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What Is Zonal Architecture? And Why Is it Upending the Automotive Supply Chain?

Earlier this week I wrote about the electric vehicle (EV) transition, how it is happening…

Paul McLellan
• 7 min read
ota , Automotive , tier-1 , featured , zonal architecture

The Automotive Electric Vehicle Transition

The only really interesting part of the automotive industry is the electric vehicle…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
Automotive , Electrification , featured , ev , nev

Richard Goering, 1952-2023

I have some sad news to report. Richard Goering passed away last month at the age…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
featured , Richard Goering , EETimes
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How Did Cadence Get to Be Good in Analog?

We recently held the annual Mixed Signal Technology Summit. I blogged about it and…

• 4 min read
cadence , diva , composer , analog , Virtuoso , analog mixed signal , OpenAccess

This Year's Phil Kaufman Award Recipient: Wally Rhines

This year's Phil Kaufman award recipient is Wally Rhines. I already knew the big…

• 4 min read
DSP , ti320 , Wally Rhines , walden rhines , Mentor Graphics , Kaufman Award , Texas Instruments , Breakfast Bytes , phil kaufman award , Mentor

The Phil Kaufman Award Dinner Is Later this Month. Who Was Phil Kaufman?

Every year one person in EDA is honored with the Phil Kaufman Award. As it says on…

• 4 min read
SCS , cadence , silicon compilers , sci , Quickturn , Phil Kaufman , Breakfast Bytes , phil kaufman award

Ten Years Ago Self-Driving Cars Couldn't Go Ten Miles

Recently Tesla activated Autopilot for their vehicles, which are equipped with the…

• 3 min read
delphi , darpa grand challenge , Stanford , autonomous vehicle , cmu , google , tesla , self-driving car , Breakfast Bytes

Mixed-Signal Symposium: Mixed Means More Digital

Earlier this week was the Cadence Mixed-Signal Technology Summit. Since I was the…

• 5 min read
Berkeley , analog , Mixed-Signal Technology Summit , mixed signal , analog mixed signal , Breakfast Bytes

Is it Hot? Ask Joules

Ever since Pat Gelsinger, then CTO of Intel, shocked everyone with his power graphs…

• 5 min read
Low Power , RTL , Joules , power , Breakfast Bytes , joules rtl power solution

The Consolidator Makes a Rare Public Appearance: Hock Tan's Top Ten List

On Saturday I attended the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association…

• 5 min read
forecast , Avago , consolidator , broadcom , hock tan , caspa , consolidation , lsi logic

IEEE Computer Society: Automotive Cybersecurity

On the third Thursday of each month the IEEE Computer Society of Silicon Valley has…

• 5 min read
security , Automotive , IEEE , Breakfast Bytes

Emulation: the Key to Virtual Platforms

Between about 2000 and 2010, there were a number of startup companies that attempted…

• 5 min read
virtual platforms , RTL , Palladium , Emulation

Weekly News—October 23rd 2015

ARM Acquires Carbon ARM announced that it had acquired Carbon Design Systems.…

• 3 min read
Western Digital , SanDisk , IoT , KLA-Tencor , Lam Research , ARM , semiconductors

Lawyers, Guns, and Money: An Evening with EDAC on Patents

Next Thursday, October 29, 2015, the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC…

• 5 min read
VLSI , US Patent and Trademark Office , USPTOSV , EDAC , patents , patent litigation , Breakfast Bytes

How Is Google So Good at Recognizing Cats?

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a key technique for image recognition. As…

• 3 min read
performance , Low Power , Tensilica , convolutional neural nets , neural networks , CNN , power , neural nets , image recognition , Breakfast Bytes

I've Got My Personal Portable Communications Equipment. But Where's My Hoverboard…

You have probably seen the Back to the Future trilogy. In Back to the Future II Marty…

• 3 min read
electronics , moore's law , hoverboard , Marty McFly , Back to the Future

One Connector to Rule Them All: USB Type-C

The original USB connector seems to be the only connector where it is always the…

• 5 min read
USB Type-C , DisplayPort , USB , IP subsystem

IEEE Elects EDA Professional as President

When I lived in England, newspapers had a tradition of not mentioning other newspapers…

• 4 min read
Karen Bartleson , EDA standards , Electronic design , IEEE

Weekly News—October 16, 2015

Largest Tech Merger Ever Earlier in the year Avago announced that it was acquiring…

• 2 min read
Intel , Dell , 5nm test chip , imec , EMC , Qualcomm , Breakfast Bytes , Weekly News

Goldilocks and the Three Ways

The two obvious ways to implement a complex algorithm are to write a large amount…

• 4 min read

Memory and Storage: the Wall is Coming Down

It was MemCon this week. Three keynotes, three parallel tracks each with four presentations…

• 4 min read
IP , Memory , MemCon , storage , DRAM , flash memory

Rules for Radicals: Practical Advice for Adopting Formal

This year's Jasper User Group conference finished up with a dose of realism in a…

• 4 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , PMC Sierra , Imagination , Jasper , broadcom , Qualcomm , Paul's Posts , Formal verification

Batterygate, the Scandal that Isn't

If you think power isn’t important then you must have been living under a rock for…

• 5 min read
Apple , Samsung , TSMC , Paul's Posts , power

Thanks for the Memory: How MemCon Got Started

It is MemCon on Tuesday. I talked to David Lin to find out how it all started. He…

• 3 min read
DDR2 , Memory , DDR4 , MemCon , flash , JEDEC , NAND flash , ddrx , DRAM , nor flash , DDR3

Weekly News, October 9th, 2015

TSMC and Samsung Both in iPhone 6s It emerged that for the Apple iPhone 6s and…

• 2 min read
Intel , 5nm test chip , Altera , imec , PMC-Sierra , iPhone 6s

Jasper: the Gold Standard for Formal Verification

It was the Jasper User Group JUG this week. I first went to JUG several years ago…

• 4 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , Jasper , Paul's Posts , Formal verification

Cadence and imec Announce World's First 5nm Tapeout

7nm is already passé it seems! Today Cadence and imec announced the tapeout of the…

• 4 min read
testchip , imec , Innovus , 5nm , 7nm , SAQP , EUV

The Beginning of Breakfast Bytes

Yes, it’s true. The Cadence gravitational field finally pulled me back and I am now…

• 1 min read
Paul McLellan , DAC , Jasper User Group , VSLI
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