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PCIe Gen 4: It's Official, We're Compliant

By Paul McLellan | 17 Sep 2019

Way back in April 2016, I wrote a post about Cadence IP for PCI Express (PCIe) Gen4 where we demonstrated compliance with Mellanox (now part of NVIDIA). As Mellanox's Gilad Shainer said to me when I talked to him back then: interoperability...

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MLPerf: Benchmarking Machine Learning

By Paul McLellan | 16 Sep 2019

Most presentations at the recent HOT CHIPS conference are about actual chips, mostly processors of one kind or another. But in machine learning, there is a need to be able to compare these processors. This is where MLPerf comes in, putting together a...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 15th September 2019

By Paul McLellan | 15 Sep 2019

https://youtu.be/bcAO52jxk10 Made at SFO (camera Carey Guo) Monday: HOT CHIPS: In-DRAM Compute Tuesday: CDNLive India 2019: NXP and More Wednesday: EDPS Preview 2019 Thursday: Intelligent Systems Friday: Intelligent System Design www.breakf...

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Intelligent Systems

By Paul McLellan | 12 Sep 2019

Cadence's goal is to empower engineers at semiconductor and systems companies to create innovative, intelligent, and highly differentiated electronic products that transform the way people live, work, and play. One big change is for system companies ...

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EDPS Preview 2019

By Paul McLellan | 11 Sep 2019

EDPS, the Electronic Design Process Symposium, is coming up next Monday. It will be on Thursday, October 3 and Friday, October 4. Once again it will be held at SEMI's offices in Milpitas. I think of it as Gary Smith's conference, since he was al...

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deep learning | 3DIC | EDPS | more than Moore | AI
CDNLive India 2019: NXP and More

By Paul McLellan | 10 Sep 2019

Last week I covered Day 1 of CDNLive India . Today it is the turn of verification and PCB/system. With a digression to India's unusual time zone. Day 2 On Thursday, August 29, there were tracks for Advanced Verification Methodology, Performan...

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HOT CHIPS: In-DRAM Compute

By Paul McLellan | 9 Sep 2019

Something that has been discussed for years is the fact that we could add processors to DRAM memory pretty cheaply if we could work out what to do with them. Usually, when people suggest this, they don't really think it through. They are assuming...

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pim | hot chips | processor in memory
Sunday Brunch Video for 8th September 2019

By Paul McLellan | 8 Sep 2019

https://youtu.be/AvimlRMDZng Made at Cadence parking lot (camera Steve Brown) Monday: Labor Day Tuesday: HOT CHIPS: The Tesla Full Self-Driving Computer Wednesday: Conformal Litmus Thursday: Ten Reasons to Attend CDNLive Israel Friday: CDNL...

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CDNLive India 2019: Mediatek and More

By Paul McLellan | 6 Sep 2019

If you live in California, as I do, then India is a long way away. It is 11½ hours time difference, for a start. Air India has a direct flight from San Francisco to New Delhi (over 16 hours) but since CDNLive is in Bangalore, that is not ...

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Ten Reasons to Attend CDNLive Israel

By Paul McLellan | 5 Sep 2019

CDNLive Israel is coming up later this month on September 18 at the David Intercontinental in Tel Aviv. I will be attending as usual so you can expect some Breakfast Bytes posts later in the month. 1. A Day Dedicated to Your Interests As al...

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Conformal Litmus

By Paul McLellan | 4 Sep 2019

One of the earliest science experiments I can remember doing was crushing red cabbage in a mortar and pestle with some sort of alcohol. The resulting purple liquid would turn red in acid and blue in alkali. True litmus is not extracted from red cabba...

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HOT CHIPS: The Tesla Full Self-Driving Computer

By Paul McLellan | 3 Sep 2019

On April 22, Tesla held its Autonomy Day. They announced their "Self-Driving Computer" or SDC. (You can read my post from back then in my post Tesla Drives into Chip Design .) I have said several times over the years that I expected that t...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 1st September 2019

By Paul McLellan | 31 Aug 2019

https://youtu.be/_DiWWBDQbGc Made at CDNLive India (camera Corrie Callenbach) Monday: HOT CHIPS: Chipletifying Designs Tuesday: Ford: Automotive OEM to Software Manufacturer? Wednesday: CDNLive China 2019 Thursday: HOT CHIPS: Intel Inside Friday...

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Labor Day Off-Topic: Have You Been to Suomi?

By Paul McLellan | 30 Aug 2019

If you've been in the semiconductor, electronics, or mobile business for some time, chances are that you have been to Suomi. At one point it was the leader in mobile phone handsets. You just might not have realized it. It is the Finnish name for ...

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HOT CHIPS: Intel

By Paul McLellan | 29 Aug 2019

At HOT CHIPS in August, Intel was everywhere. The two announcements that I'm going to cover in this post were Spring Hill and Spring Crest, two deep learning accelerators, Spring Hill for inference and Spring Crest for training. But they also present...

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CDNLive China 2019

By Paul McLellan | 28 Aug 2019

A couple of weeks ago it was CDNLive China in Shanghai. (To read about how I got into town from Shanghai Pudong Airport, see my post Maglev Trains .) Once again, I was giving away copies of A Year of Breakfasts 2018 and signing people up for Sunday Br...

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Ford: Automotive OEM to Software Manufacturer?

By Paul McLellan | 27 Aug 2019

Soon after Marc Andreesen founded the venture capital firm Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z) ten years ago, he wrote a piece, Why Software Is Eating the World , that the WSJ published in 2011. I happened to hear the latest a16z podcast this morning, Software ...

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HOT CHIPS: Chipletifying Designs

By Paul McLellan | 26 Aug 2019

At HOT CHIPS last week, one of the themes that ran through several of the presentations, including both keynotes by AMD and TSMC, was that optimal system design requires using chiplets and 3D packaging technology. A couple of the presenters used the ...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 25th August 2019

By Paul McLellan | 25 Aug 2019

https://youtu.be/RUWt6mOAUUU Made at EBC (camera Sean) Monday: HOT CHIPS 2019 Tuesday: CDNLive India 2019 Preview Wednesday: TSMC Museum of Innovation Thursday: HOT CHIPS: The Biggest Chip in the World Friday: HOT CHIPS: Microsoft Holo...

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HOT CHIPS: Microsoft Hololens 2

By Paul McLellan | 23 Aug 2019

The very last presentation at HOT CHIPS earlier this week was by Elene Terry of Microsoft about The Silicon at the Heart of the Hololens 2. She said that her talk was about why they did custom silicon for the Hololens 2 and what's in it. I wrote ...

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HOT CHIPS: The Biggest Chip in the World

By Paul McLellan | 22 Aug 2019

At HOT CHIPS earlier this week, Cerebras announced the biggest chip in the world. Sean Lie spent the first half of his presentation talking about how deep learning algorithms get more effective with more processors, how you need to han...

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artificial intelligence | deep learning | cerebras | wafer scale integration | TSMC | hot chips | AI
TSMC Museum of Innovation

By Paul McLellan | 21 Aug 2019

When I was in Taiwan for CDNLive Taiwan, I visited the TSMC Museum of Innovation, which is near TSMC's headquarters in Hsinchu (and also near the Cadence Taiwan office). If you are interested in visiting yourself, I'll put all the details at the end ...

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CDNLive India 2019 Preview

By Paul McLellan | 20 Aug 2019

CDNLive India is coming up next week. It will be August 28 and 29 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Marathahalli in Bengaluru (fka Bangalore). I will be attending as usual so you can expect some Breakfast Bytes posts over the following couple of weeks....

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HOT CHIPS 2019

By Paul McLellan | 19 Aug 2019

This week is HOT CHIPS. It has moved from the Flint Center at De Anza College, where it has been for years, and is now in the Stanford Memorial Auditorium, which I don't believe I've ever been in before. Last week was also HOT INTERCONNECTS, held at ...

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Sunday Brunch Video for 18th August 2019

By Paul McLellan | 18 Aug 2019

https://youtu.be/xGAnEry49nw Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Arm on Autonomous Automotive Tuesday: Black Hat: Phishing on Gmail Wednesday: CDNLive Taiwan Thursday: Black Hat: Glitching Microcontrollers Friday: Maglev Trains www.breakfas...

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