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https://youtu.be/noMxaCbVPlw Made at Steamers, Los Gatos (camera Carey) Monday: Design Enablement of 2D/3D Thermal Analysis and 3-Die Stack Tuesday: IEDM: TSMC N3 Details Wednesday: Technology and the American Trucking Industry Thursda...

Wow, it's already the last Friday in January, so time for one of my monthly update posts where I cover anything that doesn't justify its own full post or which is an update to something I wrote about earlier. Automotive Security I have writte...

NASA needs a new computer. Being NASA, of course, this has an acronym, HPSC. Unusually for NASA, this has four letters, not three. Remember back in the Apollo program (assuming you were born) when we all knew what TLI, LEM, and all the rest stood for...

I have kept an eye on trucking over the last few years. Trucks are not technically cars, but from a semiconductor point of view, they are part of the automotive market segment. We're talking about big trucks here, not pickups or Amazon ...

As you know from previous blog posts, I attended IEDM in San Francisco in December. There were two presentations about TSMC's N3 process. This is actually a bit of a misnomer since TSMC has two N3 processes, one simply called N3. The other (the ...

At CadenceLIVE Europe back in November, one of the presentations was by Mohamed Naeim titled Design Enablement of 2D/3D Thermal Analysis and 3-Die Stack. Mohamed is officially a Cadence employee, but he's also a Cadence PhD resident at imec ...

https://youtu.be/ARCzcdPvLZg Made at Castle Rock State Park (camera Carey) Previous Monday: CES 2023 Trends Monday: Martin Luther King Day (no post) Tuesday: DesignCon 2023 Preview Wednesday: Improving RISC-V Processor Quality with Verifica...

At CadenceLIVE Europe back in Thanksgiving week, one of the presentations was by Olivier Uliana of STMicroelectronics titled Cerebrus PPA Optimization on the Next-Generation High-End Microcontroller CPU Core. In case you've forgotten what Cadence...

On Tuesday this week, Malcolm Penn of Future Horizons gave one of the three annual presentations on the outlook for the semiconductor industry. I last wrote about a presentation by Malcolm what feels like "recently" but was, in fact, in 2021. That po...

At the RISC-V Summit in December, there were presentations halfway between a keynote and a technical session. known as RISC-V Spotlights. These were presented to the entire group of attendees but were not blessed with the keynote title. Maybe this is...

Coming up at the end of this month is DesignCon, obviously not to be confused with the Design Automation Conference which will be in July as usual. The focus of DesignCon is more on designing systems, meaning printed circuit boards, advanced packagin...

I attended CES 2023 in Las Vegas in the first week of January. You would already know this if you read my first post, CES 2023: AMD, Stellantis, Cadence, and More. One challenge this year was finding things. The two South halls of the convention...

https://youtu.be/gnS8jvfGL2c Made at Levi's Stadium (camera Gary Bengier) Monday: New Year's Day (observed) Tuesday: Offtopic: Thanks Wednesday: CS + Math Thursday: Top Three Things to Watch in 2023 Friday: CES 2023: AMD, Stellantis, Cadence, an...

It is CES in Las Vegas this week. All things consumer electronics. Cadence's base is in the Venetian these days, as I said in my preview post CES 2023 Preview: Come and See Us in the Venetian. That is pretty convenient for me too, since the keynotes ...

It is the start of a new year, 2023, so time for predictions. I'm not going to predict a lot of specific things, but I will predict what I think will be the biggest stories in the semiconductor industry in 2023: The fracturing of the global semicond...

In most domains, a million is a large number. In EDA, a hundred billion is normal, and predictions are for trillion-transistor chips by 2030. If you design a trillion-transistor chip in 1000 days (about 2½ years), that's a billion transis...

Happy New Year! Normally, as you will know if you are a regular reader of Breakfast Bytes, I go offtopic the day before a break. Indeed, I had written this post and intended to run it on Thursday December 22nd. But late on Wednesday, we finally decid...

https://youtu.be/V2368Zo4Tb4 Direct link if it says the video is blocked, Made at Groveland CA (drone pilot Carey) Monday: IEDM Keynote: Ann Kelleher on Future Technology Tuesday: RISC-V Summit Day 2: Krste, Android Wednesday: December...

At the recent CadenceLIVE Europe, Marc Greenberg presented Cadence's portfolio of memory interfaces. I'm going to keep to a relatively high level in this post, although he took deeper dives into many of the interfaces. One particular interfac...

Cadence will be shut down on the last Friday in December, so despite this being only 21st, this is the December update post either updating previous blog posts, or discussing items that don't justify an entire blog post on their ow...

My first post about the recent RISC-V Summit appeared last week: RISC-V Summit 2022. That covered Calista's keynote, some of Qualcomm's keynote, and Lip-Bu Tan's keynote. Krste Asanovic The second day of the recent RISC-V Summit started w...

IEDM 2022 celebrated 75 Years of the Transistor. I wrote about it myself in my post 75th Anniversary of the Transistor. I can't imagine anything else invented in the last 75 years has had as much effect on my life, and probably yours, too. After the ...

https://youtu.be/fvfpclonVzo Made at Deer Hollow Farm (camera Carey) Monday: ChatGPT: "A New Technology Adjusts Your Thinking About Computing" Tuesday: Using Clarity 3D Solver to Analyze 3D Packaging Wednesday: CES 2023 Preview: Come and Se...

Coming up on January 11th is our annual photonics event. This year it is called CadenceCONNECT: Photonics - Riding the Waves Along the Spectrum. As usual, the event will take place in the building 10 auditorium (just follow the event signs)...

The RISC-V Summit took place in December. It was in person and virtual. Clearly, in the world of processors, RISC-V is the most important development of the decade. It has already taken over academia completely. It has a huge footprint in the embedde...