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Sunday Brunch Video for 5th July 2020

By Paul McLellan | 5 Jul 2020

https://youtu.be/qimXaFAFh6w Made for July 4th (camera me) Monday: Yesterday Was Tau Day Tuesday: Alessandra Nardi Receives Marie Pistilli Award for Women in EDA Wednesday: Japanese Arm-Powered Supercomputer Takes the TOP500 Crown Thursday: July...

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July 4th: The Glorious Revolution

By Paul McLellan | 2 Jul 2020

The Fourth of July is coming up. Cadence is closed for a four-day weekend, so this is the last day before a break, and so it is time to talk about something off-topic. Well, not that off-topic since I'm going to talk about Independence Day and what t...

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Japanese Arm-Powered Supercomputer Takes the TOP500 Crown

By Paul McLellan | 1 Jul 2020

Twice a year, around the middle of the year (that would be now) and around the end of the year, the Top 500 List is published. This lists the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. In one sense, this is as much about bragging rights as anythi...

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fugaku | top500 | ARM | supercomputer
Alessandra Nardi Receives Marie Pistilli Award for Women in EDA

By Paul McLellan | 30 Jun 2020

Cadence's Alessandra Nardi, software engineering group director, is the 2020 recipient of the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Award, an annual honor that recognizes individuals who have significantly helped advance women in electron...

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automotive | DAC | functional safety | alessandra nardi | marie pistilli award
Yesterday Was Tau Day

By Paul McLellan | 29 Jun 2020

You probably know that 3/14 is Pi Day, since pi (π) starts 3.14 and so matches the date, at least the way it is written in the US but not in the rest of the world. Well, yesterday was Tau Day, 6/28. Tau (τ) is 2π and so is 6.28. Some mathem...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 28th June 2020

By Paul McLellan | 28 Jun 2020

https://youtu.be/va13w0mgAco Made "under the sea" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Make a DATE for the Alps Next Ski Season Tuesday: vManager: One Manager to Rule Them All Wednesday: Computational Digital Software Thursday: Under the Hood of Genu...

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Cornami and Trusted Data

By Paul McLellan | 26 Jun 2020

Recently, I wrote about Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE from now on) which I think is going to be something big that you will hear lots about in the future. Here's the reason I think it is going to be big. The people who care the most about sec...

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fhe | Wally Rhines | fully homomorphic encryption | cornami
Under the Hood of Genus

By Paul McLellan | 25 Jun 2020

From time to time people ask how EDA tools work under the hood. I think the question is more along the lines of "what is all that stuff in the front of my car?" more than "how does ignition advance work?" So here's what's ...

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Genus | featured | computational software | Synthesis | Placement
Computational Digital Software

By Paul McLellan | 24 Jun 2020

Cadence has been using the term "computational software" to unify many of the algorithms that underlie EDA tools. I think that the area where this is clearest is the digital full flow, which starts at synthesis, though physical design, and ...

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Genus | ml | Tempus | computational software | machine learning | Innovus | digital full flow
vManager: One Manager to Rule Them All

By Paul McLellan | 23 Jun 2020

Here's a high-level view of verification: If everyone properly plans their verification project, why do quality problems and schedule slips persist? It really comes down to the adage “Begin with the end in mind.” A good plan contains...

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featured | formal | Protium | Palladium | xcelium | JasperGold | simulation | vManager
Make a DATE for the Alps Next Ski Season

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jun 2020

It's the Summer Solstice. To be precise, that was on Saturday, the longest day of the year, but Breakfast Bytes doesn't appear at weekends. Surprisingly, the earliest sunrise of the year was on June 13, a week ago. And the latest su...

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DATE | Grenoble | Europe | design and test europe | date21
Sunday Brunch Video for 21st June 2020

By Paul McLellan | 21 Jun 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in "cherry blossoms" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: IEEE 1838: Taking Test into the Third Dimension Tuesday: Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI Wednesday: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Thursday: On Writi...

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On Writing

By Paul McLellan | 18 Jun 2020

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, which commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. It is a Cadence holiday. Breakfast Bytes will not appear. Today's off-topic post is about how I became a writer. The short answer is "by accident" si...

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writing | strunk & white | orwell | gowers | stephen king
Fully Homomorphic Encryption

By Paul McLellan | 17 Jun 2020

Do you know what Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is? When I first heard about it a few years ago, I thought it was something of minor academic interest, like those schemes for giving keys to a group where any 3 of them can decrypt the message but ...

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Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI

By Paul McLellan | 16 Jun 2020

Today's post is somewhat off-topic, despite having AI in the title. Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI is the name of an exhibition at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I went to see it before we got locked...

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IEEE 1838: Taking Test into the Third Dimension

By Paul McLellan | 15 Jun 2020

I've written quite a bit recently about advanced packaging and More than Moore technologies for building systems. For example, see my posts: John Park's Webinar on Chiplets Known Good Die System in Package, Why Now? System in Package, Why No...

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ieee 1838 | SiP | chiplets | advanced packaging | 3DIC | Test
Sunday Brunch Video for 14th June 2020

By Paul McLellan | 14 Jun 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in Hakone Japanese Garden, Saratoga (camera Carey Guo) Monday: ETS2020: Functional Safety Tuesday: Take a Cadence Masterclass and Get a Badge Wednesday: Sophie Wilson: The 2020 Wheeler Lecture (The 6502 to Multicore) T...

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Custom Instructions in Tensilica: Wearing a TIE Makes You Smarter

By Paul McLellan | 12 Jun 2020

Tensilica has a number of different product families targeted at different applications from audio, via video, to deep learning. I've written posts about all of these during the last year. The most recent in each domain were: Audio: HiFi D...

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Sophie Wilson: The 2020 Wheeler Lecture (Multicore to Today)

By Paul McLellan | 11 Jun 2020

This is the second post continuing from yesterday's post Sophie Wilson: The 2020 Wheeler Lecture (The 6502 to Multicore) covering Sophie Wilson's Wheeler Lecture from Cambridge in the middle of May. Here is the linkfest of the most rece...

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processor | moore's law | amdahl's law | ARM | microprocessor | ARM1
Sophie Wilson: The 2020 Wheeler Lecture (The 6502 to Multicore)

By Paul McLellan | 10 Jun 2020

Since I was an undergraduate studying computer science at what was then called the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, I am on their mailing list. Each year, I get invited to the Wheeler Lecture. But it is normally held onsite at the computer science depa...

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wheeler | Cambridge | moore's law | amdahl's law | sophie wilson | ARM | ARM1
Take a Cadence Masterclass and Get a Badge

By Paul McLellan | 9 Jun 2020

Many of us are locked down, working from home, or at the very least not going to go and sit in a lecture room all day. Not least because that option is probably not available. But one thing you read about almost everywhere you look is that we should ...

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digital badge | blended training | training
ETS2020: Functional Safety

By Paul McLellan | 8 Jun 2020

One of the keynotes for the European Test Symposium 2020 (ETS2020) was by Cadence's Alessandra Nardi. As you might guess from her name, she's Italian. But I think that's about as European as her presentation got since, instead of coming from Tallinn ...

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automotive | functional safety | ets2020 | Test | european test conference | fusa
Sunday Brunch Video for 7th June 2020

By Paul McLellan | 7 Jun 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: The Five Waves: AI, 5G, Cars, Clouds, IoT Tuesday: TSMC: N7, N6, N5 Wednesday: Artificial Intelligence...and Artificial Performance Thursday: Four More Waves: 5G, Cars, Clouds, IoT F...

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Modeling with Water

By Paul McLellan | 5 Jun 2020

A couple of years ago I wrote a post using the famous quote by statistician George Box: All Models Are Wrong; Some Are Useful . In that post, I discussed paper and plastic airplanes, but mostly I talked about modeling in computers, and especially wha...

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Four More Waves: 5G, Cars, Clouds, IoT

By Paul McLellan | 4 Jun 2020

Earlier in the week, I did a sort of bait and switch, introducing the five waves and then talking about just one of them. In that post, The Five Waves: AI, 5G, Cars, Clouds, IoT , I just covered the first wave of AI and machine learning. To...

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5G | automotive | featured | IoT | industrial | cloud | cadence cloud

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