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Sunday Brunch Video for 17th February 2019

By Paul McLellan | 17 Feb 2019

https://youtu.be/ZuoAfBXsbGw Made in front of the green screen (camera Sean) Monday: SPIE 2019: Light Entertainment Tuesday: DVCon Preview: The Year of PSS Wednesday: MWC Barcelona: 5G in Catalonia Thursday: Embedded in Nuremberg Friday: Presidents&#...

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MWC | mwc barcelona | DVcon | SPIE | Embedded World | embeddedworld
Presidents' Day Off-Topic: Why You Can't Say "Red Little Riding Hood"

By Paul McLellan | 15 Feb 2019

Monday is Presidents' Day, and Cadence (in the US) will be off for the day. Breakfast Bytes will be off too, and as is now traditional, the post before the break is about whatever I feel like. Today, some obscurities about English that you probab...

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spelling | off topic | language
Embedded in Nuremberg

By Paul McLellan | 14 Feb 2019

The last week of February is Embedded World (or, in fact, embeddedworld since they fashionably use all lower case). It is 26th to 28th February in the Exhibition Center. It is the same week as MWC Barcelona, DVCon (San Jose), and SPIE Advanced Lithog...

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automotive | Nuremberg | Embedded World
MWC Barcelona: 5G in Catalonia

By Paul McLellan | 13 Feb 2019

The last week of February is MWC Barcelona, formerly known as Mobile World Congress but now officially just initials. It is, obviously, in Barcelona, Spain. If you are in Germany, or Silicon Valley, other conferences are available! That week is ...

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5G | Mobile World Congress | MWC | mwc barcelona | mobile
DVCon Preview: The Year of PSS

By Paul McLellan | 12 Feb 2019

The biggest conference on verification is DVCon, which takes place in the San Jose Doubletree Hotel from 25th to the 28th February (yes, the same week as SPIE...and Embedded World...and Mobile World Congress). Verification covers all of simulation, e...

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Perspec | formal | Protium | Palladium | Emulation | DVcon | data-driven verification | xcelium | pss | JasperGold | verification
SPIE 2019: Light Entertainment

By Paul McLellan | 11 Feb 2019

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, with the purpose of “advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light”. What everyone calls "spie" (pronounced "spy"), however,...

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lithography | SPIE | EUV
Sunday Brunch Video for 10th February 2019

By Paul McLellan | 10 Feb 2019

https://youtu.be/evsNzak23b4 Made at Cadence basketball court (camera Sean) Monday: DesignCon: Cadence Teaches AMI and IBIS Tuesday: Emerging Memories Poised to Explode Wednesday: DesignCon 2019 Thursday: 60 Years of DARPA—61 Actually...

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crypto | DesignCon | persistent memories | emerging memories | darpa
Will Crypto Change the World?

By Paul McLellan | 8 Feb 2019

Do you remember when you had to pay for ringtones? In 2005, analysts were predicting that ringtones would be a $10+B market by 2010. In that pre-smartphone era, you could only install a ringtone if your service provider gave you permission. You had t...

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crypto | Internet | mobile | blockchain
60 Years of DARPA—61 Actually

By Paul McLellan | 7 Feb 2019

On 4th August 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 ("sputnik" means "satellite" in Russian). It wasn't very impressive by modern standards, a 23" metal sphere with 4 radio antennas. It seems that President Eisenho...

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Aerospace | magestic | arpa | space | eri | darpa | chips
DesignCon 2019

By Paul McLellan | 6 Feb 2019

It doesn't seem to matter what a show is ostensibly about at the moment. Every show seems to be talk about quantum computing, 5G, or artificial intelligence (AI). DesignCon, the focus of which is PCB design, was no exception, with three keynotes on.....

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uber | DesignCon | AMI | IBIS | 112g | photonics
Emerging Memories Poised to Explode

By Paul McLellan | 5 Feb 2019

A couple of weeks ago was the Persistent Memory Summit. (For more details, see my post Persistent Memory .) Normally, this might be a minority-interest event, but the potential arrival of a new level in the memory/storage hierarchy means that everyone...

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fram | ReRAM | flash | xpoint | 3D NAND | NAND flash | emerging memories | DRAM | nor flash | MRAM | PCRAM
DesignCon: Cadence Teaches AMI and IBIS

By Paul McLellan | 4 Feb 2019

At the recent DesignCon, Cadence and customer IBM presented a tutorial on Advanced IBIS-AMI Techniques for 32 GT/s and Beyond. If you are not well-versed in SerDes and signal integrity, your first need for a tutorial might be to explai...

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DesignCon | AMI | IBIS | SerDes
Sunday Brunch Video for 3rd February 2019

By Paul McLellan | 3 Feb 2019

https://youtu.be/CXTltDRjb-M Made at DesignCon 2019 (camera Sean) Monday: IEDM: Embedded Memories Tuesday: CES: 5G, All Hat and No Cattle Wednesday: Persistent Memory Thursday: What Next for Modus DFT? Friday: Programming Persistent Memory www.b...

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5G | DFT | Memory | CES | modus | mobile | persistent memory | IEDM
Programming Persistent Memory

By Paul McLellan | 1 Feb 2019

I talked earlier this week about the recent persistent memory summit (see my post Persistent Memory ). If DRAM gets faster or higher capacity, then there isn't anything that software engineers need to change, whether they're writing the operating syst...

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programming model | persistent memory
What Next for Modus DFT?

By Paul McLellan | 30 Jan 2019

I sometimes say that test is the red-headed stepchild of EDA, that doesn't get the same glory as the more high profile parts of the EDA flow such as synthesis, or place & route, or signoff. Test History Over the years, how we do test has...

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modus | Test | scantest
Persistent Memory

By Paul McLellan | 30 Jan 2019

Last week was the latest Persistent Memory Summit. In the semiconductor world, we don't usually use that word, we say non-volatile memory. In practice, this mostly means flash memory (mainly 3D NAND today) and embedded flash memory (eFlash). Both...

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persistence | Intel | non-volatile | persistent memory summit | ReRAM | optane | MRAM | persistent memory | 3dxpoint
CES: 5G, All Hat and No Cattle

By Paul McLellan | 29 Jan 2019

Increasingly, CES seems to be less about consumer electronics, and more about the big tectonic shifts in technology. Indeed, CES is no longer the Consumer Electronics Show, it is just CES. Of course, there were flexible screens (one you can even roll...

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5G | mmwave | CES | MWC
IEDM: Embedded Memories

By Paul McLellan | 28 Jan 2019

On the Sunday of IEDM are two short courses, one memory-focused, and one logic-focused. I always attend the logic one since that is more relevant to the broad semiconductor industry and to EDA in particular. But SoCs mostly (all?) have memories ...

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Memory | deep learning | eflash | flash | envm | RRAM | MRAM | PCRAM | edram
Sunday Brunch Video for 27th January 2019

By Paul McLellan | 27 Jan 2019

https://youtu.be/1gxIy7TGg3c Made at EBC (camera Sean) Tuesday: DesignCon: The Integrity Show Wednesday: Why the Nation That Invented the Computer Lost Its Lead Thursday: "The First Half of 2019 Is Likely to Be Really Bad" Friday:...

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DesignCon | bletchley park | Amazon | gsa | dan niles
Amazon Go: Just Walk Out Shopping

By Paul McLellan | 25 Jan 2019

Last year you probably heard about Amazon Go when it opened in Seattle. This is a store where you install an App on your smartphone, go to the store, use a barcode the App shows to open the turnstile to get into the store, just take what you want off...

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amazon go | mobile | Amazon | whole foods
"The First Half of 2019 Is Likely to Be Really Bad"

By Paul McLellan | 24 Jan 2019

The title of this post was the single line summary of Dan Niles' quarterly outlook for the semiconductor industry. Dan is the founder and portfolio manager of AlphaOne NexGen Technology Fund. Each quarter GSA has a conference call with him where ...

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capex | niles | Semiconductor | mobile | gsa
Why the Nation That Invented the Computer Lost Its Lead

By Paul McLellan | 23 Jan 2019

Last month I wrote about a piece that Lynn Conway wrote for IEEE Computer Magazine. See my post The Conway Disappearance Effect . I came across another article in the same issue When Winning Is Losing: Why the Nation that Invented the Computer Lost It...

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colossus | bletchley
DesignCon: The Integrity Show

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jan 2019

It's the end of January and that means DesignCon. It is January 29th to 31st in the Santa Clara Convention Center. Increasingly, the design of high-end PCBs is all about integrity: signal integrity, power integrity, EM integrity, thermal integrity. F...

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PCB | DesignCon | power integrity | silicon photonics | signal integrity | photonics | Sigrity
Sunday Brunch Video for 20th January 2019

By Paul McLellan | 20 Jan 2019

https://youtu.be/Bs5A09med6Q Made at the Cadence campus in the rain (camera Sean) Monday: Tensilica at CES Tuesday: AMD Keynote at CES Wednesday: AlphaZero: Four Hours to World Class from a Standing Start Thursday: IEDM: EUV, the Road to HV...

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alphazero | CES | AMD | Tensilica | EUV | IEDM
MLK Off-topic: The Lady with the Polar Chart

By Paul McLellan | 18 Jan 2019

It's Martin Luther King day on Monday, and Cadence is off. I think that this is the first time I have ever got it as a holiday, rather than moving it to somewhere like July 3rd. Breakfast Bytes will not appear on Monday. So, as is traditional, th...

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offtopic | florence nightingale | statistics

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