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Sunday Brunch Video for 13th October 2019

By Paul McLellan | 13 Oct 2019

https://youtu.be/8BM28qwHyUk Made at Arm TechCon (camera Randy Smith) Monday: What Is Quantum Supremacy? Tuesday: It's Ada Lovelace Day Today Wednesday: The First Woman to Receive the Kaufman Award Thursday: The Economist on RISC-V and ...

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Sensor Fusion and ADAS in TSMC Automotive Processes

By Paul McLellan | 11 Oct 2019

At the recent TSMC OIP Symposium, Cadence's Tom Wong presented Sensor Fusion and ADAS SoC Designs in TSMC 16FFC and N7. These two processes are the "compact" 16nm process and the mainline 7nm process, two processes that TSMC selected for adding addit...

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OIP | automotive | sensor fusion | TSMC | lidar | radar | Tensilica | vision | camera | ADAS
The Economist on RISC-V and Indian Semiconductors

By Paul McLellan | 10 Oct 2019

Our industry is difficult to understand. Most of us resort to imperfect analogies to explain it when we have to. Some of this is because we have a complex supply chain for creation. It is easy to get confused between an instruction set architecture (...

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risc-v | The Economist | CDNLive India | India
The First Woman to Receive the Kaufman Award

By Paul McLellan | 9 Oct 2019

Mary Jane Irwin just got back from a cruise around the Greek islands with her husband of 53 years to celebrate being the first woman to receive the Kaufman award. Yesterday's post was It's Ada Lovelace Day Today , a celebration not just of Ada...

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It's Ada Lovelace Day Today

By Paul McLellan | 8 Oct 2019

The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day (ALD). This is not just a day to celebrate Ada herself, generally given the honor of being considered the first computer programmer, but it is an international day celebrating the achievements of...

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analytical engine | ada | ada lovelace | Babbage
What Is Quantum Supremacy?

By Paul McLellan | 7 Oct 2019

There are rumors that Google has achieved quantum supremacy. According to Scott Aaronson, my go-to person for all things quantum mechanics, we weren't meant to know about this yet. As Scott says on his blog : As the world now knows, Google is ind...

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quantum computing | IBM | quantum supremacy | google
Sunday Brunch Video for 6th October 2019

By Paul McLellan | 6 Oct 2019

https://youtu.be/zEmNTM72GYE Made at Sawyer Camp Trail (camera Carey Guo) Monday: TSMC OIP: Process Status Tuesday: The 2019 Kaufman Award Goes to Mary Jane Irwin Wednesday: HOT CHIPS: The AWS Nitro Project Thursday: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technology C...

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EDA in the Cloud: Astera Labs, AWS, Arm, and Cadence Report

By Paul McLellan | 4 Oct 2019

Earlier this week I wrote a post covering the AWS presentation from HOT CHIPS about the Nitro project. Although the Nitro chips all contain Arm processors, that doesn't make them "Arm servers" in the sense that the processor running the application c...

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cloud | aws | cadence cloud | Liberate | Amazon
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technology Conference 2019

By Paul McLellan | 3 Oct 2019

This week was the GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technology Conference, GTC 2019, in Santa Clara. It was the 10th anniversary of GF, which was created on March 4, 2009. it is also almost exactly one year since what GF calls "the pivot", where they decided to abando...

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GTC | GlobalFoundries | FD-SOI
HOT CHIPS: The AWS Nitro Project

By Paul McLellan | 2 Oct 2019

In 2016, Amazon acquired the Israeli company Annapurna Labs. Since they were in stealth mode, doing something to do with Arm processors, nobody really knew why. At the time, press reports called them "secretive chip maker Annapurna". Last year, at CD...

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ec2 | nitro | cloud | annapurna | aws | Amazon
The 2019 Kaufman Award Goes to Mary Jane Irwin

By Paul McLellan | 1 Oct 2019

This year's Kaufman Award recipient is Dr. Mary Jane (Janie) Irwin of Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Irwin is the first woman to receive the Kaufman award, EDA's highest honor. As this morning's press release says: Dr. Irwin is ...

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TSMC OIP: Process Status

By Paul McLellan | 30 Sep 2019

Last week was TSMC's Open Innovation Platform Innovation Forum (aka OIP). Dave Keller welcomed everyone and then introduced Cliff Hou who gave the update on everything technical. Here's what he said. Or rather, here's what I think he said...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 29th September 2019

By Paul McLellan | 29 Sep 2019

https://youtu.be/zU_y5sQBlGA Made at TSMC OIP Symposium (camera Tom Hackett) Monday: CDNLive Israel 2019: Celsius, the Dead Sea, Ramallah Tuesday: Running the Software for an Embedded System Wednesday: Embedded Development: Specialized Proc...

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Building Neural Networks with High-Level Synthesis

By Paul McLellan | 27 Sep 2019

Earlier this week, Dave Apte presented a webinar on AI Accelerator Design with Stratus High-Level Synthesis. It was timed for the East Coast and for Europe, so I had to get up at 6:00am to attend, but since I'm still somewhat jet-lagged from gett...

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deep learning | TensorFlow | Stratus | high level synthesis | HLS
TSMC OIP: 6nm and 5nm

By Paul McLellan | 26 Sep 2019

Today it is TSMC's Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum, or OIP for short. This is one of two events each year at which TSMC presents much of the status of their technology, their fab construction, and production schedules. The other is the T...

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OIP | n5 | n5p | TSMC | photonics | n7 | n6
Embedded Development: Specialized Processing

By Paul McLellan | 25 Sep 2019

Yesterday, in Running the Program for an Embedded System , I wrote about using emulation and FPGA prototyping to test and debug the software load for an SoC. But I didn't discuss where the software came from, just that somehow there was some obje...

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domain specific computing | caffe | TensorFlow | Green Hills | C++ | Matlab
Running the Software for an Embedded System

By Paul McLellan | 24 Sep 2019

A big challenge with developing a modern SoC is developing the software. Not so much the development itself, which is not very different from any other software development, but running and debugging the software. Waiting for the silicon to...

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virtual platform | Palladium | Emulation | protium s2 | software development
CDNLive Israel 2019: Celsius, the Dead Sea, Ramallah

By Paul McLellan | 23 Sep 2019

The big announcement at CDNLive Israel was during Anirudh's keynote when he announced the second product in the system analysis space, Celsius. This is a thermal solver using both finite element analysis (for the solid parts) and computation...

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palestine | CDNLive | cdnlive israel
Sunday Brunch Video for 22nd September 2019

By Paul McLellan | 21 Sep 2019

https://youtu.be/6p94sN1fHFY Made at Tel Aviv seafront (camera Carey Guo) Monday: MLPerf: Benchmarking Machine Learning Tuesday: PCIe Gen 4: It's Official, We're Compliant Wednesday: Celsius: Thermal and Electrical Analysis Together...

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500th Anniversary of Magellan's Voyage

By Paul McLellan | 20 Sep 2019

Earlier this year, on July 20, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. I wrote about it—well, mostly about the Apollo Guidance Computer—that day in my post The First Computer on the Moon . Increasingly, getting...

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exploration | Apollo | magellan
Programming Languages for Embedded Systems

By Paul McLellan | 19 Sep 2019

How do you program an embedded system? Say, the code that runs on the control processor on a big SoC? What programming language should you use? I have never really programmed an embedded system, unless you count writing a couple of experimental progr...

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swift | programming | Python | programming languages | rust | Matlab
Celsius: Thermal and Electrical Analysis Together at Last

By Paul McLellan | 18 Sep 2019

Today at CDNLive Israel, Anirudh Devgan, Cadence's President, announced the Celsius Thermal Solver. This is Cadence's second product in the system analysis space, following on from the Clarity 3D Solver, announced at CDNLive Silicon Valley ea...

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celsius | CDNLive | system analysis | Thermal Analysis | cdnlive israel | electrical-thermal analysis
PCIe Gen 4: It's Official, We're Compliant

By Paul McLellan | 17 Sep 2019

Way back in April 2016, I wrote a post about Cadence IP for PCI Express (PCIe) Gen4 where we demonstrated compliance with Mellanox (now part of NVIDIA). As Mellanox's Gilad Shainer said to me when I talked to him back then: interoperability...

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PCIe 4 | PCIe Gen4 | pcie 3
MLPerf: Benchmarking Machine Learning

By Paul McLellan | 16 Sep 2019

Most presentations at the recent HOT CHIPS conference are about actual chips, mostly processors of one kind or another. But in machine learning, there is a need to be able to compare these processors. This is where MLPerf comes in, putting together a...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 15th September 2019

By Paul McLellan | 15 Sep 2019

https://youtu.be/bcAO52jxk10 Made at SFO (camera Carey Guo) Monday: HOT CHIPS: In-DRAM Compute Tuesday: CDNLive India 2019: NXP and More Wednesday: EDPS Preview 2019 Thursday: Intelligent Systems Friday: Intelligent System Design www.breakf...

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