that proteins are made up of amino acids, of which there are just 20. They are linked into long chains. How proteins behave depends on how they fold up. For ex...
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    alphafold | google | deepmind
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