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Accelerating AI: ...Present and Future

By Paul McLellan | 22 May 2018

Yesterday I wrote about the first part of Krste Asanović's presentation Accelerating AI: Past, Present, and Future. Although yesterday's post only covered the past. Today, it's time for the present and future. Graphics Processing Units GP...

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artificial intelligence | risc-v | Krste Asanović | sifive
Accelerating AI: Past...

By Paul McLellan | 21 May 2018

SiFive does a quarterly series of tech talks, not necessarily directly to do with SiFive or even RISC-V. For example, last quarter it was Paul Kocher (and if you don't know that name, you need to go and read my post about that talk Paul...

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artificial intelligence | risc-v | neural networks | Krste Asanović | sifive
CGTN China 24 Interview

By Paul McLellan | 18 May 2018

https://youtu.be/O1r7cqyVm90 I was on China24 on CGTNAmerica earlier this week, being interviewed about the Chinese Semiconductor Industry. www.breakfastbytes.com Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.

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China | china24 | cgtn
Achronix Grew 700% Last Year...eFPGA is a Thing

By Paul McLellan | 18 May 2018

I don't normally write about the FPGA market. There are three reasons for this. First, Cadence doesn't participate in the market for FPGA tools (for FPGA users. I'm pretty sure the arrays themselves are almost all designed on Virtuos...

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Intel | embedded fpga | achronix | intel custom foundry | FPGA
CDNDrive: ISO 26262...Chapter 11

By Paul McLellan | 17 May 2018

At CDNLive EMEA Robert Schweiger laid out his perspective on the automotive market. At April’s CDNLive Silicon Valley too, but as you might guess from his name, Germany is his home. Sanjay Lall, the head of Cadence EMEA, had told me the day bef...

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automotive | functional safety | CDNLive | CDNLive EMEA | Tensilica | ISO 26262
TSMC: Mobile, HPC, IoT, Automotive...and Packaging

By Paul McLellan | 16 May 2018

This is the third post about the TSMC Technology Symposium that was held on May 1st. The first two are TSMC Technology Symposium 2018 and TSMC's Fab Plans and More . In the afternoon, there were four presentations: Doug Yu on Advanced Packag...

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automotive | IoT | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium | mobile
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 21st to 25th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 15 May 2018

https://youtu.be/AmlYRYzIHtY Coming from my office (camera Sean, guest star Alexa) Monday: Accelerating AI: Past... Tuesday: Accelerating AI: ...Present, and Future Wednesday: MEMS Design Competition. The Envelope Please Thursday: The...

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accelerating AI | CDNLive | embedded vision | Tensilica | gdpr | MEMS
CDNLive: Testing Times in Munich

By Paul McLellan | 15 May 2018

Test is the red headed step child of EDA. FinFETs, self-aligned quadruple patterning, or parallel simulation get all the attention. But a chip doesn't only have to be manufactured, it also has to be tested. At CDNLive EMEA I met Erik Jan Marinissen o...

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modus test | CDNLive | Scan test | modus | imec | Test
Agile Development of Custom Hardware

By Paul McLellan | 14 May 2018

It was back in 2016 that I first heard about RISC-V, and the Raven implementation, and the Chisel hardware design language that Berkeley had developed. See my post A Raven Has Landed—RISC-V and Chisel . The thing that was most impressive wa...

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bag | chisel | agile software development | waterfall | raven | agile hardware development | UC Berkeley | Agile
Compromising a Fortune 500 Company...Without Hacking a Thing

By Paul McLellan | 11 May 2018

Rachel Tobac and Joe Gray opened their talk at RSA by highlighting how important social engineering has become. For example, Ubiquity Networks lost $39M in 30 minutes through social engineering. Whoever took the money targeted the company&#...

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security | rsa conference | rsa | social engineering
CDNLive EMEA, Driving to the Future

By Paul McLellan | 10 May 2018

This week it has been the 13th European CDNLive, held in Unertschleißheim in the suburbs of Munich. The event starts on Monday afternoon with some technical tracks. The big day is Tuesday, starting with the keynotes, and then going to a full p...

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automotive | legato | CDNLive | CDNLive EMEA | AI
Digital Marketing in EDA...with No Hands on the Wheel

By Paul McLellan | 9 May 2018

Years (decades) ago, Robert Townsend, the CEO of Avis, faced a problem. Hertz was several times as big as Avis. Avis was losing money. He asked the Bill Bernbach, the head of his advertising agency DDB, how he could effectively get $2 of advertising...

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google | YouTube | digital marketing | Twitter | adwords | onespin | esd alliance
Legato: Smooth Reliability for Automobiles

By Paul McLellan | 8 May 2018

In his keynote at ICCAD in 2014, Bosch's VP engineering Peter van Staa said that EDA would "probably not" solve the problems of automotive, since they are totally focused on the leading-edge nodes. Well, that was four years ago, and EDA has got autom...

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legato | CDNLive | CDNLive EMEA | reliability
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 14th to 18th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 7 May 2018

https://youtu.be/T4Pu_l6upso Coming from Englischergarten Munich (camera Andy Le) Monday: Agile Development of Custom Hardware Tuesday: CDNLive EMEA Session Wednesday: TSMC: Mobile, HPC, IoT, Automotive...and Packaging Thursday:&...

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bag | CDNLive | efpga | chisel | CDNLive EMEA | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium | FPGA
TSMC's Fab Plans, and More

By Paul McLellan | 7 May 2018

The TSMC Technology Symposium took place recently. I grouped all the process and packaging roadmap into my previous post TSMC Technology Symposium 2018 . Today I'll look at the rest of what was presented in the morning. Subsequently I'll put t...

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gigafab | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium
TSMC Technology Symposium 2018

By Paul McLellan | 4 May 2018

This week it was the TSMC Technology Symposium in Silicon Valley. Dave Keller, president of TSMC North America was the MC for the day. Dave kicked off by giving a few statistics about TSMC's business in North America. In Q4 last year, North Ameri...

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n5 | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium | n7+ | n7 | 5nm | 7nm
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 7th to 11th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 3 May 2018

https://youtu.be/OJRKUHltc1c Coming from Teske's Germania (camera Sean) Monday: TSMC Fab Plans and More Tuesday: embargoed announcement Wednesday: Digital Marketing in EDA Thursday: CDNLive EMEA 2018 Friday: Compromising a Fo...

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CDNLive EMEA | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium | digital marketing | social engineering | esd alliance
The San Jose Tech Museum

By Paul McLellan | 3 May 2018

Last summer, I did a series of posts about technology museums. If you missed them, here are the links: The Intel Museum German Computer Museums British Computer Museums The Computer History Museum Four Early Computers 1&2 and Four Early Com...

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security | san jose | the tech | body worlds
DDR5 IP Test Chip Operates with Micron Prototype DRAM at 4400 MT/s

By Paul McLellan | 2 May 2018

The DDR5 standard has not been finalized by JEDEC, and they are very strict about not allowing anyone to claim DDR5 compatibility until the standard is complete. That is expected sometime this summer. However, getting designs into silicon can't w...

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ddr5 | DDR4 | TSMC | DRAM | DDR | 7nm
WoW! TSMC Sticks Whole Wafers Together

By Paul McLellan | 1 May 2018

Today it is the TSMC Technology Symposium. As always, Cadence is making several announcements jointly with TSMC. 5nm and 7nm+ This isn't the biggest surprise announcement of the year. Cadence is collaborating with TSMC on 5nm and 7nm+ high-performanc...

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wow | 3DIC | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium
AMI for DDR5 Made Easy

By Paul McLellan | 30 Apr 2018

In a post last week, I covered IBIS and AMI. One big change that is happening is that the DDR5 standard will (indirectly) mandate using AMI models. DDR5 In the DDR5 standard, which is expected to be published in summer 2018, DRAM will ...

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ddr5 | DDR4 | ami builder | DRAM | Sigrity
Some Real Russian Hacking

By Paul McLellan | 27 Apr 2018

Patrick Wardle and Mikhail Sosonkin were in Moscow for a PHDays (positive hacking). Gianna Toboni of HBO's VICE News was there too, shooting an episode. The program reached out and asked, "Can you hack our producer?" They were prom...

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security | rsa conference | hbo | rsa
Qualcomm and Arm Drink Their Own Champagne

By Paul McLellan | 26 Apr 2018

Everyone in EDA is familiar with the phenomenon where the internal testing of a tool all goes perfectly, the initial customer checkout flights of the tool go well. Then when that same customer starts to use the tool for real, on a real design, all so...

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arm server | Qualcomm | xcelium | ARM
RSA Cryptographers' Panel

By Paul McLellan | 25 Apr 2018

The RSA Conference is the biggest conference in security. This year there are 50,000 attendees. Yes, security is on everyone's radar, finally. It is in the Moscone center, in all of North, South, and West. Although it feels like the conference is...

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quantum computing | security | rsa conference | rsa | cryptography | Spectre
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 30th to May 4th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 24 Apr 2018

https://youtu.be/Zpui6QhXM_o Coming from The San Jose Tech Museum (camera Sean) Monday: AMI for DDR5 Tuesday: TSMC related embargoed announcement Wednesday: TSMC related announcement Thursday: TSMC Technology Symposium ...

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ddr5 | AMI | the tech | TSMC | TSMC Technology Symposium | algorithmic modeling interface

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