Breakfast Bytes Blogs

At 11:10am Korean time this morning, Cadence's Elias Fallon delivered one of the keynotes at ISOCC (International System On Chip Conference). It was titled EDA and Machine Learning: The Next Leap in Semiconductor Design and Productivity. He ...

Arm's Shawn Hung (based in Austin) and Cadence's Rod Metcalfe presented on doing 3D design at Arm DevSummit, in a presentation titled Implementing 3D Neoverse N1: 3D Design Merits Meet In-Depth Analysis. What they described was...

CadenceLIVE India gives out a best paper award on each track to the presentation that the attendees vote as the best. Over at The India Circuit Blog, Sangram Jena provides a table with all the winners . I took a look at three of the winners in three d...

Arm has a program with four teenagers known as Gen Arm 2Z Ambassadors. They appeared on a panel session at the recent Arm DevSummit. Since it was virtual, they never appeared on screen together. But as it happens, they were on stage with Simon S...

Sometimes, you attend an event and it feels like you are present at the start of a new era that will change some aspect of the technology industry. Of course, things don't change overnight. One event I remember from the last decade were hearing ...

https://youtu.be/-e-scl8tg8A Made in front of my TV Monday: Arm and NVIDIA: Simon Segars and Jensen Huang Tuesday: System VIP: Logistics for Cache-Coherent Multiprocessor Systems Wednesday: Electromagnetic Compliance: Anechoic Chamber ...

At the Arm DevSummit, there were several presentations on the first day about EDA on Graviton. Graviton is an Arm-architecture chip developed by AWS (in its Annapurna Labs group). There was an original version, now known as Graviton 1, a couple of ye...

EDA tools have a primary challenge: to be good at whatever it is they do. They have a second challenge, which is to get support from the rest of the ecosystem, such as synthesis libraries (yeah, I used to be at Ambit Design Systems). But signoff tool...

Yesterday, I reported on Paul Cunningham's announcement of a new product, System VIP, in my post System VIP: Logistics for Cache-Coherent Systems . A few minutes later Paul announced a second product, the Clarity 3D Transient Solver. This is the...

Today, at CadenceLIVE Europe, Paul Cunningham, the GM of the verification business unit, announced System VIP. This is another product that broadly falls under the heading of computational logistics. I think of it as logistics for cache-coherent syst...

What used to be face-to-face Arm TechCon has turned into a virtual conference under the name Arm DevSummit. In the unlikely event that you missed the news, NVIDIA announced on September 13 that it intends to acquire (most of) Arm for $32B from ...

https://youtu.be/0oRah8lCf4M Made in front of my TV Monday: Jasper User Group 2020 Preview Tuesday: Innovus Mixed Placer Wednesday: TSMC OIP: Rent's Rule and Fast SerDes IP Thursday: Bessemer Ventures: The Memos That Didn't Get Away Frid...

At the recent TSMC OIP forum, Yufeng Luo presented Optimized Digital Design, Implementation, and Signoff on TSMC N3. He should know all the details. After all, he's the VP of R&D for the Innovus Implementation System, which is at the heart of...

Who is the oldest venture capital company in the world? It is almost certainly Bessemer Venture Partners, who were created as the venture arm of Carnegie Steel. The Bessemer process for making steel was the first economical process for making steel f...

Way back in the 1960s, E. Rent, who was working at IBM at the time, noticed a connection between the number of pins P on integrated circuits being use and the number of gates G on the integrated circuits. It was a power law, where the numbe...

It has been a dream for a long time to have a fully automated mixed placer that does a good job. In fact all physical design systems have had the capability for a long time, but designers were reluctant to use them on simple designs. When there were ...

The biggest gathering of formal verification engineers in the world takes place in a few weeks — the annual Jasper User Group is coming up on October 21st and 22nd. It has been branded under CadenceCONNECT, specialized meetings that take place ...

https://youtu.be/VZRwCBiexXQ Made in front of my TV Monday: The CHIPS Alliance Tuesday: NXP Glows in Tensilica HiFi Wednesday: GTC 2020 Thursday: Breakfast Bytes Update: Learning & Support, Undersea Datacenter Friday: Breakfast Bytes Up...

This is one of my occasional posts where I update some posts that I covered earlier, but which don't justify an entire post of their own. However, I ended up with so much material that I split this post into two since it got so long. In yesterda...

This is one of my occasional posts where I update some posts that I covered earlier, but which don't justify an entire post of their own. However, I ended up with so much material that I split this post into two since it got so long. Support and ...

Recently, GLOBALFOUNDRIES held this year's technology conference GTC. Of course, it was held virtually. You probably already know that a couple of years ago, GF decided to abandon the race to single-digit nanometer processes. In particular, they ...

One trend that many people have remarked on, is that neural network inference is moving to edge devices. This means that instead of running on big multicore cloud servers with attached GPUs or FPGAs, the network has to run on something like your smar...

On September 17, there was a meeting of the CHIPS Alliance. It was online, of course. In three hours, there were ten presentations. CHIPS is actually an acronym, Common Hardware for Interfaces, Processors, and Systems. The presentations, and The CHIP...

https://youtu.be/EUDdGqdmTUU Made in "the Alps" Monday: Complete RF Solution: Think Outside the Chip Tuesday: The First Decade of RISC-V: A Worldwide Phenomenon Wednesday: The European Processor Initiative Thursday: Should the Government Ad...

Normally, in May, I'd have been off to Unterschleißheim, a suburb of Munich where historically we've held what used to be called CDNLive EMEA. We renamed this CadenceLIVE Europe and pushed it out from its original May dates to Octo...