Breakfast Bytes Blogs

On September 17, there was a meeting of the CHIPS Alliance. It was online, of course. In three hours, there were ten presentations. CHIPS is actually an acronym, Common Hardware for Interfaces, Processors, and Systems. The presentations, and The CHIP...

https://youtu.be/EUDdGqdmTUU Made in "the Alps" Monday: Complete RF Solution: Think Outside the Chip Tuesday: The First Decade of RISC-V: A Worldwide Phenomenon Wednesday: The European Processor Initiative Thursday: Should the Government Ad...

Normally, in May, I'd have been off to Unterschleißheim, a suburb of Munich where historically we've held what used to be called CDNLive EMEA. We renamed this CadenceLIVE Europe and pushed it out from its original May dates to Octo...

There is something called Betteridge's Law of Headlines that if a headline or title asks a question, then the answer is "no". I think the title of today's blog post, however, is a definitive "yes". I'm thinking about d...

At the recent RISC-V Global Forum, one of the presenters was Jean-Marc Denis, chairman of the European Processor Initiative (EPI), or as he described it, the European approach to the exascale age and the road towards sovereignty. The project is drive...

A couple of weeks ago was the RISC-V Global Forum. Earlier in the week, I wrote about RISC-V State of the Universe , mostly covering Krste's keynote that was at 8:00am—that is to say, in the middle of the conference! Today, I will cover Dave...

At the recent CadenceLIVE Americas, Cadence's Yuval Shay presented Think Outside the Chip: A Comprehensive RF Flow for IC, Package, and Module Design. Before cellphones and Wi-Fi, radios were not that common, and RF design was even more of a bla...

I wrote a post recently, HOT CHIPS: Scaling out Deep Learning Training , which I considered to be an introduction to deep learning training (in the first half) and scaling out (in the second). But even my boss told me it was "meaty" so ...

Do you know what the Stevie Awards are? Officially, they are the International Business Awards, but just like the Academy Awards of Merit are colloquially known as Oscars, these awards are known as Stevies. They are: a set of eight business awards ...

A couple of weeks ago was the RISC-V Global Forum. This was truly global, in that it started at midnight California time and ran for 18 hours until 8:00pm the following evening, with people presenting from their living rooms all over the world. Prese...

Texas Instruments (TI) is the biggest analog semiconductor company in the world. As it happens, I wrote about TI just two weeks ago in my self-explanatorily-titled post Cadence Wins Texas Instruments' Supplier Excellence Award . I gave...

If you have paid even passing attention to what has been going on in automotive functional safety, then you'll have heard of ISO 26262. You may even know that chapter 11 is the best! That's the one about semiconductors and semicondu...

https://youtu.be/aqlmfd3g5G0 Made in "Jaipur, India" Monday: Labor Day Tuesday: Andrew Kahng and Matthew Morrison on Industry and Academia Wednesday: OIP Ecosystem Forum 2020 Thursday: HOT CHIPS: The Space Race for the Biggest ML Machine Friday: Use ...

At the recent CadenceLIVE Americas, Nick Loebner of Imagination Technologies presented Delivering Best PPA on PowerVR GPUs Using Genus/Innovus Digital Implementation System. You probably already know that Imagination Technologies license GPU IP....

At the recent HOT CHIPS, the Sunday morning tutorial was on scale out of deep learning training. I covered the introduction in my post HOT CHIPS: Scaling out Deep Learning Training . The second half of the morning was devoted to some of the biggest sc...

Last Tuesday was the virtual TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum. Apart from being virtual, the format was similar to the usual. Cliff Hou, Senior Vice President of Technology Development, opened the day with a summary of where everything is in the ecosyst...

I attended two presentations on the academic track at the recent CadenceLIVE Americas. The first was Andrew Kahng's presentation A 'Life Cycle' of Teaching and Research on EDA and IC Implementation Methodology. The second was Matthew...

https://youtu.be/bj1-b3YpuXg Made in "Costa Rica" Monday: Cadence Wins Texas Instruments' Supplier Excellence Award Tuesday: InspectAR: Augmented Reality in Newfoundland Wednesday: CadenceLIVE India 2020 Preview Thursday:&nbsp...

Labor Day is coming up on Monday. Friday is also a Cadence holiday and Breakfast Bytes will not appear. So today is the last post before a holiday, and as always I write about something non-electronic. Today, coffee. Microroasting sounds like somethi...

In a normal year, I would already have my plane ticket to fly to Bangalore for CadenceLIVE India. It's an insane trip, in some ways, with about 40 hours of travel to attend about 16 hours of the actual event spread over two days. Of course, ...

I covered Anirudh's CadenceLIVE keynote in my post Anirudh's Keynote: A New Product...and an Acquisition . The acquisition mentioned was InspectAR. I contacted Mihir Shah, the CEO, to find out more. The first surprise is that the company is based in N...

I attended the online ceremony recently in which Texas Instruments (TI) formally awarded Cadence their Supplier Excellence Award. It is the first time ever that this award has gone to an EDA/IP company. The award itself is a heavy piece of glass...

https://youtu.be/IwA132i-R80 Made in "an aquarium" Monday: Under the Hood of Xcelium ML Tuesday: Cadence Certified on TSMC N3, Ultralink on N6, and 3DFabric Wednesday: HOT CHIPS Server and Laptop Processors: Intel, AMD, IBM, Marvell Thursday: TS...

Last Monday was the TSMC Technology Summit 2020. Virtual, of course. I covered that in my post TSMC Technology Symposium: All the Processes, All the Fabs . Today it is the turn of specialty processes and advanced package, for which TSMC now uses ...

Last Monday it was the TSMC Technology Symposium, held virtually of course. Today, I'm going to cover a little bit on the opening, but then focus on advanced digital processes (presented by YJ Mill) and manufacturing excellence (presented by YP C...