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Jobs: Printer, Baker, Chocolatier, Caver

By Paul McLellan | 21 Aug 2018

Yesterday I covered my first job, as a farm-hand . Today I'll cover some other jobs that I've had that taught me a lot about different aspects of life. I do think everyone benefits from working in jobs that are outside the professional bu...

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Jobs: Farmer

By Paul McLellan | 20 Aug 2018

Last summer, I took Fridays to write about technology museums. I planned to do a series on Fridays this summer on the odd jobs that I have done in my life before I started what you might consider my real career. But then Cadence Cloud took precedence...

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The Brief but Spectacular History of Shockley Labs

By Paul McLellan | 17 Aug 2018

If you read my post Who Put the Silicon in Silicon Valley? then you know my conclusion: Let's go with Shockley. He invented the transistor, came here, hired a bunch of young PhDs, and sent them out (by accident, not design) to create the companies, ...

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Stanford | shockley | fairchildren | Fairchild
SEMICON 5nm: 7nm Is Just a Dress-Rehearsal

By Paul McLellan | 16 Aug 2018

Usually I don't go to the last day of SEMICON West since not much happens that day. But they have got smart, and two of the most interesting sessions took place in TechXPOT (I think you pronounce that Techspot) on Thursday. In the after...

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asml | 5nm | stochastics | GlobalFoundries | 7nm | EUV
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 20th to 24th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 15 Aug 2018

https://youtu.be/6a0znbVfFJk \ Coming from the Cadence parking lot (camera Sean) Monday: Jobs: Farmer, Baker Tuesday: Jobs: Printer, Chocolate Maker Wednesday: Jobs: Programmer, Caver Thursday: Jobs: Some Lessons Learned Friday: Jo...

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CDNDrive Automotive Solutions: the Rear Wheels

By Paul McLellan | 15 Aug 2018

Yesterday was the first of two posts about Cadence Automotive Solutions. Today we go down into the details a bit more. However, there are so many details that this will be more of a map of the landscape so you get an idea of the breadth of our techno...

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automotive | legato | functional safety | ISO 26262 | reliability
CDNDrive Automotive Solutions: the Front Wheels

By Paul McLellan | 14 Aug 2018

Harold Wilson, then Britain's Prime-minister, once said, "A week is a long time in politics." Well, a year is a long time in the current automotive market. I've written quite a bit about the market in general (most recently about th...

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automotive | legato | functional safety | Tensilica | ISO 26262 | FITS
The Birthplace of Silicon Valley: 391 South San Antonio Road

By Paul McLellan | 13 Aug 2018

The birthplace of Silicon Valley really does have an address, 391 South San Antonio Road. In fact, it has two addresses, 844 Charleston Road as well. But the San Antonio Road one is earlier by a couple of years. There will be a plaque unveiling there...

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fairchild semiconductor | computer history museum | shockley laboratory
Deep Learning and the Cloud

By Paul McLellan | 10 Aug 2018

It is an exaggeration to say that deep learning requires the cloud, but the standard way to do the training part of deep learning has become the cloud, especially servers equipped with NVIDIA GPUs. EDA is involved in deep learning in several differen...

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summit supercomputer | magestic | cadence cloud
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 13th to 17th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 10 Aug 2018

https://youtu.be/H03oGGaUfQo Coming from Stevens Creek Mini (camera Sean) Monday: 391 South San Antonio Road Tuesday: CDNDrive: Cadence Automotive Solutions Wednesday: 7nm Is a Dress Rehearsal for 5nm Thursday: The Birthplac...

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automotive | shockley | cloud | Fairchild | 5nm | 7nm | EUV
Breakfast Buffet for July

By Paul McLellan | 9 Aug 2018

https://youtu.be/JQz3cseZcZc The three highlighted posts for July were: CDNLive Japan: 対応ポートフォリオ Liberate Trio: Characterization Suite in the Cloud Cadence Is MAGESTIC Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.

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CHIPs in the Cadence Cafeteria

By Paul McLellan | 9 Aug 2018

Last week it was the Annual San Jose Intern Showcase, in which the San Jose based interns all set up posters across the back of the building 10 cafeteria for a couple of hours. How Many Interns Are There? I go to this event, talk to some interns, and...

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Interns | intern showcase | chips
CDNLive Japan: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Third Dimension

By Paul McLellan | 8 Aug 2018

At CDNLive Japan, Tom Beckley gave the keynote Enabling the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). At one point he announced Sigrity 2018, the latest version of the Sigrity power and signal integrity analysis tool, now merging in a lot of mecha...

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cdnlive japan | Tom Beckley | power integrity | 4th industrial revolution | signal integrity | Thermal Analysis | Sigrity
Lung Chu on Semiconductor in China

By Paul McLellan | 7 Aug 2018

I talked Friday about the Chinese American Semiconductor Professionals Association (CASPA) summer event in my post CASPA: Innovation with Chinese Characters . Ajit Manocha, the CEO of SEMI, gave a short opening welcome and introduced Lung Chu, wh...

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Simulation in the Cloud

By Paul McLellan | 6 Aug 2018

Yes, despite the blue skies, Fridays are still cloudy. And, yes, this isn't Friday. Due to a migraine out of the blue, Friday got postponed to Monday. When I was at CDNLive Japan, Craig Johnson ran a demonstration of using Orchestrator to launch ...

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rocketick | cadence cloud | xcelium | simulation
CASPA: Innovation with Chinese Characteristics

By Paul McLellan | 3 Aug 2018

A couple of times per year, the Chinese American Semiconductor Professionals Association (CASPA) holds a meeting. Despite the name, you don't have to be Chinese to go, and all the presentations are in English (although sometimes there are slides with...

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risc-v | China | lithium battery | semi | lithium ion | caspa | sitri | battery | sifive
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 7th to 11th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 2 Aug 2018

https://youtu.be/xPVzOfBHGlM Coming from Cadence Intern Showcase (camera Sean) Monday: CASPA: Innovation with Chinese Characteristics Tuesday: Lung Chu on Semiconductor in China Wednesday: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the...

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ITF: CFETs and New Interconnect

By Paul McLellan | 2 Aug 2018

At the imec technology forum (ITF) held the day before SEMICON West opened, two of the presentations were about future technologies, one focused on the FEOL, front-end-of-line, meaning the transistors. The other was focused on BEOL, back-end-of-...

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3nm | cfet | ruthenium | imec | itf
How to Pitch a Journalist

By Paul McLellan | 1 Aug 2018

In the early part of my career, I was an engineer or an engineering manager. Then, I moved into operational management and marketing, which meant I spent a fair bit of my time talking to journalists. Without really planning it, when I found myse...

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journalism | marketing
GLOBALFOUNDRIES' CTO State-of-the-Roadmaps

By Paul McLellan | 31 Jul 2018

At SEMICON I got to sit down with Gary Patton, the CTO of GlobalFoundries. They have a dual roadmap, with both 14nm FinFET (licensed from Samsung) going to 7nm (internally developed), and with the other track being FD-SOI (licensed originally from ST...

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22fdx | 12fdx | gary patton | FinFET | GlobalFoundries | FD-SOI
Dave Patterson on Becoming a Computer Scientist...and Going Directly to Happiness

By Paul McLellan | 30 Jul 2018

At SEMICON West, Dave Patterson (center) sat down for an interview with author John Markoff (left). Also on stage was Mark Hill (right), who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin, but he was one of Dave's early students at UC Berkeley. D...

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turing award | RISC | UC Berkeley | dave patterson
Turning Fixed Costs into Variable Costs: Foundries and Clouds

By Paul McLellan | 27 Jul 2018

One trend that has been accelerating for a couple of decades is turning fixed costs into variable costs. Often this is what is behind outsourcing some capability. Sometimes it is driven purely by lower variable costs (let's hire a team in Shanghai) o...

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EDA | cloud | cadence cloud | mobile | fixed cost
Breakfast Bytes Guide to Armenia

By Paul McLellan | 26 Jul 2018

Every summer for a week I go hiking with a group of friends. We used to just go to Yosemite, but then we went to Alaska and hiked the Chilkoot trail (I have walked from the US into Canada...not sure if I count as an illegal alien). We did Kilimanjaro...

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yerevan | genocide | khachkar | armenia | Virage Logic
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 30th to August 3rd 2018

By Paul McLellan | 25 Jul 2018

https://youtu.be/HoEoMWal_48 Coming from DARPA ERI Summit at Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco (camera Frank Schirrmeister) Monday: Dave Patterson on Becoming a Computer Scientist...and Going Directly to Happiness Tuesday: GLOBALFOUNDRIES...

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interconnect | cfet | imec | cadence cloud | xcelium | GlobalFoundries | simulation | dave patterson
Trends, Technologies, and Regulations in China's Auto Market

By Paul McLellan | 25 Jul 2018

At "Ludwigsburg", officially the International Autombil Elektronik Kongress, there was a push this year to be more international. In particular, attendees last year had asked for a deeper perspective on what is happening in the largest auto...

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automotive | China | volkswagen

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