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Off-Topic: Syllepsis and Zeugma

By Paul McLellan | 24 May 2019

It's Memorial Day in the US on Monday, and Cadence is off. So today is the day before a holiday. By tradition, I write about...whatever I feel like. So let's go with figures of speech. Even before I became a professional writer, I had a fasci...

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GOMAC: Software Is Never Done

By Paul McLellan | 23 May 2019

When I was at GOMAC in Albuquerque at the end of March, I ran into a couple of Cadence people and a couple of Green Hills people. Everyone left except one of the Green Hills guys, since he was staying in a different hotel. He turned out to be John Wa...

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automotive | dod | software | software development
I/O Is Faster than the CPU—What Now?

By Paul McLellan | 22 May 2019

At his keynote at CDNLive Silicon Valley, Andy Bechtolsheim made a throwaway remark that 1600G Ethernet would be a problem since "the packet rate is just 333 picoseconds so that needs wide Ethernet ports" (see my post Andy Bechtolsheim...

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parakernel | networking | nic
Samsung's 3nm GAA Process

By Paul McLellan | 21 May 2019

At the recent Samsung Foundry Forum, HK Kang, the EVP of semiconductor R&D, took to the stage. He's in charge of advanced logic, DRAM, 3D NAND, mask. But that day he was just going to talk about Samsung's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) technol...

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Alberto and the Origins of the EDA Industry

By Paul McLellan | 20 May 2019

At the 2019 International Symposium of Physical Design, the conference honored Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli with a lifetime achievement award. Alberto was one of the cofounders of SDA Systems, the forerunner of Cadence, so in some ways he's a foun...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 19th May 2019

By Paul McLellan | 19 May 2019

https://youtu.be/cTEPUNpqcRg Made at Samsung HQ (camera Sean) Monday: Bob Smith on ESD Alliance, ES Design West...with Wine Tuesday: After Meltdown and Spectre Wednesday: Vision Q7 DSP: Real-Time Vision and AI at the Edge Thursday: Samsung ...

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Top 10 Reasons to Go to DAC

By Paul McLellan | 17 May 2019

The Design Automation Conference is coming up soon. It's in Las Vegas from June 2 to 6 in the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). Rob Aitken I was putting together a post on what I thought were good reasons to attend, but I decided to c...

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Samsung Process Roadmaps

By Paul McLellan | 16 May 2019

Recently, Samsung held the third Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) at the Marriott in Santa Clara. They had so many attendees that they pretty much overflowed the biggest ballroom in the hotel and had to set up a temporary structure in the parking lot for ...

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Samsung | samsung foundry | samsung foundry forum | sff
Vision Q7 DSP: Real-Time Vision and AI at the Edge

By Paul McLellan | 15 May 2019

At CDNLive EMEA, we announced the latest member of the Tensilica family at the press conference, although it was embargoed until this morning. This is the Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP. The earliest Vision cores were purely focused on image processing in t...

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After Meltdown and Spectre

By Paul McLellan | 14 May 2019

At the recent Linley Spring Microprocessor Conference, the second day's keynote was by Jon Masters of Red Hat. He wears two hats (both of them red) since he is responsible both for their Arm product line and also their response to the Spectre and...

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Bob Smith on ESD Alliance, ES Design West...with Wine

By Paul McLellan | 13 May 2019

I talked to Bob Smith recently about what's coming up in the world of the ESD Alliance now that it is part of SEMI. One thing that Bob told me is that finally there are baby steps being taken outside of the US (Silicon Valley even) with a two-hou...

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semicon | semi | es design west | esd alliance
Sunday Brunch Video for 12th May 2019

By Paul McLellan | 12 May 2019

https://youtu.be/E61e34IbaRE Made at CDNLuve EMEA (camera Andrea Huse) Monday: Statistical Power...or Why You Shouldn't Be Allowed to Turn Right on Red Tuesday: JasperGold: the Next Generation Wednesday: How Do Out-of-Order Processors W...

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150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad

By Paul McLellan | 10 May 2019

150 years ago, technology meant railroads, not semiconductors. I mean, precisely 150 years ago—today is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad from Oakland to Omaha, completed with a golden spike. I had a frien...

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Intel at Linley

By Paul McLellan | 9 May 2019

At the recent Linley Spring Microprocessor Conference, there were two presentations by Intel about deep learning. The first was by Ian Steiner, the lead architect for Cascade Lake. The second was by Carey Kloss, the VP of Hardware for the AI products...

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How Do Out-of-Order Processors Work Anyway?

By Paul McLellan | 8 May 2019

I've been meaning to write a post on how out-of-order processors work, but one challenge is to make the diagrams that are necessary to make it clear. Well, Jon Masters of Red Hat gave the keynote on the second day of the Linley Spring Microproces...

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processor | Linley | red hat | instruction set architecture
JasperGold: the Next Generation

By Paul McLellan | 7 May 2019

Formal verification has gone through a number of eras. In the early 1990s, it was an area mostly of academic interest, only able to handle toy problems. Then, in 1994, was the infamous FDIV bug. As Intel's Bob Bentley said at the 2012 Jasper User...

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formal | machine learning | JasperGold | Formal verification | verification
Statistical Power...or Why You Shouldn't Be Allowed to Turn Right on Red

By Paul McLellan | 6 May 2019

I wrote last Friday in my post TSMC: Zero Excursion, Zero Defect about the statistical processes that are essential in semiconductor manufacturing to get high yield, and to catch any issues that arise early enough to fix them. I suspect that hig...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 5th May 2019

By Paul McLellan | 5 May 2019

https://youtu.be/ICpG3ouDIyQ Made at Nathan's Tesla (camera Sean) Monday: Andy Bechtolsheim: 85 Slides in 25 Minutes, Even the Keynote Went at 400Gbps Tuesday: Tesla Drives into Chip Design Wednesday: Linley Gwennap's Deep Dive into Deep Lear...

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TSMC: Zero Excursion, Zero Defect

By Paul McLellan | 3 May 2019

At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium, JK Wang, the SVP of fab operations, talked about Manufacturing Excellence. There were two parts to this: Capacity ramping and new fab status The pursuit of quality excellence Capacity Ramping and New Fab Sta...

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TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium
TSMC: Specialty Technologies

By Paul McLellan | 2 May 2019

What is a "specialty technology"? Kevin Zhang, the VP of business development, told us at the recent TSMC Technology Symposium: If Yuh-Jier Mii doesn't talk about it, then it's a specialty technology Yuh-Jier Mii is the head of technology deve...

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TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium
Linley Gwennap's Deep Dive into Deep Learning

By Paul McLellan | 1 May 2019

At the recent Linley Spring Microprocessor Conference, Linley Gwennap kicked off with the opening keynote on what is clearly the biggest thing to hit processors in a long time: deep learning. Linley started with an overview of deep learning and the l...

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deep learning | Linley
Tesla Drives into Chip Design

By Paul McLellan | 30 Apr 2019

I've said for a couple of years that high-end automotive companies are going to have to do what the high-end mobile companies did, and build their own application processors. It will be the only way for them to get differentiation and built a pro...

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automotive | tesla
Andy Bechtolsheim: 85 Slides in 25 Minutes, Even the Keynote Went at 400Gbps

By Paul McLellan | 29 Apr 2019

Andy Bechtolsheim likes to go fast. He famously had to rush off to a meeting but wrote Sergey and Larry $100K check to fund Google anyway, with no paperwork. At the keynote at CDNLive, he presented The Road to 400G Networking. He had 85 slides and 25...

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CDNLive | CDNLive Silicon Valley
TSMC Technology Roadmap

By Paul McLellan | 26 Apr 2019

Earlier this week it was the TSMC Technology Symposium. Here's my first post, summarizing TSMC's technology roadmap. As I do every year, I start with the caveat that this is all done from my notes, recording and photography is banned, and the...

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TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium
8 Things to Know about CDNLive EMEA

By Paul McLellan | 25 Apr 2019

It's CDNLive EMEA! Well, not today, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 6 to 8 at the Infinity Hotel in Unterschleißheim (in the suburbs of Munich near the airport). I will be there and will write about some of the presentations. ...

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