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RSA: The Director of the FBI

By Paul McLellan | 22 Mar 2019

Christopher Wray, the current (and the 8th) Director of the FBI, wrapped up the opening keynote session, in discussion with Susan Hennessey of the Brookings Institution. Change Your Facebook Password Today But before I get to that, here's a publi...

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#learntocode

By Paul McLellan | 21 Mar 2019

When a few hundred journalists were laid off recently, there was a lot of activity on Twitter (and probably elsewhere) suggesting that journalists should learn to code. One thing that I've noticed is that journalists are inordinately concerned wi...

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computer science | learntocode
RSA Cryptographers' Panel

By Paul McLellan | 20 Mar 2019

One big highlight of the RSA conference is always The Cryptographers' Panel. This year the panel was: Ronald Rivest, the R of RSA. Whitfield Diffie, legendary cryptographer. Paul Kocher, who discovered both differential power analysis, and one o...

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security | rsa | cryptography
RSA: From Helen Mirren to Tina Fey

By Paul McLellan | 19 Mar 2019

The RSA Security Conference that took place in the first week of March was bracketed by two women who don't have much connection to security. The main keynote session on Tuesday morning started with the lights going down, and then the announcer&#...

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security | rsa | cryptography
The World Wide Web Was Born 30 Years Ago This Month

By Paul McLellan | 18 Mar 2019

In March 1989 at CERN, a guy called Tim-Berners Lee had an idea about how to get control over the sprawling documentation mess at the organization. CERN is the European Particle Physics Laboratory. The name comes from French, Conseil Europ&eacut...

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Internet | tim-berners lee | CERN
Sunday Brunch Video for 17th March 2019

By Paul McLellan | 17 Mar 2019

https://youtu.be/b5eJJcHiOoY Made at Cadence building 9 lobby (camera Sean) Monday: PSA: Americans Will Need Visas for Europe Tuesday: MWC: Voice Enhancement, GPS, Ultrasound, and More Wednesday: Domain-Specific Computing 1: The Dark Ages o...

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Domain-Specific Computing 3: Specialized Processors

By Paul McLellan | 15 Mar 2019

The last two days' posts have looked at the development of general-purpose processors, and why we are now in the age of special-purpose processors, including one particular type, the GPU. Today, I take a look at some of the other aspect...

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domain specific computing | special purpose architectures | GPUs | Dark Silicon | Tensilica | ARM
Domain-Specific Computing 2: The End of the Dark Ages

By Paul McLellan | 14 Mar 2019

Yesterday looked at how general-purpose computer architecture changed during the period when Moore's Law and Dennard scaling were both working well, and when computer architects were coming up with more and more innovative architectures to get ex...

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computer architecture | domain specific computing
Domain-Specific Computing 1: The Dark Ages of Computer Architecture

By Paul McLellan | 13 Mar 2019

This is the era of domain-specific computing. Or, to use the words of Dave Patterson and John Hennessey from their Turing Award acceptance presentation, the "New Golden Age of Computer Architecture." Of course, to have a New Golde...

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computer architecture | domain specific computing | moore's law
Breakfast Buffet for February 2019

By Paul McLellan | 12 Mar 2019

https://youtu.be/pNgkoWQE9A4 The three highlighted posts for February were: Who Is Green Hills? Tensilica ConnX B20 for 5G, and Automotive Radar/Lidar Signal Integrity for 112G Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.

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Green Hills | Tensilica | 112g | buffet
MWC: Voice Enhancement, GPS, Ultrasound, and More

By Paul McLellan | 12 Mar 2019

At the recent MWC Barcelona, the conference fka Mobile World Congress, Cadence had a booth, as usual. The focus of what we showed was using Tensilica for various applications relevant to customers who attend MWC. Nobody wanders into our booth looking...

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alango | nestwave | MWC | Tensilica | sonarax
PSA: Americans Will Need Visas for Europe

By Paul McLellan | 11 Mar 2019

From 2021, Americans will need a visa for Europe. You read it here first! That means you'll need a visa to visit NXP, Arm, Bosch, Nokia, BMW, Infineon, ST Microelectronics, and many more companies in our industry. When I lived in France, there was so...

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visa | Europe | schengen
Sunday Brunch Video for 10th March 2019

By Paul McLellan | 10 Mar 2019

https://youtu.be/7fSgv_dVCA4 Made at my home with a G&T (camera Carey Guo) Monday: MWC Barcelona Tuesday: MWC Part Dos Wednesday: Huawei: He Who Must Not Be Mentioned at MWC Thursday: CDNLive: Travels with a Bear Friday: Gin and To...

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5G | CDNLive | MWC | mwc barcelona | Huawei
Gin and Tonic: The Drink of Barcelona

By Paul McLellan | 8 Mar 2019

One thing that is a big deal in Barcelona is gin and tonic, or G&T as it is usually called in Britain. But unlike in Britain (and the US, for that matter), it is always served in a big goblet like that to the left. It is not just a few bars, and ...

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CDNLive: Travels with a Bear

By Paul McLellan | 7 Mar 2019

It's nearly time for the season of CDNLive events, which starts as always in Silicon Valley, works its way East to Europe, before going across the Pacific Ocean to Asia and working its way West with Japan, Taiwan, China, India, and Israel. F...

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Huawei: He Who Must Not Be Named at MWC

By Paul McLellan | 6 Mar 2019

At MWC Barcelona last week, Huawei was like Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series—he who must not be named. During the opening keynotes, people referred to things like "potential supply-chain disruption" or "security and integrity." This&nb...

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MWC | mwc barcelona | Huawei
MWC Part Dos

By Paul McLellan | 5 Mar 2019

Yesterday I wrote my first post about MWC19 Barcelona . Today is the continuation of that. Part 2, or dos in Catalan, the local language in Barcelona. It's dos in Spanish too, but numbers in Catalan are mostly different: un, dos, tres, quatre, cin...

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5G | MWC | daimler | BMW | ARM
MWC Barcelona

By Paul McLellan | 4 Mar 2019

Last week it was MWC Barcelona. As seems to be the fashion, like with CES, MWC just stands for itself, and is no longer Mobile World Congress. I predicted in my preview post MWC Barcelona: 5G in Catalonia that this year it would be all about 5G....

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5G | gsma | MWC | mobile | vodaphone
Sunday Brunch Video for 4th March 2019

By Paul McLellan | 3 Mar 2019

https://youtu.be/wjX4hOvb9-I Made at MWC19 Barcelona (camera JD Estella) Monday: OFC: The Optical Fiber Communication Conference Tuesday: Tensilica ConnX B20 for 5G, and Automotive Radar/Lidar Wednesday: DesignCon: 5G for V2X Communication ...

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automotive | connx b20 | lidar | mwc19 | radar | MWC | 112g | v2x | SerDes | mobile | bitcoin | Sigrity | ARM | Breakfast Bytes | blockchain
Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

By Paul McLellan | 1 Mar 2019

Nobody knows. Really. Here's what is known. He (or maybe it's she or they) is the author of the 2008 paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System that got posted to the cypherpunk mailing list. This paper introduced Bitcoin and t...

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satoshi nakamoto | cyptography | bitcoin | blockchain
Signal Integrity for 112G

By Paul McLellan | 28 Feb 2019

At DesignCon at the end of January, a team from Cadence presented to a standing-room-only crown on Modeling and Simulating 112Gbps SerDes. The team was Margaret Johnston, Manuel Juschas, Bhaskar Acharya, Kumar Keshavan, and Ken Willis. The 112Gbps Se...

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AMI | pam4 | 112Gbps | 112g | SerDes | Sigrity | SystemSI
DesignCon: 5G for V2X Communication

By Paul McLellan | 27 Feb 2019

One of the keynotes at the recent DesignCon was by Robert Heath of UT Austin titled 5G for Vehicle-to-X Communications. He started off with an overview of 5G, pointing out that there is a move from mobile handsets to other markets: e-Health, energy, ...

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5G | automotive | DesignCon
Tensilica ConnX B20 for 5G, and Automotive Radar/Lidar

By Paul McLellan | 26 Feb 2019

I'm sure you've noticed that there is a lot of talk about 5G in the air. Well, "in the air" is the one place it isn't, since it is a new standard that is being brought to market over the next few years. There are a lot...

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5G | connx b20 | lidar | radar | Tensilica
OFC: The Optical Fiber Communication Conference

By Paul McLellan | 25 Feb 2019

OFC is the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (yes, some initials got lost in the acronym...it used to be just the Optical Fiber Conference). It is in San Diego from 3rd to 7th March, for the conference, and from 5th to 7...

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optical fiber | photonics
Sunday Brunch Video for 24th February 2019

By Paul McLellan | 24 Feb 2019

https://youtu.be/uUWiysEM4jM Made on the top of building 10 (camera Sean) Monday: dark Tuesday: All the Ps: the Photonics PDK Panel Wednesday: Ronto and Quecto Are Not Cheeses Thursday: Who Is Green Hills? Friday: Badges—Not Just for Scout...

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