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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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Maglev Trains

By Paul McLellan | 16 Aug 2019

Earlier this week I was in Shanghai for CDNLive China. More about what was said there next week. Today's post is about getting to the hotel where CDNLive was held from the airport. Most people just take a taxi, but I like to try and use the local tr...

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cdnlive china | maglev | Shanghai
Black Hat: Glitching Microcontrollers

By Paul McLellan | 15 Aug 2019

As a paid-up member of the semiconductor community, the most interesting presentation I saw at Black Hat was about glitching microcontrollers. One way that chips are vulnerable to security issues is that all our chip knowledge tells us that things ar...

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CDNLive Taiwan 2019

By Paul McLellan | 14 Aug 2019

I haven't been to Taiwan since the last time I worked for Cadence in the early 2000s. At that time, I was running Custom IC, which also included physical verification—we were structured a bit differently back then. However, one reason behind th...

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Black Hat: Phishing on Gmail

By Paul McLellan | 13 Aug 2019

A few weeks ago I wrote a post Passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication about the scale of attacks on cloud providers and other services. At the recent Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas, Google's research lead for security, Elie Bu...

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Arm on Autonomous Automotive

By Paul McLellan | 12 Aug 2019

Let me start this post with a brief history of autonomous driving. Most people date the start of the autonomous driving era to 2004, with the Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert over a 150-mile course. That turned out to be 142 miles longer tha...

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automotive | autonomous | ADAS | ARM
Sunday Brunch Video for 11th August 2019

By Paul McLellan | 11 Aug 2019

https://youtu.be/ZXa5ZZzAWXs Made at Cadence campus (camera Sean) Monday: Automotive Industry Basics Tuesday: Mary Meeker: How Much Is the Internet Growing? Wednesday: Mary Meeker: Fulfillment, News, and Money Thursday: Mary Meeker: Security, Gi...

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AImotive: Shifting Gear in Automotive

By Paul McLellan | 9 Aug 2019

At the recent Cadence Automotive Design Summit, Laszlo Kishonti, CEO of AImotive, presented From Walled Gardens to Collaboration: Shift in the Automated Driving Industry. AImotive is based in Budapest, and when introducing him, Cadence's Robert S...

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automotive | autonomous driving | ADAS
Mary Meeker: Security, Gigs, Healthcare, China

By Paul McLellan | 8 Aug 2019

This is the third (of three) posts about Mary Meeker's 2019 report on Internet Trends. The first was on Monday . The second was yesterday. If you don't know who Mary Meeker is or what this report is, then start at the beginning....

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Mary Meeker: Fulfillment, News, and Money

By Paul McLellan | 7 Aug 2019

This is the second post (of three) about Mary Meeker's 2019 report on Internet Trends. The first was yesterday . You should read that post first since this one simply picks up where that one left off. If you have no idea who Mary Meeker is, then y...

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Mary Meeker: How Much Is the Internet Growing?

By Paul McLellan | 6 Aug 2019

Every year Mary Meeker produces a big presentation on Internet Trends. And when I say big, I mean it. This year the presentation has 334 slides. In previous years, going back to 1995, Mary was a general partner at Kleiner Perkins, but she is now...

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Automotive Industry Basics

By Paul McLellan | 5 Aug 2019

A couple of weeks ago Cadence held its second Automotive Design Summit here on the Cadence campus in San Jose. I will cover some of what was said over the next week or two, but I thought it might be good to do a recap on the basics of the automotive ...

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automotive | tier-1 | automotive oem | autonomous driving | ADAS | tier-2
Sunday Brunch Video for 4th August 2019

By Paul McLellan | 4 Aug 2019

https://youtu.be/5b0hczb-5FI Made at building 11 (camera Sean) Monday: Ludwigsburg: It's All About Return-on-Investment Tuesday: 5G in US vs Rest-of-World Wednesday: IEEE Unified Power Models Thursday: CHIPs: Interns around the World Friday:...

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My Boris Johnson Story

By Paul McLellan | 2 Aug 2019

Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister of Britain. Unlike most people who rise in politics, he has not been a career politician. Sure, he was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, beating the shoo-in Labor candidate and winning re-election to a se...

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CHIPs: Interns Around the World

By Paul McLellan | 1 Aug 2019

Cadence has an intern program that goes under the name CHIPs, for college hires and internship programs. I gave some background on it last year in my post CHIPs in the Cadence Cafeteria , and the year before in CHIP: College Hire and Internship P...

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IEEE Unified Power Models

By Paul McLellan | 31 Jul 2019

Today the IEEE announced the release of IEEE 2416-2019, a standard for unified power models. Last week, I talked to Jerry Frenkil of Si2, the Silicon Integration Initiative, to get the details. As it happens, Jerry joined VLSI Technology a couple of ...

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Low Power | Si2 | ieee 2416 | thermal | power
5G in US vs Rest-of-World

By Paul McLellan | 30 Jul 2019

While I was in Germany for the Automobil Elektronik Kongress, the results of the 5G auctions were just announced. Four companies paid €6.5B for spectrum. These were in the 2GHz and 3.5GHz bands. A few weeks earlier, the US Federal Communications...

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5G | mmwave | mobile
Ludwigsburg: It's All About Return-on-Investment

By Paul McLellan | 29 Jul 2019

I attended the Automobil Elektronik Kongress at Ludwigsburg outside Stuttgart. it was the 23rd year that it has run, and the third that I have attended. The atmosphere has been very different at all three. I summarized the changes affecting the autom...

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automotive | Automotiv Elektronik Kongress | ludwigsburg | ADAS
Sunday Brunch Video for 28th July 2019

By Paul McLellan | 28 Jul 2019

https://youtu.be/-36euXtgU7Y Made at Cadence Summer of Love Party (camera Chad Yee) Monday: Passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication Tuesday: Virtuoso Meets Maxwell Wednesday: Computer Scientist Alan Turing to Be on British £50 Note Thurs...

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Digital Twins at the Paris Air Show

By Paul McLellan | 26 Jul 2019

The idea of a digital twin should be easy for anyone in aerospace to understand. After all, pilots learn to fly planes on simulators of various kinds, which are digital twins. There are two main types, the cheaper ones have the cockpit and graphics b...

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Aerospace | Protium | Palladium | digital twin | paris air show | verification
Galileo Down for a Week

By Paul McLellan | 25 Jul 2019

You might never have heard of Galileo, the European Union's GNSS, or Global Navigation Satellite System. That's because your phone probably uses the US system known as GPS or Global Positioning System. There are actually four GNSSs: GPS (US),...

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Galileo | GPS | mobile

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