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DesignCon: The Integrity Show

By Paul McLellan | 22 Jan 2019

It's the end of January and that means DesignCon. It is January 29th to 31st in the Santa Clara Convention Center. Increasingly, the design of high-end PCBs is all about integrity: signal integrity, power integrity, EM integrity, thermal integrit...

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PCB | DesignCon | power integrity | silicon photonics | signal integrity | photonics | Sigrity
Sunday Brunch Video for 20th January 2019

By Paul McLellan | 20 Jan 2019

https://youtu.be/Bs5A09med6Q Made at the Cadence campus in the rain (camera Sean) Monday: Tensilica at CES Tuesday: AMD Keynote at CES Wednesday: AlphaZero: Four Hours to World Class from a Standing Start Thursday: IEDM: EUV, the Road to HV...

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alphazero | CES | AMD | Tensilica | EUV | IEDM
MLK Off-topic: The Lady with the Polar Chart

By Paul McLellan | 18 Jan 2019

It's Martin Luther King day on Monday, and Cadence is off. I think that this is the first time I have ever got it as a holiday, rather than moving it to somewhere like July 3rd. Breakfast Bytes will not appear on Monday. So, as is traditional, th...

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offtopic | florence nightingale | statistics
IEDM: EUV, the Road to HVM and Beyond

By Paul McLellan | 17 Jan 2019

At IEDM in December, the Sunday preceding the conference proper consists of two short courses, traditionally one logic-related and one memory-related. I always attend the logic one, since that is the most relevant to EDA and the broad semiconductor i...

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asml | EUV | IEDM
AlphaZero: Four Hours to World Class from a Standing Start

By Paul McLellan | 16 Jan 2019

Last year I wrote about AlphaZero in my post Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero . A quick recap to jog your memory, or read that earlier post for more detail. Deep Blue was the program developed by IBM that defeated Gary Kasparov at chess in 1997, at t...

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deep learning | alphazero | go | AI | stockfish | chess
AMD Keynote at CES

By Paul McLellan | 15 Jan 2019

As I said in my post about CES last week (see my post Consumer Electronics: 5G, AI, and Air Taxis ), I'm not sure if can read anything into it but the "semiconductor" keynote was given by AMD and not, as historically been the case, Intel...

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Lisa Su | CES | AMD
Tensilica at CES

By Paul McLellan | 14 Jan 2019

Tensilica has been attending CES for many years, before it was acquired by Cadence. The focus used to be on audio processing, with the HiFi family of processors. In fact, as I said in my preview post for this year's CES (see CES Preview ), we now...

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hifi 5 | CES | Vision P6 | Tensilica | dna100
Gordon Moore Killed the Oakland Tribune

By Paul McLellan | 11 Jan 2019

The Oakland Tribune closed down in 2016. It remains to be seen if the San Jose Mercury or the San Francisco Chronicle follows. There are lots of plausible stories as to why this happened. I think two of the most significant are Craigslist, and t...

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newspapers | journalism
Consumer Electronics: 5G, AI, and Air Taxis

By Paul McLellan | 10 Jan 2019

I'm sure you've heard the great marketing catchphrase that "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." Well, this week it is the Consumer Electronics Show, better known by its initials, CES. About 4,000 exhibitors are hoping that ...

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Apple | Consumer Electronics | CES | ces2019
SiFive: The Magnificent Seven

By Paul McLellan | 9 Jan 2019

At least for now, I think that the most significant of the RISC-V processor companies is SiFive. There are two reasons for this: they started first, and they are an IP licensing company (as well as a chip company), not someone creating an implementat...

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risc-v | ARM | sifive
Breakfast Nibbles: Predictions for 2019

By Paul McLellan | 8 Jan 2019

It is the start of the year, so time to provide my predictions for 2019. These are the topics that I expect I will spend a lot of time writing about this year. Let's start with the big picture, and work down to the small (do we call it a 30&Aring...

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5G | automotive | China | Memory | deep learning | 3nm | cloud | DRAM | 5nm | neural networks | EUV
2018: A Year of Breakfasts

By Paul McLellan | 7 Jan 2019

It's the start of a new year. Tomorrow, I'll pick out what I think that the big trends for 2019 are going to be. But today, let's take a look at how my predictions for 2018 fared from my post Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions for 2018 ....

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security | automotive | artificial intelligence | China | deep learning | photonics | 5nm | EUV
Sunday Brunch Video for 8th January 2019

By Paul McLellan | 6 Jan 2019

https://youtu.be/tAMYvJJcPy0 Made at Vieira Park, San Jose (camera Carey Guo) Wednesday: 150th Anniversary of the Periodic Table of the Elements Thursday: IEDM: The World After Copper Friday: RISC-V Cores: SweRV and ET-Maxion www.breakfastb...

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interconnect | risc-v | esperanto | ruthenium | maxion | swerv | IEDM
RISC-V Cores: SweRV and ET-Maxion

By Paul McLellan | 4 Jan 2019

December was the first RISC-V summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I covered that in my post RISC-V: Real Products in Volume . The one-sentence summary of the state of RISC-V is that it is already dominant in academia, and has some traction w...

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Western Digital | risc-v | esperanto | maxion | swerv
IEDM: The World After Copper

By Paul McLellan | 3 Jan 2019

I remember Gary Patton, the CTO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, telling me once that research seemed to have flipped, and whereas he used to have most people working on transistors and interconnect was an afterthought, now it was the other way around. Just scali...

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interconnect | cobalt | copper | 3nm | contact | imec | amat | 5nm | IEDM | rubidium
150th Anniversary of the Periodic Table of the Elements

By Paul McLellan | 2 Jan 2019

Happy New Year, and welcome to another year of Breakfast Bytes. This year is the 150th anniversary of the periodic table of the elements. That's the table that would have been on the wall somewhere when you took any chemistry lessons. There's...

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mendeleev | periodic table
Sunday Brunch Video for 1st January 2019

By Paul McLellan | 1 Jan 2019

https://youtu.be/my0o9-PD-a8 Made at the Cadence EBC (camera Sean) Monday: CES Preview Tuesday: The Economist on Silicon Supremacy Wednesday: The Breakfast Bytes Guide to Flying Thursday: Top 10 Hotel Pet Peeves Friday: Off Topic: Are You S...

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The Economist | CES | flying | puzzle | hotels
Silent Night

By Paul McLellan | 24 Dec 2018

Happy Christmas from Breakfast Bytes. It's Christmas Eve 2018, and 200 years ago today, Christmas Eve 1818, was the first performance of Silent Night, although since this was Oberndorf, Austria, it was in German, Stille Nacht. You may know the s...

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silent night | anniversary | off topic | Christmas
Off Topic: Are You Smarter Than Google?

By Paul McLellan | 21 Dec 2018

It's the day before Cadence is shut down for the holidays. Breakfast Bytes will resume normal service on January 2nd. So today is something off-topic. I thought I'd talk about two very contentious problems in mathematics, that manage to get P...

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off topic | monty hall problem | are you smarter than google
Top 10 Hotel Pet Peeves

By Paul McLellan | 20 Dec 2018

When it comes to hotels, I have simple tastes. As long as the bed is comfortable, the room is clean, the shower works, and the WiFi connects then I'm happy. When I am paying myself, I never opt for top-of-the-line hotels with top-of-the-line pric...

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hotel | travel
The Breakfast Bytes Guide to Flying

By Paul McLellan | 19 Dec 2018

I fly a fair bit, a little over 100,000 miles a year in the last few years. There are many people in Cadence who fly a lot more than me, but I write a blog and they don't. So I thought I'd write down my advice on how to travel on long-ha...

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The Economist on Silicon Supremacy

By Paul McLellan | 18 Dec 2018

A couple of weeks ago, the cover story of The Economist was Chip Wars: China, America and silicon supremacy . For the last few years it has been the biggest story in the semiconductor industry. You may already know the incredible fact that the value o...

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China | The Economist
CES Preview

By Paul McLellan | 17 Dec 2018

It's nearly January so it is nearly the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which takes place the first full working week of the year, so this year it starts on the evening of 7th, with an opening keynote (this year from LG, taking over from ...

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hifi 5 | vison q6 | dna 100 | Consumer Electronics Show | CES | Tensilica
Sunday Brunch Video for 16th December 2018

By Paul McLellan | 16 Dec 2018

https://youtu.be/izP9iUskcXQ Made at the Cadence Marketing Holiday Party (camera Sean) Monday: RISC-V: Real Products in Volume Tuesday: IEDM: All About Interconnect Wednesday: The Conway Disappearance Effect Thursday: Automotive Summit: The Road...

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automotive | risc-v | lidar | radar | vision | lynn conway | IEDM
Automotive Sensors: Cameras, Lidar, Radar, Thermal

By Paul McLellan | 14 Dec 2018

Yesterday I wrote a sort of overview of the Cadence Automotive Summit that took place in November, in the post Automotive Summit: The Road to an Autonomous Future . Today, the focus in on a key part of automating driving, namely sensors. One of the fi...

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automotive | embedded vision | lidar | radar | ISO 26262 | automotive summit

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