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What Is Zonal Architecture? And Why Is it Upending the Automotive Supply Chain?

Earlier this week I wrote about the electric vehicle (EV) transition, how it is happening…

Paul McLellan
• 7 min read
ota , Automotive , tier-1 , featured , zonal architecture

The Automotive Electric Vehicle Transition

The only really interesting part of the automotive industry is the electric vehicle…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
Automotive , Electrification , featured , ev , nev

Richard Goering, 1952-2023

I have some sad news to report. Richard Goering passed away last month at the age…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
featured , Richard Goering , EETimes
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The History of CMOS...and the History of Cadence and imec

Today, in Antwerp, Belgium, Anirudh Devgan, the CEO of Cadence, is presenting at…

Paul McLellan
• 9 min read
hi-k metal gate , backside pdn , NMOS , imec , CMOS , FinFET , itf

TSMC Technology Roadmap, 2023 Version

April brings one of the two times during the year that TSMC lays out its process…

Paul McLellan
• 10 min read
TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , tsmc process roadmap

What Is Zonal Architecture? And Why Is it Upending the Automotive Supply Chain?

Earlier this week I wrote about the electric vehicle (EV) transition, how it is happening…

Paul McLellan
• 7 min read
ota , Automotive , tier-1 , featured , zonal architecture , oem

The Automotive Electric Vehicle Transition

The only really interesting part of the automotive industry is the electric vehicle…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
Automotive , Electrification , featured , ev , nev

Richard Goering, 1952-2023

I have some sad news to report. Richard Goering passed away last month at the age…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
featured , Richard Goering , EETimes

CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2023

Last week was CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
cadencelive silicon valley , cadencelive

4nm 112G-ELR SerDes PHY IP

That's a lot of buzzwords! I assume you already know that SerDes stands for serializer…

Paul McLellan
• 4 min read
pam4 , 4nm , 112g , SerDes

The 50th Anniversary of Picasso's Death

Today, 8th April 2023, is the 50th anniversary of the death of Picasso. He died on…

Paul McLellan
• 4 min read
france , sophia antipolis , Picasso

IEDM: Backside Power Delivery

One part of the short course that I attended at IEDM in December was about backside…

Paul McLellan
• 6 min read
PDN , backside power , bpr , bs-pdn , buried power rail , Power Delivery Network , DTCO

DesignCon: Boston Dynamics' Keynote...Plus Spot

I wrote about Ben Gu's keynote from DesignCon earlier this week in my post DesignCon…

Paul McLellan
• 4 min read
DesignCon , boston dynamics , spot , robot

How to Make Chiplets a Viable Market

At the recent Chiplet Summit, there was a panel session on the last afternoon titled…

Paul McLellan
• 12 min read
chiplet , chiplet summit

DesignCon: Ben Gu's Keynote

There were two keynotes during DesignCon, one by Ben Gu, Cadence's VP of the System…

Paul McLellan
• 5 min read
ben gu , DesignCon , system analysis

DATE 2023 in Antwerp Preview

Design and Test Europe (DATE) is coming up in April. It will be in person and it…

Paul McLellan
• 4 min read
DATE , featured , design and test europe , date 2023 , antwerp

Sunday Brunch Video for 5th February 2023

https://youtu.be/BgbCT-QcNBo Made at DesignCon (camera Steve Brown) Monday: The…

Paul McLellan
• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Chiplet Summit: Challenges of Chiplet-Based Designs

I wrote the first post, The Chiplet Summit , from the recent Chiplet Summit in San…

Paul McLellan
• 9 min read
security , chiplet , kgd , 3Dblox , 3DIC , cdxml , 2.5D IC , interposer , chiplet summit

Design in a System Context

If you ask pretty much anyone what Cadence does, the first thing they are likely…

Paul McLellan
• 6 min read
Automotive , chiplet , iiot , mobile , datacenter

Where Is My Flying Car?

I recently came across an excellent book, Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall…

Paul McLellan
• 7 min read
flying car , progress

Scaling to One Million Cores on AWS

At CadenceLIVE Europe last year, Ludwig Nordstrom of AWS presented Scaling to 1 Million…

Paul McLellan
• 4 min read
cadencellive , CadenceLive Europe , aws , Breakfast Bytes

The Chiplet Summit

Last week it was the Chiplet Design Summit in San Jose. Actually, the organizers…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
featured , chiplets , AMD , 3dhi , 3DIC , heterogeneous integration , chiplet summit

Sunday Brunch Video for 29th January 2023

https://youtu.be/BG-O26DNBpg Made at Steamers, Los Gatos (camera Carey) Monday:…

Paul McLellan
• less than a min read
sunday brunch

January 2023 Update: Automotive Security, Chiplets...and Roman Emperors!

Wow, it's already the last Friday in January, so time for one of my monthly update…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
security , Automotive , AMD , bathtub curve , reliability

HPSC: RISC-V in Space

NASA needs a new computer. Being NASA, of course, this has an acronym, HPSC. Unusually…

Paul McLellan
• 5 min read
risc-v , microchip , jpl , NASA , hpsc

Technology and the American Trucking Industry

I have kept an eye on trucking over the last few years. Trucks are not technically…

Paul McLellan
• 6 min read
Automotive , trucking , trucks

IEDM: TSMC N3 Details

As you know from previous blog posts, I attended IEDM in San Francisco in December…

Paul McLellan
• 6 min read
featured , n3e , 3nm , n3 , TSMC , finflex

Design Enablement of 2D/3D Thermal Analysis and 3-Die Stack

At CadenceLIVE Europe back in November, one of the presentations was by Mohamed Naeim…

Paul McLellan
• 4 min read
3DIC , imec , CadenceLive Europe , cadencelive , thermal

Sunday Brunch Video for 22nd January 2023

https://youtu.be/ARCzcdPvLZg Made at Castle Rock State Park (camera Carey) Previous…

Paul McLellan
• less than a min read
sunday brunch

ST's Experience with Cadence Cerebrus

At CadenceLIVE Europe back in Thanksgiving week, one of the presentations was by…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
cerebrus , CadenceLive Europe , cadencelive , stmicroelectronics

Malcolm Penn: “We Are Stoking Capacity Just When We Don’t Need It”

On Tuesday this week, Malcolm Penn of Future Horizons gave one of the three annual…

Paul McLellan
• 4 min read
future horizons , featured , malcolm penn
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