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Samsung Galaxy S9's Application Processor

By Paul McLellan | 20 Sep 2018

At this year's HOT CHIPS, Jeff Rupley of Samsung presented the application processor that goes in their Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones. Apple only ever gives cursory information about their Ax chips, and I don't remember seeing a lot of detail...

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Samsung | m3 | 10nm | galaxy
The New Tensilica DNA 100 Deep Neural-network Accelerator

By Paul McLellan | 19 Sep 2018

Today, at the beautiful Tegernsee resort outside Munich in Germany, Cadence announced their latest processor IP, the Tensilica DNA 100 Deep Neural-network Accelerator. This is a highly scalable processor with a range from 0.5 TMACS (tera mu...

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xnnc | android neural networks | dna 100 | caffe | TensorFlow | Tensilica | neural network
HOT CHIPS: Some HOT Deep Learning Processors

By Paul McLellan | 18 Sep 2018

If there was a theme running through the recent HOT CHIPS conference in Cupertino then it was deep learning. There were two sessions on machine learning, but also every processor described in the server processor session had something to handle deep ...

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Intel | deep learning | processor | NVIDIA | machine learning | hot chips | ARM
CDNLive India: Asynchronous Design

By Paul McLellan | 17 Sep 2018

Every few years the idea of doing completely clockless design gets proposed again. This is also known as locally asynchronous design (no clocks at all), as opposed to simply having lots of clock domains and having asynchronous communication from one ...

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CDNLive India | jasper gold | Texas Instruments | Formal verification
Intel's Cascade Lake: Deep Learning, Spectre/Meltdown, Storage Class Memory

By Paul McLellan | 14 Sep 2018

At the recent HOT CHIPS in Cupertino, Sujal Vora of Intel gave a look inside the Future Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Codename: Cascade Lake-SP). To make sure we all stayed to the end, this was the last presentation in the conference. The three...

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Intel | meltdown | cascade lake | deep learning | storage class memory | optane | Spectre | 3dxpoint
Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 3

By Paul McLellan | 13 Sep 2018

I gave an introduction to speculative execution and the vulnerabilities that have come to light this year in my post Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 1 . Yesterday, I covered the first half of the keynote (John Hennessy, Paul Tur...

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meltdown | architecture | processor | Spectre | speculative execution
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 17th to 21st 2018

By Paul McLellan | 12 Sep 2018

https://youtu.be/3drxzhMFGD8 Coming from PCB West (camera Sean) Monday: HOT CHIPS: Some HOT Deep Learning Processors Tuesday: Intel Cascade Lake Wednesday: Embargoed Announcement from Tegensee Thursday: Samsung Galaxy S9...

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Intel | CDNLive India | cascade lake | NVIDIA | Samsung | hot chips | ARM
Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 2

By Paul McLellan | 12 Sep 2018

I gave an introduction to speculative execution and the vulnerabilities that have come to light this year in yesterday's post Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 1 . There were 4 panelists at Hot Chips, chaired by Partha Rangana...

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meltdown | processor | Spectre | cache | speculative execution | foreshadow
Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 1

By Paul McLellan | 11 Sep 2018

At HOT CHIPS, one of the "keynotes" was actually a panel of what I'll call industry luminaries. They were discussing the implications of vulnerabilities such as Spectre, Meltdown, and the recently announced Foreshadow. This is the most ...

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Intel | meltdown | processor | Spectre | cache | ARM | speculative execution | foreshadow
CDNLive India

By Paul McLellan | 10 Sep 2018

CDNLive India took place last week. As usual, I made the long trip from California, nearly 30 hours door to door. There is aways something remarkable on these long flights and this time it was the WiFi pricing. It is nearly 50% more ($30.00 vs $21.99...

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PCAST: The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

By Paul McLellan | 7 Sep 2018

In January 2017, a report Ensuring Long-Term U.S.Leadership in Semiconductors was delivered to the President. It was not yet the 20th of the month, so that was still President Obama. I read the report at the time but made the mistake of not...

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electronics resurgence initiative | Hennessy | magestic | pcast | eri | darpa
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 10th to 14th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 6 Sep 2018

https://youtu.be/iv9wdAVB6vg Coming from CDNLive India (camera Seena Shankar) Monday: CDNLive India Tuesday: Numbers Everyone Should Know Wednesday: Spectre/Meltdown and What It Means for Future Design 1 Thursday: Spectre/Meltdown...

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meltdown | CDNLive India | CDNLive | Spectre | hot chips
Numbers Everyone Should Know

By Paul McLellan | 6 Sep 2018

At the recent HOT CHIPS, Paul Turner of Google Project Zero talked about numbers everyone should know. These numbers, actually latencies, seem originally to come from Peter Norvig but have been updated by a number of people since his original table, ...

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cpu speed | cache | networking
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Drops 7nm to Focus on Other Geometries

By Paul McLellan | 5 Sep 2018

GF put out a press release last week with the title GF Reshapes Technology Portfolio to Intensify Focus on Growing Demand for Differentiated Offerings. What this actually means is that GF is putting its 7nm process development on hold ...

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Intel | AMD | Samsung | TSMC | 5nm | GlobalFoundries | 7nm | EUV
Ambit Design Systems

By Paul McLellan | 4 Sep 2018

Twenty years ago today, Cadence announced it was acquiring Ambit Design Systems. Actually, the anniversary of the announcement is really September 3rd, but since that is a public holiday this year, I slipped it a day. The actual acquisition didn'...

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ambit | Synthesis | buildgates
Labor Day Off-Topic: Almost Everyone Has More Than the Average Number of Legs

By Paul McLellan | 3 Sep 2018

It's Labor Day. Cadence is closed in the US. Unfortunately, I'm in India and it's not a holiday here. It's CDNLive India later in the week. As is traditional, I will post about...whatever I feel like. Everyone seems to like these off...

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math | off-topic | mathematics
HOT CHIPS Tutorial: On-Device Inference

By Paul McLellan | 31 Aug 2018

The Sunday of the annual HOT CHIPS (the 30th!) conference is tutorial day. In the morning, it was the Blockchain, which I missed due to other commitments. in the afternoon it was Deep Learning. This was divided into 3 parts: Overview of Deep Learnin...

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deep learning | inference | Tensilica | hot chips | inferene | neural networks
Breakfast Buffet for August

By Paul McLellan | 30 Aug 2018

https://youtu.be/elQgyXvkcjU The three highlighted posts for August were: Two posts on Shockley Labs: The Birthplace of Silicon Valley: 391 South San Antonio Road The Brief but Spectacular History of Shockley Labs SEMICON 5nm: 7nm Is Just a D...

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shockley | jobs | eri | darpa
Google's Titan: How They Stop You Slipping a Bogus Server into Their Datacenter

By Paul McLellan | 30 Aug 2018

At the recent HOT CHIPS conference, Scott Johnson of Google talked about some challenges that Google has. There have been stories about hackers infiltrating malware into the supply chain. Given the stories about the NSA intercepting Cisco router ship...

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security | titan | google | supply chain | secure boot
Carbon Nanotube Memory: Too Good to Be True?

By Paul McLellan | 29 Aug 2018

One of the sessions at HOT CHIPS is on new technologies, and one of those presentations was by Bill Gervasi of Nantero on Architecture for Carbon Nanotube Based Memory (NRAM). The technology sounds too good to be true, as someone in the au...

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Memory | cnt | carbon nanotube | DRAM | hot chips | nram
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 3rd to 7th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 28 Aug 2018

https://youtu.be/ipUI2OaAWX4 \ Coming from the old Ambit Design Systems office on Augustine Drive (camera Bill Deegan) Monday: Labor Day Off-Topic: Almost Everyone Has More Than the Average Number of Legs Tuesday: Ambit Design Systems Wednes...

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chiplets | ambit | buildgates | pcast | eri | darpa | chips
ImageNet: The Benchmark that Changed Everything

By Paul McLellan | 28 Aug 2018

I like to date technical transitions from specific events, even though realistically they take place over an extended period. For example, I think the modern era of IC design and EDA started with the publication of "Mead & Conway" which...

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imagenet | gtsdb | Tensilica | CNN | neural network
Sanjay Goes to Europe via Texas

By Paul McLellan | 27 Aug 2018

While I was in Germany recently, I sat down with the head of Cadence EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, and Africa), Sanjay Lall. Back when we were both a lot younger, we both worked at VLSI Technology. I was a software development engineer, he was an a...

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automotive | cadence europe | cadence emea
Crossing the Chasm: Hogan Interviews Amit Gupta

By Paul McLellan | 24 Aug 2018

The ESD Alliance will host another of its startup evenings with Jim Hogan, entitled Crossing the Chasm: Building a Startup to a Successful Exit. It is actually the evening in the middle of EDPS, the Electronic Design Process Symposium, as a sort of d...

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semi | amit gupta | Jim Hogan | esd alliance | solido
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 27th to 31st 2018

By Paul McLellan | 23 Aug 2018

https://youtu.be/hxqDm1EAS7M \ Coming from the flagpoles in front of building 5 (camera Sean) Monday: PCAST: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Tuesday: DARPA's Electronics Resurgence Initiative Wednesday: ER...

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chiplets | openroad | eri | darpa | chips

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