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Offtopic: Immersive Vincent van Gogh

By Paul McLellan | 29 Jul 2021

Cadence has a global holiday tomorrow and Breakfast Bytes will not appear. Back on Monday. Did you see the (excellent) Netflix show Emily in Paris? In one episode, the characters go to see a show which is called Immersive van Gogh. In Paris, it opene...

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July Update

By Paul McLellan | 28 Jul 2021

This is the July edition of the now monthly update post, with small updates to existing posts and themes that don't justify a whole Breakfast Bytes post on their own. Cadence is off for a global recharge day on Friday, so Breakfast Bytes will not...

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ransomware | featured post | 6ghz | update | inmos | spectrum | GlobalFoundries | supply chain attack | newport wafer fab
Designed with Cadence Video Series

By Paul McLellan | 27 Jul 2021

Designed with Cadence is a video series made with Cadence customers about how they used Cadence technology to design real products. Each video is about two to three minutes long. There are currently more than 20 of them, with new ones being added eve...

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featured post | video | designed with cadence | dwc
HOT CHIPS 2021 Preview

By Paul McLellan | 26 Jul 2021

As usual in August, it is HOT CHIPS. I always find this one of the most interesting conferences of the year. It gives a lot of insight into the specific products being presented, but also a feel for what technologies are being used for the most advan...

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Intel | AMD | IBM | Samsung | hot chips | ARM
Sunday Brunch Video for 25th July 2021

By Paul McLellan | 25 Jul 2021

https://youtu.be/cwT7KL4iShY Made on "a tropical beach" Monday: Aerospace and Defense Systems Day...and DAU Tuesday: 75 Years of the Microprocessor Wednesday: CadenceLIVE Cloud Panel Thursday: Cerebrus: The Future of Intelligent Chip D...

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Machine Learning in EDA

By Paul McLellan | 23 Jul 2021

Yesterday, in my post Cerebrus: The Future of Intelligent Chip Design , I talked about our latest product to use machine learning (ML) techniques to great effect. Although they are all slightly different, machine learning is also known as artificial i...

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featured post | xcelium ml | cerebrus | JasperGold | allegro x
Cerebrus: The Future of Intelligent Chip Design

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jul 2021

This morning, Cadence announced Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer, a machine learning (ML)-based tool that automates and scales digital chip design. If you think about what a designer does with traditional EDA tools, a lot of it is running some tool...

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Genus | featured post | cerebrus | cloud | cadence cloud | Innovus | digital full flow | physical design | Synthesis | timing signoff
CadenceLIVE Cloud Panel

By Paul McLellan | 21 Jul 2021

At the recent CadenceLIVE Americas, most of the sessions were pre-recorded with a live Q&A at the end. One exception to this was Big 3D FEM Simulations: Cloud or On-Prem? FEM stands for "finite element method" and is part of the te...

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featured post | on-prem | cloud | cadencelive americas | cadence cloud | cadencelive
75 Years of the Microprocessor

By Paul McLellan | 20 Jul 2021

At the recent ISCA, there was a panel session with some of the major contributors to microprocessor development during the last 50 years. They were also asked to predict how they thought the microprocessor would develop during the next 25 years, goin...

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Aerospace and Defense Systems Day...and DAU

By Paul McLellan | 19 Jul 2021

Coming up on July 28 is CadenceCONNECT Aerospace and Defense Systems Day. Cadence experts will present on the most important issues facing teams in aerospace and defense (A&D). There is a common thread running through the presentations, namely ho...

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A&D | featured post | Aerospace | eda101 | cadenceconnect | defense | dau
Sunday Brunch Video for 18th July 2021

By Paul McLellan | 18 Jul 2021

https://youtu.be/nZ4lisR19nQ Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Tesla Goes All-In on Vision...and Supercomputers Tuesday: 50 Years of the Microprocessor, Part 1 Wednesday: 50 Years of the Microprocessor, Part 2 Thursday: AWR: Int...

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What Comes after 2nm GAA?

By Paul McLellan | 16 Jul 2021

There are three companies that currently pursue the smallest geometries, what I've heard called "the race to the end of Moore's Law". One is based in Korea, one in Taiwan, and one in the US. So the obvious place to go to find out wh...

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forksheet | 3nm | imec | airgap | 2nm
AWR: Intelligent RF Design

By Paul McLellan | 15 Jul 2021

There is a new release of the AWR Design Environment with cross-platform workflows to support RF to mmWave based on both the Virtuoso (chip) and Allegro (PCB/package) platforms, and with integration to the system-level analysis solution Clarity ...

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5G | RF | featured post | awr | RF design | awr v16 | radios
50 Years of the Microprocessor, Part 2

By Paul McLellan | 14 Jul 2021

At the recent International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) there was a special session to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the microprocessor, with eight experts who had influence during those decades. The introductory statements from the...

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50 Years of the Microprocessor, Part 1

By Paul McLellan | 13 Jul 2021

At the recent International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) there was a special session to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the microprocessor, with eight experts who had influence during those decades. They were: Federico Faggin, design...

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isca | moore's law | microprocessor
Tesla Goes All-In on Vision...and Supercomputers

By Paul McLellan | 12 Jul 2021

If you have even a passing interest in autonomous vehicles aka self-driving cars, then you probably know about the lidar controversy. I wrote about Tesla's Self-Driving Computer (SDC) when they announced it at their analyst's day a coup...

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tesla | vision | autonomous vehicles
Sunday Brunch Video for 11th July 2021

By Paul McLellan | 11 Jul 2021

https://youtu.be/NI60y8M8i9I Made on the beach at Santa Barbara (camera Carey Guo) Monday: No post Tuesday: No post Wednesday: CadenceLIVE Japan Preview. With Coffee and Ice-Cream Thursday: How Many New Fabs Are Under Construction...

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CadenceLIVE Americas: Now Available On-Demand

By Paul McLellan | 9 Jul 2021

CadenceLIVE Americas was held earlier this month. It is now available on-demand. So if you attended the event, you can watch sessions that you missed at the time. But, perhaps more importantly, even if you didn't attend you can still register and...

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How Many New Fabs Are Under Construction? Ask Christian Dieseldorff

By Paul McLellan | 8 Jul 2021

Everyone must have heard that there is a semiconductor shortage by now. The story that we've all heard is two-fold. First, automotive seems to be a special case. Their sales cratered at the start of lockdown, so they canceled all their semiconduc...

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world fab forecast | semi | fabs
CadenceLIVE Japan Preview. With Coffee and Ice-Cream

By Paul McLellan | 7 Jul 2021

Once again this year, CadenceLIVE Japan is coming up soon and it will be completely virtual. As I do each year, let me give you some good reasons to attend. We'd love to give you food and drink but you know why that is not going to happen. W...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 4th July 2021

By Paul McLellan | 4 Jul 2021

https://youtu.be/Zb8vh-JjTQk Made in Long Ridge Open Space Preserve (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Cadence Report: "Hyperscale Computing Will Positively Impact Me within Five Years" Tuesday: Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family Wednesda...

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Offtopic: John Muir Trail...and Weight

By Paul McLellan | 1 Jul 2021

It is the last day before the July 4 break—Cadence is off on July 2 and 5, and I'm taking a day off on 6th too—so as is traditional before a break, I go off-topic. Before Memorial Day, I wrote about Kilimanjaro in my post "Pole P...

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CadenceLIVE Google Keynote: Please Sir, I Want Some Moore

By Paul McLellan | 30 Jun 2021

The invited keynote for the first day of the recent CadenceLIVE Americas was by Partha Ranganathan, who is currently a VP and Engineering Fellow at Google where he is the area technical lead for hardware and data centers, designing systems at sc...

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google | cadencelive americas | cadencelive
Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family

By Paul McLellan | 29 Jun 2021

Recently, Cadence announced the availability of the Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP family. I expect you thought that Tensilica already had floating-point DSPs, and it is true that the existing Tensilica processors have an optional floating-point un...

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floating-point | Tensilica | floatingpoint
Cadence Report: "Hyperscale Computing Will Positively Impact Me within Five Years"

By Paul McLellan | 28 Jun 2021

Do you know what hyperconnectivity is? It is already affecting you, whether you know it or not. Hyperscalers are the companies like AWS, Google, and Microsoft that build and run those enormous (aka hyperscale) data centers. If you are a designer and ...

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