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Education, Occupation, and You: Vishal Kapoor at SJSU

By Paul McLellan | 20 Oct 2017

Earlier this week, Jim Hogan hosted the next evening at San Jose State University on Preparing for the Cognitive Era , with Vishal Kapoor. If you work at or deal with Cadence, and his name seems familiar, that's because he worked at Cadence from 2003 to 2012 in several senior positions. Most recently, he is the founder of Three-Legged Stool , which is a consulting firm that works with organizations in the concept...

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 23rd to 27th 2017

By Paul McLellan | 19 Oct 2017

(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from SJSU Theater (camera Sean) Monday: Arm Announcement (embargoed) Tuesday: Cadence Announcement (embargoed) Wednesday: Why Was Arm Successful in Mobile? Thursday: Oski Formal Verification Club (with Arm and Arteris) Friday: Post Silicon Compute www.breakfastbytes.com Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.

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Mark Papermaster: Moore's Law Plus

By Paul McLellan | 19 Oct 2017

Recently, I wrote about Robert Lang's presentation on Computational Origami . He was a real paper master. The CTO of AMD is Mark Papermaster, although I think he is more of a silicon master than a paper master. At SEMI's strategic materials conference, he gave the opening keynote, The Future of Semiconductors—Moore's Law Plus . At one level, there is an almost unlimited demand for compute power. This...

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How to Build and Connect a Trillion Things: Arm TechCon Preview

By Paul McLellan | 18 Oct 2017

Rob Aitken is digging a bit deeper into what it would really take to connect a trillion things in his keynote at Arm TechCon How to Build and Connect a Trillion Things . What would those things be? What might unit volumes be? How could we power them? Secure them? Manufacture them? He is talking on Thursday morning at 10.10am The keynotes are open to everyone, even an "exhibits only" pass. But I couldn't...

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security | ARM Techcon | trust | IoT | Internet of Things | ARM | Breakfast Bytes
The Empire Long Divided Must Unite

By Paul McLellan | 17 Oct 2017

Chinese children are familiar with the opening lines of Romance of the Three Kingdoms : The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, it must divide. Thus it has ever been. As Ben Horowitz (of Andreesen-Horowitz) says in his new book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things : The first rule of organizational design is that all organizational designs are bad. In my limited experience of management...

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Are We There Yet? Metric-Driven Signoff

By Paul McLellan | 16 Oct 2017

Are we there yet? All verification suffers from the problem of trying to decide when enough verification has been done. It is not possible to exhaustively simulate everything on a chip and so completeness cannot be the criterion (exhaustion, however, is optional, usually on the part of the design team). At CDNLive in Bengaluru, Narender Kumar and Ravin Shah of ST Microelectronics (and Anshul Singhal of Cadence) presented...

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CDNLive | Metric Driven Verification | ST Microelectronics | MDV | simulation | Breakfast Bytes | vManager | verification
Rowen on Vision, Innovation, and the Deep Learning Explosion

By Paul McLellan | 13 Oct 2017

The keynote for the second day of the Linley Processor Conference was by Chris Rowen. Chris was the founder of Tensilica, and became the CTO of the IP group when Cadence acquired them. A year or so ago, he left Cadence to work in deep learning and founded Cognite Ventures. This is a hot area. As a symptom of just how hot, NIPS, the Neural Information Processing Symposium, is sold out this year. It's the Vision...

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Linley Gwennap on the Microprocessor Market

By Paul McLellan | 12 Oct 2017

Linley Gewennap always gives the opening keynote for the Linley Microprocessor Conference. This year, he titled it Processor Innovation Supersedes Moore's Law . The basic theme was something that I've talked about before (for example, Are General Purpose Microprocessors Over? and Fifty Years of Computer Architecture: the Last 30 Years ), Moore's Law Is Over The theme is that we don't get better processors...

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automotive | Intel | risc-v | linley processor conference | deeplearningmachinelearning | processor | AMD | linley group | IoT | Tensilica | Internet of Things | ADAS | ARM | Breakfast Bytes
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 16th to 20th 2017

By Paul McLellan | 11 Oct 2017

(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from a cartoon world (camera Sean) Monday: Are We There Yet? Metric Driven Signoff Tuesday: The Empire Long Divided Must Unite Wednesday: Mark Papermaster: Moore's Law Plus Thursday: Oski Formal Verification Club Friday: Preparing for the Cognitive Era with Vishal Kapoor www.breakfastbytes.com Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast...

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The Rise of the China IC Industry

By Paul McLellan | 11 Oct 2017

At the SEMI Strategic Materials Conference, SMC, Lung Chu, who heads up SEMI China (and worked at Cadence at one point in his career) talked about The Rise of China IC Industry: Challenges and Opportunities . There are a number of amazing facts about the China semiconductor industry, ranging from semiconductors being a bigger import than oil into China, to 24 fabs being under construction in China, to the semiconductor...

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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

By Paul McLellan | 10 Oct 2017

Last week was the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), held in Orlando Florida (it moves around each year). It was created by Telle Whitney and Anita Borg back in 1994. Anita died in 2003 from a brain tumor and Telle runs that conference as CEO of the Anita Borg institute, previously the Institute for Women and Technology, renamed in Anita's memory (although Telle retired at the event and passed the...

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Logical Equivalence Checking to Get Smart

By Paul McLellan | 9 Oct 2017

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a TV show called "Get Smart." It was a sort of cross between a James Bond movie, and a Mel Brooks movie, not least because it was created by Mel Brooks. Given that, you won't be surprised to know that the show was more Mel Brooks than James Bond, and Maxwell Smart, our hero, was anything but smart. Even if you are too young to have seen the show, you might have...

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Computational Origami

By Paul McLellan | 6 Oct 2017

At the recent Decoding Formal Club meeting, organized by Oski and sponsored by Cadence, there was a presentation on computational origami. That sounds like a great marketing name for formal verification, but in fact it was indeed what it sounds like. I freely admit that this is a bit off topic—but it was at a Formal Verification event, that's close enough for me. There is a surprising amount of mathematics...

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EDPS: The Remains of the Day

By Paul McLellan | 5 Oct 2017

EDPS is the Electronic Design Process Symposium, historically held in Monterey, but this year in Milpitas for the first time. My first post about the symposium is Solving the Design to Manufacturing Problems in Milpitas . That post ended saying that the rest of the day was taken up by two more sessions: Machine learning in manufacturing and design (Cadence's David White being one of the speakers) EDA and...

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CDNLive Taiwan Automotive Panel

By Paul McLellan | 4 Oct 2017

At CDNLive in Taiwan in August, there was a record number of attendees, with about 880 customers and partners. There were almost 40 presentations on six different technical tracks, including a wide variety of user-authored presentations addressing all aspects of design and IP creation, integration, and verification. As with all the CDNLive events around the world, one of the major aims is for users of Cadence tools and...

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automotive | hsinchu | CDNLive | TSMC | Renesas | cdnlive taiwan | phison | ADAS | Breakfast Bytes
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 9th to 13th 2017

By Paul McLellan | 3 Oct 2017

(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Alum Rock Park (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Conformal Smart LEC Tuesday: Grace Hopper Celebrating Women in Computing Wednesday: SEMI on China Semiconductor Market Thursday: Linley Gwennap on the Processor Market Friday: Chris Rowen on Vision and Innovation www.breakfastbytes.com Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.

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Scaling Embedded Inference Performance for Deep Learning

By Paul McLellan | 3 Oct 2017

Tomorrow it is the Linley Microprocessor Conference and Pulin Desai of Cadence is one of the presenters this morning. He will be talking about Scaling Embedded Inference Performance for Deep Learning . Deep Learning Of course, Deep Learning (DL) is one of the hottest topics around right now. The reason is simple. There are lots of tasks for which the algorithmic approach is very difficult, since it is very difficult...

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AMD's Early Experience with Portable Stimulus

By Paul McLellan | 2 Oct 2017

PSS is the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard. Or I should say proposed standard, since it isn't finalized yet. At CDNLive India, Prabhat Gupta of AMD presented First Encounter with Emerging Portable Stimulus Methodology. Of course, since the standard isn't final yet, there are moving parts in all of this, but AMD decided to try it all out on a pilot project involving the Ryzen muliti-core, multi-thread CPU...

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Building a Business Model

By Paul McLellan | 29 Sep 2017

You know how you sometimes say "the other day" as if it was last week, or maybe the week before, when actually it was several months ago? Well, the other day, I attended a presentation by Garage Technology Ventures on The Art and Science of Building Your Business Model . It was presented by Bill Reichert, who is the managing director there. He is also the creator of The Art of Startup Finance , part of the Kaufman...

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SJSU School of Cognitive Science

By Paul McLellan | 28 Sep 2017

Jim Hogan is a graduate of San Jose State University. Despite the prestige of Stanford and Berkeley producing a lot of researchers, SJSU is a major resource producing the large cadre of practitioners that Silicon Valley requires. Last week, at SJSU, Jim presented his thoughts on what he calls the fourth industrial revolution, what he calls "The Cognitive Era." He repeated the presentation the following evening...

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Machine Learning for Higher Performance Machine Learning

By Paul McLellan | 27 Sep 2017

The second day keynote at the recent (well, over a month ago, there's been lots to blog about) HOTCHIPS conference in Cupertino was by Google's Jeff Dean, who heads up the Google Brain Team. He talked on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and the Implications for Computer System Design . He gave an introduction to deep learning and deep neural networks. One point he made in his introductory remarks was...

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 2nd to 6th 2017

By Paul McLellan | 26 Sep 2017

(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from my car (camera Sean) Monday: AMD's early experiences with PSS Tuesday: Accelerating deep learning with Tensilica Wednesday: Jim Hogan at SJSU Thursday: EDPS II Friday: Decoding Formal Club www.breakfastbytes.com Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.

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deep learning | tensiilica | formal | EDPS | sjsu | portabe stimulus standard | Jim Hogan | pss | Formal verification
SEMI Strategic Materials Conference

By Paul McLellan | 26 Sep 2017

Yesterday I wrote about EDPS, which takes place at SEMI. Today, I'm writing about SEMI's Strategic Materials Conference (SMC), which doesn't take place at SEMI but at the Doubletree. A few decades ago, semiconductor manufacturing only used a few elements: polysilicon gates over silicon oxide gate oxide, wiith some trace implants of boron and arsenic, and aluminum interconnect. Over time that has got a lot...

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Solving the Design to Manufacturing Problems in Milpitas

By Paul McLellan | 25 Sep 2017

HOT NEWS: In case you missed it, right at the end of last week, British GPU and CPU (MIPS) maker Imagination was brought by Canyon Bridge, Chinese money but run out of Palo Alto. One of the partners is Ray Bingham, who used to be CEO of Cadence (and my boss) for much of my last tour of duty at Cadence. They were also the fund that tried to purchase Lattice, but that was blocked by CFIUS. If you don't know what CFIUS...

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Cisco | hvm | manufacturing | synopsys | data-centric computer architecture
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 25th to 29th 2017

By Paul McLellan | 22 Sep 2017

(Please visit the site to view this video) Coming from Testarossa Winery, Los Gatos (camera Corrie) Monday: EDPS Tuesday: SEMI Strategic Materials Conference Wednesday: Jim Hogan at SJSU Thursday: Using Neural Nets to Make Neural Nets Friday: Business Models www.breakfastbytes.com Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.

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