Breakfast Bytes Blogs

I have written before about standards in general (including one that is 2000 years old) in my post Why Do Layout Designers Say "Stream Out"? and the new cell-phone vocoder standard in Cadence and Standards...and A New Codec for Yo...

At the recent TSMC 2021 Online Technology Symposium, the keynote to open the show was delivered by Dr C. C. Wei, TSMC's CEO. In addition to C.C. himself, there were guest appearances by Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, by Cristiano Amon, CEO-in-waiting ...

The Cryptographers' Panel was moderated by RSA's Zulfikar Ramzan, and featured Ron Rivest (the R of RSA), Adi Shamir (the S of RSA), Ross Anderson (professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University—as it...

https://youtu.be/T9V_61_3ZVA Made in San Francisco Botanical Garden (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Hardware Hacking Party Tricks Tuesday: TSMC's 3DFabric Wednesday: Allegro X, the Design Platform for the Next Generation of Intelligent System Des...

According to Steven Hawking, in his book A Brief History of Time, Bertrand Russell once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of st...

At the recent RSAC, there was a great presentation by Waylon Grange on hacking the embedded software in his neighbor's solar power controller. He was stuck at home during lockdown, and his neighbor had solar panels installed. He emphasized that t...

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I already wrote about TSMC's advanced-node roadmap in my post TSMC: Advanced Technology for Smartphone and HPC Platforms where Yujun Li presented the details of N7, N6, N5, N4, and N3, and other HPC-focused technology. In a sense, she was g...

Toward the end of April, Black Hat ran a webinar Hacking Party Tricks: Techniques for Exploring, Manipulating, and Exploiting Embedded Systems. It was presented by Joe Grand (aka Kingpin) who is founder and hardware hacker at Grand Idea Studio. The c...

https://youtu.be/sqEzhpQZmbo Made on my dining table (camera me) Monday: Memorial Day Tuesday: Countdown to TSMC Technology Symposium: 7nm, 5nm, 3nm, June 1 Wednesday: CEO Outlook: "Let's Take Advantage of Our Industry Being in the Spot...

This year's Breakfast Bytes annual is out. It is titled A Year of Breakfasts 2021: Systems, 3D Packaging, Cloud, RF, Memory, Deep Learning…and Eggs. So how do you get one? If you attend CadenceLIVE Americas, and get enough p...

Yujun Li, TSMC's director of business development for high-performance computing (HPC) which also includes mobile, presented Advanced Technology for Smartphone and HPC Platforms. Since that includes the most advanced nodes of N3 (3nm), this is pr...

The Electronic System Design Alliance CEO Outlook took place on May 16. Bob Smith, EDSA Executive Director, opened the show with apologies from Aart de Geus, who was unable to attend since Synopsys' earnings call was the following day. That left ...

Today it is the TSMC 2021 Online North America Technology Symposium (tomorrow for China, Europe, Taiwan). Usually, I do a preview post about what is coming up and what is on the agenda, but last week was just too crowded with Cadence announcements (s...

Today is the last blogging day before Memorial Day on Monday, so as is now traditional, I go off-topic. Today, high points of my life. As in high points in the world that I have been to. The highest point in the UK is Ben Nevis in Scotland, at 4,413&...

Once again this year, CadenceLIVE Americas is coming up soon and it will be completely virtual. As I do each year, let me give you some good reasons to attend. We'd love to give you food and drink but you know why that is not going to happen. We stil...

Cadence announced Clarity 3D Solver Cloud as part of Cadence Hybrid Cloud, providing cloud-based system analysis as the click of a button.

Today, Arm announced its new lineup of processors for mobile. These are the first Arm v9 instruction set (ISA) CPUs, new Mali GPUs, and new system interconnect. Cadence announced rapid adoption kits for the premium platform, which consists of th...

Well, that's a lot of tech gobbledegook in the title of this post. Here's what it means. This morning Cadence announced that its IP interfaces for low-power PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 and for 112G long reach (112G-LR) are available on TSMC's ...

In the recent Linley Spring Processor Conference, there were many processors for various kinds of AI, deep learning, and inference. As I said in my overview post Linley: Driving AI from the Cloud to the Edge , I don't think that all these products...

Today, Cadence announced the Spectre FX Simulator, a next-generation FastSPICE circuit simulator with up to 3X the performance of anything else in the market (at the same accuracy or better). It solves large-scale verification simulation ch...

The RSA Conference on cybersecurity took place in the middle of May. This year, the 30th RSAC, the theme was Resilience. It is a good choice since the start of 2021 has been terrible for security with both the SolarWinds supply chain attack, and the ...

Kids in orphanages have a hard life. You only have to read Oliver Twist to get some idea of that. Or watch the recent hit Netflix drama Queen's Gambit. The best way to secure a future is to get to university. It sure beats becoming a pickpoc...

This is another one of my update posts, following up on topics I covered in earlier Breakfast Bytes posts but where the new material is not enough to justify an entire new post by itself CadenceLIVE India CadenceLIVE India, originally scheduled for ...

https://youtu.be/_wup2MSTVks Made on Communication Hill, San Jose (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Intel eASIC: Linley and DARPA Tuesday: Please Excuse the Mesh: CFD and Pointwise Wednesday: Linley: Driving AI from the Cloud to the Edge Thursday: ESD ...