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From Castles and Moats to Zero-Trust Networking

By Paul McLellan | 6 Apr 2020

The way that we handle enterprise security has changed dramatically. In the days of desktop computers and no internet, we divided the world into two: the castle, and outside, with a moat dividing the two. The moat and its associated drawbridge was t...

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security | zero trust networking | single sign-on
Sunday Brunch Video for 5th April 2020

By Paul McLellan | 5 Apr 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in my living room (camera Carey Guo) Monday: RSA: Emerging Threats, Ransomware, and IoT Tuesday: Linley Spring Processor Conference—In Your Own Living Room Wednesday: The Integrand Story Thursday: Getting to Hyperscal...

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Getting to Hyperscale Data Centers: PCs to Clouds

By Paul McLellan | 3 Apr 2020

This post is a continuation of yesterday's post, Getting to Hyperscale Data Centers: Mainframes to Minicomputers . It continues the story from minicomputers to PCs, and then to today's environment of hyperscale data centers for "big iron...

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PC | server | cloud | cadence cloud
Getting to Hyperscale Data Centers: Mainframes to Minicomputers

By Paul McLellan | 2 Apr 2020

Over the years, the way computing has been delivered has gone through a number of cycles. Like most things in life, this is mostly driven by underlying economics that changes over time: what is the best way to deliver everyone the computer resources...

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minicomputer | mainframe | IBM
The Integrand Story

By Paul McLellan | 1 Apr 2020

Recently, Cadence acquired Integrand Software. I wrote a post about it, Designing Radios: Integrand , a few days later. As I said there: I was actually on the list of "need-to-know" employees on the acquisition, and so I went to the Integr...

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RF | integrand | radio
Linley Spring Processor Conference—In Your Own Living Room

By Paul McLellan | 31 Mar 2020

The annual Linley Spring Processor Conference is coming up next week. It was planned to be in the Santa Clara Hyatt as always, spread over two full days. Well, that's obviously not happening. Instead, the event is going virtual and is spread over fo...

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deep learning | linley processor conference | linley group | neural networks | AI
RSA: Emerging Threats, Ransomware, and IoT

By Paul McLellan | 30 Mar 2020

I attended the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco. I wrote a post about some of the opening sessions, and the closing session, in RSA 2020: From Sulu to Penn & Teller . The Monday of the conference had some special sessions. The one I attended...

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security | ransomware | rsa conference | rsa | IoT
The Mythical Man-Month

By Paul McLellan | 27 Mar 2020

This is a continuation of yesterday's post Fred Brooks "It Is a Humbling Experience to Make a Multi-Million Dollar Mistake" about Fred Brooks' experience developing the IBM System 360. Today I'll talk about the book he wro...

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Fred Brooks: "It Is a Humbling Experience to Make a Multi-Million Dollar Mistake"

By Paul McLellan | 26 Mar 2020

Cadence's Intelligent System Design strategy is about designing the systems of today and tomorrow. But it is instructive to learn lessons from people who built the systems of yesterday. One of the most remarkable systems ever built was IBM's System/...

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fred brooks | frederick brooks | mythical man month | os/360
RSA 2020: The Cryptographers' Panel

By Paul McLellan | 25 Mar 2020

One of the big draws on the first day of the RSA Conference is always "The Cryptographers' Panel". The people on the panel vary. This year the panelists were: Whitfield Diffie of Cryptomathic, one of the inventors (with Martin Helman)...

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2020 Is the Year of DDR5

By Paul McLellan | 24 Mar 2020

I talked recently to Marc Greenberg, one of Cadence's experts on the memory market. Despite the fact that the JEDEC DDR5 standard is still under development, Marc says that: 2020 will be the year of DDR5. He is excited about it since a new DRA...

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Turing Award: Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan

By Paul McLellan | 23 Mar 2020

Last week, the ACM announced this year's Turing Award would go to Pat Hanrahan and Ed Catmull for their work on computer graphics. The Turing Award is often colloquially regarded as the "Nobel Prize in Computer Science." It also c...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 22nd March 2020

By Paul McLellan | 22 Mar 2020

https://youtu.be/b7ixzahr85s Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Another Year of CadenceLIVE—with Updated Schedule Tuesday: Digital Full Flow for 5/7nm Wednesday: How Intel Manufactures Chips Thursday: RSA 2020: From Sulu to Penn &amp...

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Netflix and C...adence

By Paul McLellan | 20 Mar 2020

Earlier in the week, I wrote about a couple of videos from Intel, about semiconductor manufacturing and the Intel Museum. But with the ongoing rebranding at Cadence, we have a few videos of our own. So when you're bored with your selection on Ne...

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sunday brunch | video | intelligent system design
RSA 2020: From Sulu to Penn & Teller

By Paul McLellan | 19 Mar 2020

I attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco recently. I guess that is going to turn out to be the last conference that I attend for some time. All the other events in my plans have either been postponed or canceled. RSA is the name of a security ...

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How Intel Manufactures Chips

By Paul McLellan | 18 Mar 2020

I happened to be looking for something on YouTube recently when I came across this video on Intel's YouTube channel. It's a bit cutesy at the beginning ("Hi, I'm Chip"), but in five minutes it gives a pretty good idea of how ch...

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Digital Full Flow for 5/7nm

By Paul McLellan | 17 Mar 2020

One constant in the semiconductor and EDA industries is, of course, Moore's Law. Another is the continual need for improved accuracy and performance. Accuracy is needed to take account of the effects that we used to be able to ignore. Performan...

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Genus | P&R | Tempus | Voltus | Innovus | digital full flow | Synthesis | full flow
Another Year of CadenceLIVE—with Updated Schedule

By Paul McLellan | 16 Mar 2020

It's not strictly true that it is another year of CadenceLIVE since we called the event CDNLive in the past. But it's time for my annual preview of the season of CadenceLIVE events around the world. It is primarily a conference for users of Cadence ...

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Another Year, Another Book of Breakfast Bytes

By Paul McLellan | 13 Mar 2020

There is a new edition of A Year of Breakfasts. How do you get a copy? You can get a free copy by attending any CadenceLIVE event this year. The picture below is a group of happy recipients of signed copies of last year's book when I was at CDN...

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Breakfast Nibbles: Predictions for 2020...Plus How Did I Do in 2019?

By Paul McLellan | 12 Mar 2020

Last year in my post Breakfast Nibbles: Predictions for 2019 , I made various predictions for the year. Let's see how well I did. The predictions were also republished as the last chapter of last year's A Year of Breakfasts. 2019 Predictions ...

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5G | automotive | predictions | deep learning | cloud | EUV | nibbles
Exponential Growth

By Paul McLellan | 11 Mar 2020

In the semiconductor industry, we've been dealing with the exponential growth associated with Moore's Law for over 50 years. Even so, I don't think that gives us an intuitive understanding of exponential growth. Nobody seems to have a feeling about ...

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exponential | rule of 70 | moore's law
The Future's So Bright You've Gotta Wear Shades

By Paul McLellan | 10 Mar 2020

The Cadence website looks different, doesn't it? We are obviously in the middle of a re-branding. This re-branding is driven by two things. One is just that it is good to refresh the look of the company from time to time so that it doesn't get dated....

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computational software | website | intelligent system design | branding
International Women's Day and Mentoring Women at Cadence

By Paul McLellan | 8 Mar 2020

March 8 is International Women's Day, this year falling on a Sunday. When you read this, it will probably be Monday (or later). Normally I don't post on Sundays, but this time I'm making an exception to get the date right. You might assume that Inter...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 8th March 2020

By Paul McLellan | 8 Mar 2020

https://youtu.be/oAtYdiwqPIw Made in front of my TV (camera Carey Guo) Monday: FCC Moves to Clear C-Band for 5G Tuesday: From Bootstrapped Startup to Profitability—with Lunch Wednesday: RSAC: Motherhood and Apple Pie...and Breaking into a Priso...

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Razor Blades, Banking, and Antitrust

By Paul McLellan | 5 Mar 2020

One person whose opinions I value is Ben Thompson of Stratechery. He produces a daily newsletter from his lair in Taiwan but once a week it is free for anyone to read (I don't have a subscription so I only see the free ones). Also, roughly weekl...

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ftc | stratechery | antitrust

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