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RSA Wrapup: Song, Darling, Thrun

By Paul McLellan | 19 Jun 2018

The closing session of the RSA conference was a sort of chat-show hosted by Hugh Thompson, who is the RSA Program Chair. He brought up three people, two of who have featured in Breakfast Bytes posts before. The proceedings started with a session wher...

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sebastian thrun | security | artificial intelligence | rsa conference | rsa | kate darling | dawn song
Why Millennial Engineers Should Work for Cadence

By Paul McLellan | 18 Jun 2018

Many years ago, when Nokia was at the top of its game—one in every three phones shipped was a Nokia—I chatted to the sister of a friend of mine who was something senior in Nokia finance. I think she was the controller for a good part of t...

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andy kessler | EDA
The Design Infrastructure Alley

By Paul McLellan | 15 Jun 2018

One of the new things at DAC this year is the Design Infrastructure Alley. The Alley is an initiative from the ESD Alliance and the Association for High-Performance Computing Professionals to highlight the information technology infrastructure,...

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dac55 | DAC | infrastructure alley
Pie and Chips at DAC: ChipEstimate.com and the First Annual Pi Contest

By Paul McLellan | 14 Jun 2018

In Scotland, there is a traditional dish of pie and chips. But the pie is not a sweet fruit pie, like something Marie Callendar would make, but it is full of minced lamb. And chips are what Americans call fries (except in the phrase "fish & ...

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DAC | ChipEstimate.com | Perspec | pss
"I Couldn't Imagine Being Too Poor for Servants, or Rich Enough for a Car"

By Paul McLellan | 13 Jun 2018

Agatha Christie, looking back on her early life, remarked that she: I couldn’t imagine being too poor to afford servants, nor so rich as to be able to afford a car. Like most of us, I've been the other way around. I've owned a car sin...

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exponential | moore's law | baumol's cost disease
Imec on EUV. Are We There Yet?

By Paul McLellan | 12 Jun 2018

I already gave an introduction to my first visit to imec in my life in my post If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium. My First Visit to imec One of the things I mentioned there is that they have an EUV stepper in their fab, and they work clos...

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imec | stochastics | EUV
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 18th to 22nd 2018

By Paul McLellan | 12 Jun 2018

https://youtu.be/puYFl7m50tM Coming from Dilijian Armenia (camera Gary Bengier) Monday: Why Millennial Engineers Should Work for Cadence Tuesday: Wrapup from the RSA Security Conference Wednesday: Dolby DAP Light Thursday: Automotiv Elektronik ...

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rsa conference | rsa | Dolby | millennial | virtual cad | Tensilica | ludwigsburg | dap light
FD-SOI vs FinFET: Dan Hutcheson Re-Runs His Survey

By Paul McLellan | 11 Jun 2018

Recently, the SOI Consortium held its annual Silicon Valley Symposium. I was only able to attend in the afternoon since I spend the morning at the ESD Alliance workshop on digital marketing (for more on that, see my post Digital Marketing—With ...

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FinFET | FD-SOI
Why Did EDA Have a Hardware Business Model?

By Paul McLellan | 8 Jun 2018

Business models are really important. Just ask any internet startup company that has lots of users and is trying to work out how to monetize them. It is a lot easier to get people to use something for free, much harder to get people to pay for s...

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term license | hardware | EDA | cadence cloud
Imec Roadmap

By Paul McLellan | 7 Jun 2018

I recently visited imec. For an overview of my day, see my earlier post If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium. My First Visit to imec . One of the things that imec does is to take the funnel of potential process developments and get some ...

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nanosheet | stco | 3nm | imec | gaa | FinFET | DTCO
Heinz Nixdorf's Legacy in Paderborn

By Paul McLellan | 6 Jun 2018

I read somewhere that the largest computer museum in the world is the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, which is in central Germany, a longish distance from anywhere I was likely to be. But after CDNLive EMEA, I visited imec in Belgium (s...

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paderborn | museum | heinz nixdorf museumsforum | nixdorf
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 11th to 15th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 5 Jun 2018

https://youtu.be/IYm-CauwKTo Coming from Yerevan Armenia (camera Jack Darrow) Monday: Dan Hutcheson Reruns his FD-SOI vs FinFET Survey Tuesday: Imec on EUV. Are We There Yet? Wednesday: "I Couldn't Imagine Being Too Poor for ...

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dac55 | chipestimate | Raspberry Pi | cloud | baumol's cost disease | FinFET | EUV | FD-SOI
A Computer Scientist Takes a Look at Mechanical Security

By Paul McLellan | 5 Jun 2018

I wrote recently about visiting The Tech in San Jose. One of the exhibits showed you how a cylinder lock worked (and even how lock picks worked, since you could use them to open the lock without using a key). I mentioned an academic paper about maste...

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security | master key
TI Flies Pegasus in the Clouds

By Paul McLellan | 4 Jun 2018

Kyle Peavy of Texas Instruments reported on their experience with Pegasus, Cadence's newish physical verification system, at CDNLive Silicon Valley . You won't be surprised to know that TI's chips are getting more complex and larger,...

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Physical verification | CDNLive | pegasus | cloud | Texas Instruments
Samsung Foundry Forum: 10, 8, 7, EUV, 5, 4, GAA, 3...

By Paul McLellan | 1 Jun 2018

Last week was the Samsung Foundry Forum. Almost exactly a year ago, Samsung reorganized so that foundry was a standalone business, a part of device solutions (along with memory, and system-LSI). As you might expect, US contributes the most revenue to...

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3nm | Samsung | gaa | samsung foundry forum | sff | 5nm | 7nm | EUV
It'll be HOT on Sunday Evening at DAC

By Paul McLellan | 31 May 2018

For several DACs now, Heart of Technology (HOT) has run a party on Monday night. This year there is a HOT party...but it is on Sunday night after the DAC welcome reception. Heart of Technology is a philanthropic organization started by Jim Hogan...

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DAC | HOT | Heart of Technology | Gary Smith | sjsu
7 Ways to Get the Most out of DAC

By Paul McLellan | 30 May 2018

DAC, the Design Automation Conference, is coming up. It's Sunday June 24th to Thursday June 28th in San Francisco. But in a slightly new location: Moscone West. The other halls, Moscone North and South, are halfway through a major reconstruction,...

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DAC | dac2018 | 55DAC
If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium. My First Visit to imec

By Paul McLellan | 29 May 2018

Outside of semiconductor, Belgium is famous for three things: beer, chocolate, and fries (which they eat with mayonnaise). Inside semiconductor, it is famous for imec. It's also famous for the 1969 movie If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Bel...

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Memory | 3D NAND | imec | DRAM | RRAM | belgium | MRAM | EUV | DTCO
Aren't All Crosswords Cryptic?

By Paul McLellan | 28 May 2018

It's Memorial Day, so Breakfast Bytes is off today. Well, obviously not completely, since you're reading this. Pop quiz: what was Memorial Day called before it was called Memorial Day? Crosswords I have a hobby of sorts. I like to do cro...

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off-topic | crossword
GDPR Starts Today

By Paul McLellan | 25 May 2018

You are probably subscribed to a number of email newsletters. No doubt you have been receiving emails saying that the system is changing the way that they are handling their mailing lists and that if you want to continue to receive the emails, then ...

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Facebook | gdpr
Embedded Vision: Seeing 20,000X Improvement

By Paul McLellan | 24 May 2018

This week it is the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara. Over the last few years, vision has gone from something esoteric to a mainstream part of many systems, with ADAS in automobiles, smart security cameras that analyze the video stream, dr...

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Embedded Vision Summit | Tensilica | neural network
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 28th to June 1st 2018

By Paul McLellan | 23 May 2018

https://youtu.be/UEAZjA-_xrE Coming from Embedded Vision Summit (camera Sean) Monday: Memorial Day off-topic Tuesday: If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium Wednesday: 7 Ways to Get the Most out of DAC Thursday: It's HOT on DAC Sun...

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DAC | pegasus | HOT | Heart of Technology | imec | 55DAC
MEMS Design Competition: The Envelope Please...

By Paul McLellan | 23 May 2018

The Cadence Academic Network sponsored a MEMS design contest over the last couple of years. At CDNLive EMEA 2018, the winners were announced. The idea was to encourage groups to design using a mixture of the Cadence analog/mixed-signal design tools, ...

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Cadence Academic Network | CDNLive | MEMS
Accelerating AI: ...Present and Future

By Paul McLellan | 22 May 2018

Yesterday I wrote about the first part of Krste Asanović's presentation Accelerating AI: Past, Present, and Future. Although yesterday's post only covered the past. Today, it's time for the present and future. Graphics Processing Units GP...

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artificial intelligence | risc-v | Krste Asanović | sifive
Accelerating AI: Past...

By Paul McLellan | 21 May 2018

SiFive does a quarterly series of tech talks, not necessarily directly to do with SiFive or even RISC-V. For example, last quarter it was Paul Kocher (and if you don't know that name, you need to go and read my post about that talk Paul...

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artificial intelligence | risc-v | neural networks | Krste Asanović | sifive

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