Breakfast Bytes Blogs

This is a continuation of last week's post Benedict Evans' on Tech in 2021 . That covered Covid Acceleration and the Great Unbundling. Today, the rest of his presentation. Harder Problems In the first 20 years of the inter...

What is computational fluid dynamics, or CFD? And what does that have to do with the America's Cup? This year it was won by Emirates Team New Zealand. Their secret weapon was NUMECA's FINE/Marine CFD software, which was used to design the hull and fo...

Target (yes, that Target, the retailer) has an infrastructure and cloud conference, held last week. There CIO Mike McNamara (not to be confused with Cadence alumnus Michael "Mac" McNamara now CEO of Adapt-IP) announced that Target would joi...

https://youtu.be/D29rGqkkf80 Made in "Hawaii" (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: Dynamic Duo 2: The Sequel Tuesday: Gall's Law and Big Ball of Mud Wednesday: Benedict Evans on Tech in 2021 Thursday: Cadence/Samsung Automotive Reference F...

You probably already know what ISO 26262 is. If you don't, then you can find out in several previous posts: "The Safest Train Is One that Never Leaves the Station" History of ISO 26262 ISO 26262...Chapter 11 What to Do About IP Developed Before ISO ...

Today, Cadence and Samsung announced the availability of an Automotive Reference Flow for Samsung Foundry's 14LPU process technology. In the press release back in 2016 when the process was first announced, Samsung said: Samsung’s fourth-ge...

Benedict Evans used to work in Silicon Valley for Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z) but he returned to the UK (he's British). But one thing hasn't changed—he still does a big Powerpoint early in the year about the major internet trends that are driving...

Gall's Law says: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working...

There's a story, probably apocryphal, about a screenwriter pitching a movie in Hollywood. The potential producer says "It looks like a great movie. It's a pity nobody has made it already so we could make the sequel". Given that almost every other mov...

Tomorrow is another Cadence global holiday. None of us will be working and Breakfast Bytes will not appear. I rather like these special Cadence holidays, compared to true public holidays, since most people are working. If you go to a park, the p...

Today is the 70th anniversary of a very significant event in all our lives, even if few of us were alive back then. Exactly 70 years ago, March 31, 1951, the first commercial computer shipped. You might assume that the first computer was shipped...

Yesterday, in my post Intel IDM 2.0 , I gave a summary of Pat Gelsinger's presentation last week on... well, everything he is doing as CEO of Intel after not much more than a month in the job—somehow I think that he's been thinking about...

You've probably read in the press that Intel's new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, laid out his vision for Intel's future last week. You probably also know that, as he put it, "I've spent four decades in this industry, three of them here at ...

I attended a webcast on Anti-Fraud organized by the RSA Conference in the leadup to the conference itself. It will be virtual, of course, and it will be held from May 17 to 20. If any aspect of your job involves security, or you are just interested, ...

There is something in philosophy known as the Sorites paradox. If you have a heap of sand, and you remove a grain, is it still a heap? Well, sure. So, remove another grain. It's still a heap. But if you keep removing sand, do...

The (U.S.) National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recently published its final report. The report is 756 pages long, so I am not going to claim that I've read it all. I read the introduction and some of the conclusion, and the ch...

Most conferences take place annually, or in some cases every two years. The History of Programming Languages (HOPL) is held more like once every fifteen years. The first three were held in 1978, 1993, and 2007. The fourth was going to be held last ye...

Recently, I wrote about #2a on Cooley's Best of 2020 list, which was Cadence's vManager. See my post DeepChip Best of 2020: vManager . Number #2b on John's list is Xcelium ML. As I said in the earlier post, Paul Cunningham likes to tal...

https://youtu.be/i96zZHBFnTQ Made in my kitchen (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: The History of PCIe: Getting to Version 6 Tuesday: Announcing Sigrity X Wednesday: DeepChip Best of 2020: vManager Thursday: Offtopic: Man Wife Lung Slices (夫妻肺片) Friday: Ca...

Tomorrow is a Cadence global holiday. That's what it sounds like. Breakfast Bytes will not appear, and as is now traditional, the day before any break I go off-topic. The Friday before Martin Luther King Jr Day, I wrote about cooking spatchcock c...

We just finished 2020 (and let's hope 2021 is a better year). Every year, John Cooley runs a "best of EDA" survey, in which users vote on the best EDA products. This year, #2a on John's list is Cadence's vManager Verification Management. John announc...

There are many different computational software algorithms used in EDA. One challenge of EDA is that design groups are always creating the next generation of SoCs on the current generation of processors. In the 1990s and 2000s, however, the microproc...

PCIe, or Peripheral Component Interconnect Express which nobody ever says, was an upgrade to the earlier PCI bus. This was developed by Intel and introduced in 1992. It replaced several older, slower buses that had been used in a somewhat ad-hoc fash...

https://youtu.be/bzgotynPvs8 Made at Fry's Electronics in San Jose (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: Your Best Buys Are Always at Fry's Tuesday: Let’s Talk About Chiplets, Baby Wednesday: Paul Cunningham's DVCon Keynote: Verification Throu...

Back in the pre-Cadence days when I had the EDAgraffiti blog, I wrote about the Carrington event. I got a lot of positive feedback about it from people in the electronics industry, mostly saying that they had never heard of it. The Car...