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September Update: Ransomware, Apple, Zero Trust, and More

By Paul McLellan | 24 Sep 2021

It's only September 24, but this is the last Friday of the month so it's time for my monthly update. This month: ransomware, Apple's new A15 chip, the US government and zero trust, plus more Designed with Cadence videos. Ransomware Ransom...

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Apple | rct | zero trust | designed with cadence | update | ransomeware
Why You Should Attend CadenceLIVE Europe in October

By Paul McLellan | 23 Sep 2021

CadenceLIVE Europe is on October 19 and will be a digital event. Let me give you a preview of what is coming up and some reasons to attend. As usual, there are keynotes, technical updates, presentations mainly by customers, an expo...and even giveawa...

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Announcing Helium, Hybrid and Virtual Platforms with Multiple Gears

By Paul McLellan | 22 Sep 2021

This morning Cadence announced the release of the Helium Virtual and Hybrid Studio. This is a next-generation engine for hardware/software co-verification and debug. The full virtual model provides the highest performance for software development and...

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debug | virtual platform | hardware/software | helium
At a Digital Crossroads

By Paul McLellan | 21 Sep 2021

Politico is not usually a place I go for material for this blog, but recently it had a Politico Tech Summit called At a Digital Crossroads. One session was sponsored by Micron (I think that's how it works) and featured the chairwom...

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Micron | digital divide | fcc
Ten Lessons from Three Generations of Google TPUs

By Paul McLellan | 20 Sep 2021

In my post about the big trends from this year's HOT CHIPS, I mentioned a paper from ISCA written by a group of people from Google. The paper is not actually titled exactly as in the title to this blog post, it is actually Ten Lessons From Three ...

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tpu | data center | google
Sunday Brunch Video for 19th September 2021

By Paul McLellan | 19 Sep 2021

https://youtu.be/LuFCfy3aNbI Made with Lumen5 by me Monday: On-Device Artificial Intelligence the Tensilica Way Tuesday: How to Build a Data Center: It's All About the SerDes...and Thermal Wednesday: Pegasus Flies into the GF Technology Summ...

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HOT CHIPS: The Big Trends

By Paul McLellan | 17 Sep 2021

Two big trends that are no surprise, they were big at HOT CHIPS last year and for other events like the Linley Processor Conferences, are every processor is an AI processor, and increasingly most processors are using some form of advanced packaging. ...

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Memory | deep learning | advanced packaging | hot chips | thermal | AI
HOT CHIPS: Two Big Beasts

By Paul McLellan | 16 Sep 2021

Today, I'm covering two of the biggest chips presented at the recent HOT CHIPS. Ponte Vecchio, Intel's enormous graphics chip intended to be used in Argonne National Laboratories' supercomputer Aurora. And the latest developments from Cer...

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Pegasus Flies into the GF Technology Summit

By Paul McLellan | 15 Sep 2021

Today is the GF Technology Summit, what used to be called GTC in previous years. GF is, of course, GlobalFoundries. We also announced this morning that the Pegasus Verification System has been certified by GF on its 12LP, 12LP+, and 22FDX processes. ...

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pegasus | gf | GlobalFoundries
How to Build a Data Center: It's All About the SerDes...and Thermal

By Paul McLellan | 14 Sep 2021

Okay, you are probably not going to have to build a data center. But you might well be involved in designing chips that go in data centers. Or looking at IP for data centers. Or worrying about some aspect of design tools for advanced nodes, much of w...

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Ethernet | PCIe | hyperscale | SerDes | datacenter
On-Device Artificial Intelligence the Tensilica Way

By Paul McLellan | 13 Sep 2021

This morning, at a workshop at the AI Hardware Summit, Cadence is laying out details of its AI strategy and a new way that the product line of Tensilica processors will be structured going forward. On Wednesday morning, Sanjive Agarwal...

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artificial intelligence | deep learning | inference | Tensilica | neural networks
Sunday Brunch Video for 12th September 2021

By Paul McLellan | 12 Sep 2021

https://youtu.be/7gCLOVo1XQQ Made at Tesla Factory, Fremont (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: Labor Day Tuesday: HOT CHIPS: The Next-Generation of General-Purpose Compute Wednesday: NOT CHIPS: Tesla's Project Dojo Thursday: New Cerebrus...

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Cadence in Brazil

By Paul McLellan | 10 Sep 2021

How much do you know about Brazil? Probably, like me, not that much. And most of that has to do with football. Or Caipirinhas. One thing that I know that a lot of people apparently do not is that the local language is not Spanish but Portuguese. In f...

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Cadence Academic Network | belo horizonte | sbmicro | cadence brazil | brazil
New Cerebrus Webinar This Month

By Paul McLellan | 9 Sep 2021

Cerebrus is Cadence's new machine learning-enabled digital design environment. When we announced the product in July, I covered it in my post Cerebrus: The Future of Intelligent Chip Design . Coming up on September 16 at 10:00am PDT is a new webin...

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NOT CHIPS: Tesla's Project Dojo

By Paul McLellan | 8 Sep 2021

Nope, NOT CHIPS is not a misprint. Tesla didn't present at HOT CHIPS. But they did have an AI Day just a couple of days later. What their team presented was pretty mind-blowing. There was a lot of stuff about self-driving software, training, and ...

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HOT CHIPS: The Next-Generation of General-Purpose Compute

By Paul McLellan | 7 Sep 2021

At the recent HOT CHIPS, the first day opened with the chips that you first think of when you hear the word processor. These are the next generation of chips from the likes of Intel, AMD, and IBM. There were lots of other chips too, such as Arm's Neo...

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Intel | AMD | ponte vecchio | IBM | hot chips
Offtopic: Typography

By Paul McLellan | 2 Sep 2021

When people ask me how I made the transition to being a writer, I can only say "it just happened" since I never planned it. I didn't have a job, it was the 2008 downturn, so I started writing a daily blog called EDAgraffiti to give myse...

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offtopic | printing
AI Hardware Summit 2021 Preview

By Paul McLellan | 1 Sep 2021

The AI Hardware Summit is coming up on September 13-16. It will take place in-person at the Computer History Museum. The website for the event says that most presentations will be given in person, but they will all also be streamed for virtual attend...

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artificial intelligence | Tensilica | ai hardware summit
HOT CHIPS: A Display in Your Contact Lens

By Paul McLellan | 31 Aug 2021

Is augmented reality (AR) going to be the next big thing? Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, thinks it will pervade our entire lives. But it certainly won't be until we don't have to wear big, heavy, clunky headsets. I was impressed at CES a couple of y...

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contact lens | mojo | alternative reality
CadenceLIVE India 2021: Ten Reasons to Attend

By Paul McLellan | 30 Aug 2021

On September 7 and 8, it is CadenceLIVE India. It will be a digital event. Let me give you a preview of what is coming up and some reasons to attend. As usual, there are keynotes, technical updates, presentations mainly by customers, an expo...and ev...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 29th August 2021

By Paul McLellan | 29 Aug 2021

https://youtu.be/kC1SNcAmVWg Made in Levi's Stadium (camera Gary Bengier) Monday: CadenceLIVE: Xilinx's Thunder-Bus Tuesday: HOT CHIPS: Esperanto's Dave Ditzel and 1000 Minions Wednesday: "I'm Doing an Operati...

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August Update: Stevies, Sales, Mars, Hacking Hotels, and More

By Paul McLellan | 27 Aug 2021

Can you believe that it's the last Friday in August already? So, time for another monthly update where I cover recent news relating to earlier posts and also smaller stories that don't justify a whole post on their own. This month, this year&...

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van gogh | SIA | tesla | stevies | update | Mars
A History of Timing Signoff

By Paul McLellan | 26 Aug 2021

Today, when all timing signoff is done using static timing analysis with a tool such as the Tempus Timing Signoff Solution, you have to be a certain age to remember that static timing wasn't always around. In fact, at VLSI Technology we developed...

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Tempus | STA | static timing | gate level simulation
"I'm Doing an Operating System, Just a Hobby, Won't Be Big and Professional"

By Paul McLellan | 25 Aug 2021

30 years ago today, August 25, 1991, an unknown Finnish student sent out what has become a famously low-key email that had a dramatic effect on technology in general, especially data centers and supercomputers. It has to be one of the most important ...

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git | linus torvalds | linux
HOT CHIPS: Esperanto's Dave Ditzel and 1000 Minions

By Paul McLellan | 24 Aug 2021

At HOT CHIPS this morning, Dave Ditzel of Esperanto is presenting their latest chip in a talk titled "Accelerating ML Recommendation with over a Thousand RISC-V/Tensor Processors on Esperanto’s ET-SoC-1 Chip" I actually had a pre-bri...

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