Breakfast Bytes Blogs

I recently talked to Ashish Darbari, the CEO of Axiomise. They are based in London, where Ashish ended up having bounced around the world. But more of that later. I also discovered that he would be presenting at CadenceLIVE In Munich the followi...

CadenceLIVE Europe took place on Monday and Tuesday at the start of Thanksgiving week in Munich, Germany. It was in-person for the first time in three years. There were about 550 people there, maximum capacity. As in the past, the first day starts at...

It's time for one of my occasional travel guides, this time to Munich. For previous guides, see: The Breakfast Bytes Guide to Flying Breakfast Bytes Guide to Armenia Breakfast Bytes Guide to Japan Travel My Visits I have been to Munich literally do...

Today is a very significant anniversary for the whole of the human race. But if you are reading Breakfast Bytes, it is especially important for whatever you do. Today is the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor. There is actually no p...

Today is the last day in November, amazingly, and since I was on vacation last Friday, today is my regular monthly update covering topics that don't justify a whole post on their own or that are updates to a previously published post. Kaufman Din...

https://youtu.be/gLQbSlICCaE Made in Munich Englischergarten (camera Carey) Monday: Tensilica for Automotive Radar Tuesday: Passage: Wafer-Scale Programmable Photonic Communication Wednesday: Software 2.0 Thursday: Offtopic: Old Programming Languages...

This is the last day before a break. Tomorrow I fly to Germany for CadenceLIVE Europe, and I will be taking a week of vacation after that to visit Berlin, a city I've somehow never visited. Breakfast Bytes will next appear on November 30th. As us...

I recently came across the idea of "software 2.0". I was watching a Lex Fridman interview with Andrej Karpathy called Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333. I'll embed the podcast a...

One of the most intriguing chips presented at HOT CHIPS earlier this summer was Lightmatter's Passage. I covered it briefly in my summary post about the conference HOT CHIPS Day 1: Hot Chiplets. Steve Klinger, Lightmatter's VP of product, presented a...

At the recent Linley Fall Processor Conference, Cadence's David Bell presented Tailored Automotive Radar Processing with Tensilica ConnX DSPs. There are four primary types of sensors that can be used in automotive applications: cameras, lidar, r...

At the recent Linley Fall Processor Conference, the first day wrapped up with a presentation by Ivor Barber of AMD, where he is the Corporate VP of Packaging. He started with an introduction to chiplets which I will skip. In fact, I think he ran thro...

At the recent Linley Fall Processor Conference, R. "Suds" Sudhakar of Cisco gave the keynote titled Chiplets for Infrastructure Silicon: Hype, Hope or Hazy. First, just think about that: chiplets are so hot right now that even at a processor conferen...

If you have been reading Breakfast Bytes for a long time, then you will know that I have an interest in agricultural electronics. For example, see my post Agricultural Electronics from a couple of years ago. Part of the reason for this is that i...

Last week was the Linley Fall Processor Conference. That still seems to be the name even though the Linley Group was acquired by TechInsights last year. As always, the conference opened with Linley Gwennap's keynote. As has been the case for seve...

At the recent EDPS, the keynote on the second day was by Mallik Tatipamula. He is the CTO of Ericsson Silicon Valley and also has experience all over the telecom industry with stints at F5, Juniper Networks, Cisco, Motorola, Nortel, an...

The press meeting at the recent OIP was all about 3DFabric and 3Dblox. If you don't know what those are, then read on. I've said before that advanced packaging is the hottest area in semiconductors right now. I wrote about other aspects of OI...

One of the presentations at the recent EDPS was by Cadence's John Park. Unlike most people in Cadence, whose background is in either IC design or PCB design, John has a background in packaging. This used to be a comparatively sleepy backwater unt...

Last week it was "OIP," TSMC's Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum. My day consisted of attending the keynotes, where we were not allowed to take photos, followed by a press event (where TSMC gave us the slides!), followed by the T...

The last Friday of the month is my day for an update post, including updates to earlier posts, and stories that do not justify their own post. But Friday was a Cadence Global Recharge Day and so I pushed it out to today, the last day of the month. AW...

At the recent Jasper User Group meeting, there were a couple of presentations on using the Jasper apps for security verification, specifically Jasper SPV (for Security Path Verification): HW Security Path Validation Using Formal Methods: Intel ...

Today, it ia TSMC's OIP, the Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum. I will write about some of what was said there soon. But in the meantime, as usual, Cadence has made several announcements jointly with TSMC. N3E and N4P Node Certification T...

This year's Jasper User Group meeting took place last week. As usual, the meeting was opened by Ziyad Hanna's presentation on the state of the formal. This year, he titled his presentation Formal Verification in the Era of Domain-Specific Computing. ...

There are two big events coming up in the first couple of weeks of December. IEDM is in San Francisco from December 3-7 (the conference proper starts on the 5th, with tutorials and short courses at the weekend. See below for more details). The follow...

As you probably know, Cadence has a technology partnership with McLaren racing. I wrote about it when we announced it in my post Cadence Shifts into High Gear with the McLaren Formula 1 Team. If you live in the U.S., this weekend is one of the big ev...

Last week, Cadence held a Mercado Fiesta on the campus to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month. Latinx Heritage Month runs from September 15 through October 15, so it's now over. But I'm going to write about it today anyway. The celebration ...