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The DARPA Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI)

By Paul McLellan | 19 Oct 2018

Many weeks ago DARPA organized a summit at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. The first day consisted of a workshop and some other presentations, including one by Cadence's Tom Beckley. Since Tom's presentation was very similar to what he...

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openroad | magestic | idea | posh | eri | darpa
CDNLive Israel 2018

By Paul McLellan | 18 Oct 2018

This week it was the last CDNLive of the year, CDNLive Israel in Tel Aviv. From my point of view the show ran perfectly. But I'm always reminded of that description of a swan as "serene on top and furiously paddling underneath." I reali...

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Jasper User Group 2018

By Paul McLellan | 17 Oct 2018

This week it is CDNLive Israel. But last week it was Jasper User Group (JUG). At it happens, Jasper was one of the early companies to sign up with SemiWiki when we started it, so I've been going to Jasper User Group for longer than either I'v...

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Jasper User Group | formal | formal signoff | JasperGold | Formal verification
Of Arms and the Man I Sing

By Paul McLellan | 16 Oct 2018

Arma virumque cano—of arms and the man I sing. This is the famous opening line of Virgil's Aeneid, the curse of many a schoolboy's Latin learning days, mine included. Anyway, the reason for all this talk about arms (Arma) is that today is ...

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ARM Techcon | arm datacenter | hpe | xcelium | ARM | JasperGold | verification
DDR5 Is on Our Doorstep

By Paul McLellan | 15 Oct 2018

The talk of the town in the DRAM market (well, apart from its growth in the last couple of years) is DDR5. You might assume from the talk that JEDEC has finalized the standard, but it is actually technically still in development. I believe that the f...

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OIP | ddr5 | DDR4 | Micron | TSMC | DRAM
ESD Alliance Workshop on Digital Marketing: Tools and Sales

By Paul McLellan | 12 Oct 2018

Yesterday was the first part about the ESD Alliance Digital Marketing workshop. Today, it is part 2 (of 2). Nicolas Part 2: Training and Tools Today's marketers need to be hands-on since there are a lot of different aspects and it is too slow (no...

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digital marketing | onespin | esd alliance
ESD Alliance Workshop on Digital Marketing: Agility

By Paul McLellan | 11 Oct 2018

Last week the ESD Alliance ran another workshop on digital marketing, with Nicolas Athanasopoulos of OneSpin and Dave Kelf (now at Breker, but who used to work with Nicolas at OneSpin). Unfortunately, they picked the same day as TSMC's OIP sympos...

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digital marketing | onespin | esd alliance
Azure for Silicon Design with Cadence and TSMC

By Paul McLellan | 10 Oct 2018

I used to live on the Cote d'Azur, which is what everyone else calls the French Riviera. The name comes from the blue color of the Mediterranean Sea, azur in French. In English, it is azure. But it is probably more well-known today as the name o...

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OIP | microsoft | TSMC | azure | cadence cloud
David White and Machine Learning

By Paul McLellan | 9 Oct 2018

Recently Cadence held a worldwide event for our interns. To read more about our intern program, see my post CHIPs in the Cadence Cafeteria . The number varies almost on a day-to-day basis, but when I wrote that post we had 259 interns at 13 different ...

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artificial intelligence | machine learning | David White | neural networks
History of ISO 26262

By Paul McLellan | 8 Oct 2018

I have known Kurt Shuler, the VP marketing at Arteris, for some time. But this post is not going to talk about NoCs (networks-on-chips) at all. It is about the history of ISO 26262. Kurt has been on the committee developing the standard for the secon...

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Arteris | ISO 26262 | ADAS | iso 21448 | Breakfast Bytes
TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum

By Paul McLellan | 5 Oct 2018

Last Wednesday was the TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum. The first part of the day was hosted by Dave Keller, President of TSMC America. He pointed out that it was the 10th anniversary of OIP. It has been a great success ensuring that EDA and IP are ready fo...

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OIP | 7nm+ | TSMC | 5nm | 7nm
EXTRA: Did the Chinese Really Attach Rogue Chips to Apple and Amazon's Motherboards?

By Paul McLellan | 4 Oct 2018

Today, Bloomberg's BusinessWeek (BW from now on) published a story The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate US Companies . The big question is whether they actually did or not. If they did, then this is the most brazen security breach th...

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security | Apple | China | Amazon
PCB West: History of PCB

By Paul McLellan | 4 Oct 2018

At PCB West recently, Wally Rhines gave one of the keynotes. It was titled Is Past Prologue? The Future of the PCB Design Industry. Wally said that it wasn't really his title, it was given to him by the show organizers who wanted him to do a retrospe...

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PCB | cadence | Wally Rhines | Valid | printed circuit board | Mentor
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October 8th to 12th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 3 Oct 2018

https://youtu.be/0CNhCWOxPKY Coming from TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum, Santa Clara (camera Seena Shankar) Monday: The History of ISO 26262 Tuesday: ESD Alliance Digital Marketing Workshop Wednesday: Embargoed Announcement Thursda...

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Jasper User Group | microsoft | magestic | azure | machine learning | digital marketing | cadence cloud | ISO 26262 | esd alliance
Breakfast Buffet for September 2018

By Paul McLellan | 3 Oct 2018

https://youtu.be/aWnEDVUQwoY The three highlighted posts for August were: The New Tensilica DNA 100 Deep Neural-network Accelerator CDNLive India Ambit Design Systems Sign up for Sunday Brunch, the weekly Breakfast Bytes email.

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CDNLive India | dna 100 | ambit design systems | ambit | Tensilica
TSMC OIP Virtual Design Environment

By Paul McLellan | 3 Oct 2018

Today, it is TSMC's 2018 Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum in the Santa Clara Convention Center. TSMC has two big events each year (in the US, they also take them on the road to other countries) and almost every major announcement ge...

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OIP | tsmc oip vde | 7nm+ | TSMC | InFO | microsoft azure | aws | cadence cloud | 5nm
EDPS: Experience Teaching Undergraduates EDA

By Paul McLellan | 2 Oct 2018

At the recent EDPS, Cadence's Patrick Groeneveld presented about a course that he and other EDA luminaries taught at Stanford last year. I say "Cadence's Patrick" since he currently works here, but he worked for me at Compass Design...

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Stanford | EDA | EDPS | machine learning | ee292a
GlobalFoundries Executive Team Explains the Pivot

By Paul McLellan | 1 Oct 2018

At the recent GlobalFoundries Technology Conference GTC there was a press and analyst lunch. Tom Caulfield (CEO), Gary Patton (CTO), and Bami Bastani (SVP of the business units) answered questions, Tom opened the proceedings by giving a little more d...

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GTC | fdx | GlobalFoundries
Figure-Skating Champion Wins Kaufman Award

By Paul McLellan | 28 Sep 2018

I never went to journalism school, but people get taught to open biographical articles with some anecdote to hook the reader's attention. Such as our subject got kicked out of school in 3rd grade. Or he was the Eastern US figure skating cham...

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IBM | Kaufman Award | tom williams | synopsys | esd alliance
What's For Breakfast? Video Preview October1st to 5th 2018

By Paul McLellan | 27 Sep 2018

https://youtu.be/dRLFFPgTjRM Coming from Times Square NY (camera Carey Guo) Monday: GlobalFoundries Executive Team Explain the Pivot Tuesday: EDPS: Experience Teaching Undergraduates EDA Wednesday: Embargoed Announcement Thursday:&nbsp...

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OIP | gobalfoundries | GTC | Wally Rhines | TSMC | EDPS | PCB West
GTC: GlobalFoundries Pivots

By Paul McLellan | 27 Sep 2018

Tuesday was the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference GTC. GF announced earlier in the month that they are dropping 7nm and are focusing all their effort on differentiated processes, in particular FDX (see my post GLOBALFOUNDRIES Drops 7nm ...

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GTC | fdx | GlobalFoundries
RF Design with Cadence Virtuoso and National Instrument's AXIEM

By Paul McLellan | 26 Sep 2018

When cell-phones first became a consumer product, a VP of Nokia drew me an upside-down triangle, with radio at the top. chips in the middle, and the little point at the bottom being software. When cell-phones first became a consumer product, get...

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RF | National Instruments | radio | Breakfast Bytes
CDNLive India: Invecas and FD-SOI

By Paul McLellan | 25 Sep 2018

Today it is GTC, the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference. I will be there and I will cover what was said later in the week. When I was at CDNLive India a couple of weeks ago, one highly relevant presentation was by Invecas, titled PPA Strategies Us...

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foundation IP | 22fdx | Innovus | Invecas | GlobalFoundries | FD-SOI
EDPS: Design Process in Milpitas

By Paul McLellan | 24 Sep 2018

For the second year, the Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS) took place in Milpitas, having been at Monterey for many years. This was apparently the 25th year EDPS has run. I find EDPS to be a fascinating conference, and I think it is a shame ...

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eda education | deep learning | EDPS
Jaswinder's Only Job Interview

By Paul McLellan | 21 Sep 2018

On Labor day, I didn't get the day off since I was in Delhi. I had to labor, not celebrate it by eating barbecue. Instead, I ate chicken curry, naan, and fried okra at the lunch I had with Jaswinder Ahuja in a conference room. I knew he had ...

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bengaluru | Cadence India | Noida

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