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By Paul McLellan | 19 Apr 2019

Everyone in technology, even as far down the value chain as EDA and semiconductors, should understand the implications of how the technology they work on is being used upstream—in particular, how technology interacts with the social a...

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free speech | gdpr | european union
SEMICON China: 100,000 Visitors

By Paul McLellan | 18 Apr 2019

China is hugely important for electronics in general and semiconductor in particular. You can't really appreciate it from the bubble of Silicon Valley, you have to go there. For the second year, I attended SEMICON China in Shanghai (conveniently ...

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semicon china | semi
Genus and Innovus: Compus and Spatial

By Paul McLellan | 17 Apr 2019

Yesterday I covered the first part of Chuck Alpert's presentation on the upcoming-any-day-now release of Genus (19.1 i you're counting). Today I'll dig into the details a bit more. Compus In the new release, there is a next-generation co...

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Genus | CDNLive | Innovus | Synthesis
Genus and Innovus: Together at Last

By Paul McLellan | 16 Apr 2019

Yesterday I wrote about a presentation at CDNLive Silicon Valley Qualcomm: Bring Me My Snapdragons , where Pavan Patibanda explained the methodology that they use for having a workable methodology for designing Snapdragon SoCs. The following...

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Genus | CDNLive | Synthesis | CDNLive Silicon Valley
Qualcomm: Bring Me My Snapdragons

By Paul McLellan | 15 Apr 2019

I'm writing this before the Game of Thrones season opener last night. But since last season ended with an undead dragon demolishing the wall, I'm pretty sure dragons will play a big part. More relevant to semiconductors is Snapdragon, Qualcomm's...

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Genus | CDNLive | Qualcomm | Innovus | Synthesis | CDNLive Silicon Valley
Sunday Brunch Video for 14th April 2019

By Paul McLellan | 14 Apr 2019

https://youtu.be/ml397HeOHcc Made at Steve Brown's Tesla in Cadence parking lot (camera Steve Brown) Monday: Driving Dangerously Tuesday: Barefoot in a CloudBurst: Tempus on 2000+ CPUs Wednesday: TI's Experience Taping out with Pegasus Thursd...

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Brad Brim and the History of Signal Integrity

By Paul McLellan | 12 Apr 2019

I sat down with Brad Brim recently. He was retiring from Cadence literally the following day. He has worked on signal integrity his entire career, which spans the period from signal integrity not really being anything at all in the digital world...

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signal integrity | Sigrity | clarity
Superhuman Photonic Design

By Paul McLellan | 11 Apr 2019

I recently came across an article titled Generative Design Could Radically Transform the Look of Our World . No, the article wasn't about semiconductor design... at least not yet. It was about architecture. And chairs. For example, the image ...

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curvycore | Lumerical | silicon photonics | Virtuoso | photonics
TI's Experience Taping out with Pegasus

By Paul McLellan | 10 Apr 2019

At the recent CDNLive Silicon Valley, Kyle Peavey of Texas Instruments (TI) presented Cadence Pegasus Physical Verification: A Customer Tapeout Experience, along with Cadence's Digo (Dibyendu) Goswami. Obviously, just based on the title, TI ...

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CDNLive | pegasus | DRC | design rule check | CDNLive Silicon Valley
Barefoot in a CloudBurst: Tempus on 2000+ CPUs

By Paul McLellan | 9 Apr 2019

Barefoot Networks gave a couple of presentations at the recent CDNLive Silicon Valley. Both presentations were about the latest member of their Tofino family of ASICs. This networking chip has a throughput of 12.8Tbps and is fully programmable. It ha...

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CDNLive | barefoot networks | cloudburst | cadence cloud | CDNLive Silicon Valley
Driving Dangerously

By Paul McLellan | 8 Apr 2019

I've written a few times before about the fragility of neural networks, for example in last year's post Fooling Neural Networks . There is an unstated assumption underlying the training of neural networks that the environment is benign, a...

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automotive | deep learning | tesla | ADAS | neural networks
Sunday Brunch Video for 7th April 2019

By Paul McLellan | 7 Apr 2019

https://youtu.be/DUu3M30lilE Made at CDNLive Silicon Valley (camera Sean) Monday: CloudBurst: The Best of Both Worlds Tuesday: Bringing Clarity to System Analysis Wednesday: Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio Win 2019 Turing Award Thursday: ...

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sunday brunch
RSA: Public Interest Technologists

By Paul McLellan | 5 Apr 2019

Yesterday, I wrote about the first half of Bruce Schneier's keynote at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco. Today, the second half, and the audience Q&A. If you work in security in any way, or just have some interest in the area, you o...

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security | policy | schneier
RSA: Bruce Schneier

By Paul McLellan | 4 Apr 2019

I have been following Bruce Schneier for a long time. He literally wrote the book on cryptographic algorithms, Applied Cryptography, in two editions, both of which I own. He has run an email newsletter, Crypto-Gram, since 1998 ( subscribe ). He has a b...

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security | public interest technology | rsa | schneier
Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio Win 2019 Turing Award

By Paul McLellan | 3 Apr 2019

This year's Alan Turing Award goes to Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio. According to the New York Times, they are the "Godfathers of Deep Learning", presumably in the non-mafia sense ("nice neural network you've got ...

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deep learning | turing award | neural networks | AI
Bringing Clarity to System Analysis

By Paul McLellan | 2 Apr 2019

Today, at CDNLive Silicon Valley, Lip-Bu Tan, Cadence's CEO, announced the Clarity 3D Solver during his keynote. This is the first product in Cadence’s system analysis effort, break-through EM simulation technology that delivers 10X performance...

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3d field solver | cloud | cadence cloud | Sigrity | clarity
CloudBurst: The Best of Both Worlds

By Paul McLellan | 1 Apr 2019

I think if you were starting a new semiconductor company, you would go straight for a cloud-based solution and not bother with the cost and complexity of building up your own datacenter, and the black-belt IT department needed to install an...

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cloud | cloudburst | cadence cloud
Sunday Brunch Video for 31st March 2019

By Paul McLellan | 31 Mar 2019

https://youtu.be/2_zmjd8wM0c Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: AI Index Tuesday: 8 Ways to Get the Most out of CDNLive Silicon Valley Wednesday: The Ladybird Book of Quantum Mechanics Thursday: Scaling EDA in the Cloud Friday: Twenty Year...

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Twenty Years in the Matrix

By Paul McLellan | 29 Mar 2019

It is hard to believe, but Sunday will be the 20th anniversary of The Matrix. It was released on 31st March 1999. I'm going to assume you've seen it. At this point, if you haven't, it's probably somewhat spoiled for you anyw...

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simulation hypothesis | the matrix | simulation
Scaling EDA in the Cloud

By Paul McLellan | 28 Mar 2019

Last year at DAC, we announced Cadence Cloud (for details see my post cleverly titled Cadence Cloud ). Of course, one aspect of the cloud is that it allows you to have as much of everything as you need—if you want 100 SystemVerilog simulat...

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cloud | causality | cadence cloud | amdahl's law
The Ladybird Book of Quantum Mechanics

By Paul McLellan | 27 Mar 2019

I mentioned in passing in a recent post that when I was helping teach first-year computer science students at the University of Edinburgh, I used to recommend that they bought a copy of The Ladybird Book of the Computer. Since Ladybird books were gen...

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core memory | DRAM | ladybird
8 Ways to Get the Most out of CDNLive Silicon Valley

By Paul McLellan | 26 Mar 2019

It's CDNLive! Well, not today, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 2nd and 3rd at the Santa Clara Convention Center. So I have eight things you can do to get the most out of CDNLive and go home with a new addition to your wardrobe. And, if you...

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AI Index

By Paul McLellan | 25 Mar 2019

The 2018 AI Index Report , developed by scientists and researchers in the AI field was recently released. This report uses quantitative data, such as publication counts or mentions of AI, to assess the state of AI today. I've said a couple of...

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artificial intelligence | deep learning | AI
Sunday Brunch Video for 24th March 2019

By Paul McLellan | 24 Mar 2019

https://youtu.be/FFd9mncMANI Made at SEMICON China (camera Tracy Zhu) Monday: The World Wide Web Was Born 30 Years Ago This Month Tuesday: RSA: From Helen Mirren to Tina Fey Wednesday: RSA Cryptographers' Panel Thursday: #learntoco...

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RSA: The Director of the FBI

By Paul McLellan | 22 Mar 2019

Christopher Wray, the current (and the 8th) Director of the FBI, wrapped up the opening keynote session, in discussion with Susan Hennessey of the Brookings Institution. Change Your Facebook Password Today But before I get to that, here's a publi...

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rsa | fbi

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