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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell

By Paul McLellan | 23 Jul 2019

When I was a postgraduate at Edinburgh University, my office was in the James Clerk Maxwell Building, the JCMB. Maxwell was most famous for Maxwell's Equations, which give the rules for how electrical and magnetic forces interact, and how electro...

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Passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jul 2019

I recently came across an interesting piece written by Microsoft's Alex Weinert, Your Pa$$word doesn't matter . He is part of Microsoft's Security and Protection Team. As such he is involved in keeping Microsoft's Azure Cloud solu...

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security | passwords | two factor authentication
Sunday Brunch Video for 21st July 2019

By Paul McLellan | 21 Jul 2019

https://youtu.be/JHWXXezFMU8 Made at Krakow, Poland (camera Gary Bengier) Monday: Will American Scooters Follow Chinese Bikes? Tuesday: GLOBALFOUNDRIES After the Pivot Wednesday: Intelligent System Design for Automobiles of the Future Thursday: ...

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The First Computer on the Moon

By Paul McLellan | 19 Jul 2019

I am sure you can't fail to have noticed that tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. It has been everywhere for the last few weeks. I was a teenager. I remember watching the landing. In Britain, in the basement at my p...

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Orchestras, Degrees, and Choice

By Paul McLellan | 18 Jul 2019

Did you read about how orchestras started to do blind auditions where the players were behind a curtain? And how the result was lots more women hired into orchestras once the biased hiring committees couldn’t act on their prejudices…wome...

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STEM | gender
Intelligent System Design for Automobiles of the Future

By Paul McLellan | 17 Jul 2019

There's a lot going on in the automotive market. The three big things are electric traction, autonomous driving, and shared mobility. Cadence is holding their second annual Automotive Design Summit on July 30 in San Jose, where all aspects of aut...

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automotive | ADAS
GLOBALFOUNDRIES After the Pivot

By Paul McLellan | 16 Jul 2019

At SEMICON West I sat down with Gary Patton, CTO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, to get an update on what is going on since the “pivot”. The Pivot The pivot was the decision last year to pull back from 7nm and EUV development and focus their process ...

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globalfound | semicon | 22fdx | 12fdx | FD-SOI
Will American Scooters Follow Chinese Bikes?

By Paul McLellan | 15 Jul 2019

I spent the July 4 weekend in San Diego. My public service announcement is that if you go to San Diego, the first thing you should do is buy a week pass to all the museums in Balboa Park, and add on a discount admission to the zoo if you plan to...

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automotive | scooter | app | smarphone | bike
Sunday Brunch Video for 14th July 2019

By Paul McLellan | 14 Jul 2019

https://youtu.be/HO3cViPU6Mw Made at Slovensky Raj, Slovakia (camera Gary Bengier) Monday: Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators Tuesday: Carry: Babbage's Engines Wednesday: Carry: Electronics Thursday: NXP: Can Silicon Valley Rea...

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The Mercedes Benz Museum and the Invention of the Automobile

By Paul McLellan | 12 Jul 2019

Recently, I was in Stuggart, Germany. This is the home to the headquarters of both Daimler-Benz (or Daimler-Chrysler as it now is) and also Porsche. Both companies have fascinating museums. The thing that makes them especially interesting is that so ...

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NXP: Can Silicon Valley Really Crack the Automakers' Code?

By Paul McLellan | 11 Jul 2019

The second panel at the recent NXPConnect was about Silicon Valley versus traditional carmakers (OEMs in car industry terminology). The first panel I covered recently in NXP: Self-Driving Cars: What's the Payoff for Carmakers? Can Silicon Va...

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Carry: Electronics

By Paul McLellan | 10 Jul 2019

The last two days I have written about carry in mechanical calculating devices. See my posts Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators and Carry: Babbage's Engines . We have similar problems in designing electronics. Most microprocesso...

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carry | adder
Carry: Babbage's Engines

By Paul McLellan | 9 Jul 2019

Yesterday's post Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators talked about how carrying was done in the mechanical and electromechanical calculators of my youth. The most famous mechanical calculators ever designed have to be Charles Ba...

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Carry: From Logarithms to Mechanical Calculators

By Paul McLellan | 8 Jul 2019

I hope you had a great July 4th long weekend if you are in the US...and if you were elsewhere I hope you at least had a good short weekend. Today is the first of three posts on "carry", in the sense you first learned in primary school, whe...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 7th July 2019

By Paul McLellan | 7 Jul 2019

https://youtu.be/re7U6Rg0MHA Made at Cadence charge station (camera Sean) Monday: NXP: Self-Driving Cars: What's the Payoff for Carmakers? Tuesday: It's Beyond HOT at ES Design West Next Week Wednesday: Off-topic: Geography Thursda...

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Off-topic: Geography

By Paul McLellan | 3 Jul 2019

It's the day before a holiday so Breakfast Bytes goes completely off-topic as usual. Last time, the Friday before Memorial Day, we went with figures of speech. This time, let's go with maps and geography. Let's see how good your sense of ...

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It's Beyond HOT at ES Design West Next Week

By Paul McLellan | 2 Jul 2019

There are two famous parties in the EDA world. The Denali Party by Cadence, of course. I'm afraid you missed that one for this year—it is always on the Tuesday of DAC. The second one is the HOT Party organized by Jim Hogan's Heart of Techn...

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semicon west | semi | HOT | hot party | es design west
NXP: Self-Driving Cars: What's the Payoff for Carmakers?

By Paul McLellan | 1 Jul 2019

I recently attended NXP's Silicon Valley event called NXPConnect. Kurt Sievers, the President of NXP, opened the show by pointing out it was their largest show ever, with over 1500 people attending, over 100 hours of technology lessons, and over ...

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automotive | autonomous driving | ADAS
Sunday Brunch Video for 30th June 2019

By Paul McLellan | 30 Jun 2019

https://youtu.be/WhHvvmwE9Tw Made at Tsukuda Fruit Stand opposite building 9 (camera Sean) Monday: Intel and PSS...and Simics, a Blast from My Past Tuesday: 12% Is Not Enough: Women in Engineering Wednesday: DAC: Opening Lunchboxes and Clos...

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Aerospace: the View from Paris

By Paul McLellan | 28 Jun 2019

I was recently at the Paris Air Show. Despite it sounding like the sort of event where you might go and watch the Blue Angels perform, it is actually the biggest aerospace and defense show in the world, and takes place at the relatively small airport...

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DAC: Digital Lunch Does Not Mean Finger Food

By Paul McLellan | 27 Jun 2019

The Cadence lunch on Tuesday was the turn of digital with the panel set to consider Machine Learning and Its Impact on the Digital Design Engineer. The panel was moderated by Professor Andrew Kahng of UC San Diego. The panelists were: Vishal Sarin, ...

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digital design | artificial intelligence | ml | deep learning | dl | machine learning | AI
DAC: Opening Lunchboxes and Closing Mixed-Signal Verification

By Paul McLellan | 26 Jun 2019

The analog/mixed-signal lunch at DAC got moved to Monday this year, since we had made the Spectre X Simulator announcement that morning. For details on that, see my post Spectre X: Same Accuracy, New Speed . The topic this year was Closing Analog...

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DAC | analog | mixed signal | 56dac | spectre x
12% Is Not Enough: Women in Engineering

By Paul McLellan | 25 Jun 2019

At CDNLive EMEA, there was a Women's track and the first presentation was by Elizabeth Donnelly, the CEO of the Women's Engineering Society (of the UK), titled 12% Is Not Enough, Changing Industry to Support Women in Engineering. I should emp...

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women's engineering society | STEM | CDNLive | CDNLive EMEA
Intel and PSS...and Simics, a Blast from My Past

By Paul McLellan | 24 Jun 2019

One of the newest standards in verification is PSS, the Portable Stimulus Standard. Whereas UVM is focused on verification of blocks and chips, PSS addresses how to do verification at the system level, where there are multiple processors, with multip...

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Intel | DAC | Perspec | pss | portable stimulus standard
Sunday Brunch Video for 23rd June 2019

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jun 2019

https://youtu.be/6GUoDQkSoLY Made at Paris Air Show (camera Simon Fielding) Monday: Designing a Wi-Fi HaLow Baseband in Less than Six Months Tuesday: DAC: The View from Wall Street Wednesday: Assessing Bias in Computer Vision Systems Thursday: W...

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