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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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Blue Gecko, Designed with Cadence Mixed-Signal, Low-Power Flow

Blue Gecko is a system on chip (SoC) created by Silicon Labs to provide wireless…

• 1 min read
AMS , Tempus , Silicon Labs , blue gecko , Voltus , bluetooth , Spectre , Innovus , mixed signal , zigbee

EDAC Becomes the Electronic System Design Alliance

Last night, Bob Smith, the executive director of what was EDAC, announced the new…

• 5 min read
robert smith , ESDA , semi , embedded software , bob smith , Semiconductor , semiconductor IP , EDAC , Breakfast Bytes , esd alliance

Memory Standards and the Future

I sat down and talked with Amjad Qureshi recently He is vice president of research…

• 3 min read
Memory , DDR4 , LPDDR4 , JEDEC , HBM , Denali , DDR , amjad qureshi

Encryption: Why Backdoors Are a Bad Idea

I have always had a passing interest in encryption and security. My PhD is on network…

• 7 min read
vlsi technology , imessage , Apple , clipper , encryption , iOS , granitephone , backdoor , Breakfast Bytes

A Brief History of Cadence: the Post-Costello Years

Through the 1990s, Cadence made lots of smaller acquisitions. In 1997, Joe Costello…

• 2 min read
Costello , cadence , Bingham , Lip-Bu Tan , mergers , history , fister , Harding

Moore's Law Slowing? Don't Tell TSMC

TSMC is a manufacturing powerhouse. It has twice the capacity of any other non-memory…

• 4 min read
cycle time , hvm , gigafab , TSMC , 16FFC , n7 , n10 , 7nm , 10nm , days per layer , nanjing , Breakfast Bytes , volume ramp

CDNLive: It's Only Two Weeks Away

In two weeks time (or a fortnight as we say in Britain) is CDNLive Silicon Valley…

• 1 min read
packaging , CDNLive , custom design , Power Integrity , Mixed-Signal , Tensilica , Signal Integrity , Qualcomm , Digital Implementation , PCB design , front end design , signoff , GlobalFoundries , CDNLive Silicon Valley , power , System Verification

Andy Grove, RIP

Andy Grove, co-founder and long-time CEO of Intel, passed away on Monday. He was…

• 3 min read
Intel , only the paranoid survive , Fairchild , high output management , andy grove

EDPS: Dolphins and FinFETs

The Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS) has been held in late April or early…

• 3 min read
Low Power , Electronic Design Process , multi-die , Monterey , EDPS , cyber security

TSMC Technology Symposium: Process Status

At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium, various speakers gave details of the various…

• 6 min read
Automotive , specialty processes , IoT , TSMC , <7nm , InFO , 16FFC , n7 , n10 , Breakfast Bytes , 16FF+

TSMC Technology Symposium: Four Strategic Markets

When Willie Sutton was asked by the judge why he kept robbing banks, he said "because…

• 3 min read
Automotive , IoT , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , 7ff , 16ff , 10FF , 16nm , HPC , n7 , mobile , n10 , 7nm , 10nm , n16

Dark Silicon: Not a Character from Star Wars

Dark Silicon may sound like a character from the latest Star Wars movie, but it actually…

• 6 min read
Dennard scaling , Dark Silicon , moore's law , dennard , multicore

EDAC Becomes...You Have to Be There to Be the First to Know

When Bob Smith took over as the Executive Director of EDAC, I called him up and one…

• 2 min read
bob smith , EDA Consortium , EDAC , Breakfast Bytes

The Economist on the End of Moore's Law

"The number of people predicting the end of Moore's Law doubles every two years.…

• 3 min read
Intel , The Economist , moore's law , FinFET

A Brief History of Cadence: The Solomon-Costello Era

Cadence has grown from a small startup to a $1.7B corporation. Its history includes…

• 3 min read
Jim Solomon , ECAD , Joe Costello , SDA

Tensilica Has Its Own Track at CDNLive Silicon Valley

Tensilica products are a bigger business than many people realize. The product line…

• 2 min read
IP , CDNLive , processor , Tensilica , Xtensa , DSPs

DVCon Keynote: the Past and Future of Verification

Last week was DVCon, the design and verification conference. Despite the D standing…

• 5 min read
SystemVerilog , Wally Rhines , formal , Verilog , Emulation , DVcon , Rhines , simulation , verification

EDA in the Cloud: Stormy Weather

SoC design groups don't do clouds. True, they take advantage of some of the underlying…

• 4 min read
security , EDA , cloud , Breakfast Bytes , cloud computing

Turing Award; Google's First Crash

Turing Award 2016 The highest award in computer science, sometimes referred to…

• 3 min read
rsa , public key cryptography , turing award , google car , cryptography , turing , alan turing , diffie helman

Automatic Testbench Assembly

Every so often there is a change in the level where design gets done and, thus, a…

• 4 min read
automatic testbench assembly , uvm , IP-XACT , VIP , Socrates , ARM , verification

embedded world: Baby You Can Drive My Car

embedded world is a large conference held every February in Nürnberg, Germany (about…

• 5 min read
ECU , Automotive Ethernet , autonomous cars , Tensilica , Embedded World

Barcelona MWC: Cadence, Vision, Audio, USB Type-C

Cadence has been at Mobile World Congress all week. Actually they are still there…

• 4 min read
lumia , USB Type-C , mwc16 , Mobile World Congress , HiFi , convolutional neural network , MWC , Tensilica , CNN

Barcelona MWC: ARM, Virtual Reality, Formula 1

Sometimes a little slip of the tongue gives away a deeper truth. One of those happened…

• 6 min read
Simon Segars , barcelona , gsma , Mobile World Congress , vr , lewis hamilton , MWC , formula one , Qualcomm , formula 1 , ARM , Breakfast Bytes , sk telecom

Barcelona MWC: Zuckerberg Interview

The last event of the day at Mobile World Congress was an interview with Mark Zuckerberg…

• 5 min read
Oculus , mwc16 , barcelona , Facebook , MWC , virtual reality , drones , zuckerberg

Barcelona MWC: 5G and Disruption

I am in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. They won't give me a press pass since…

• 6 min read
5G , mwc16 , barcelona , at&t , Mobile World Congress , Ericsson , MWC , ARM

Learning is the New Programming: Neural Nets

Whenever I hear of "deep learning," it makes me think of Deep Thought, the computer…

• 4 min read
deep learning , embedded vision , learning , Tensilica , vision , neural networks , CNN , neural nets , embedded neural nets

Automotive Test, How to Use Just Two Pins

Automotive chips often suffer from a limited chip interface in which most of the…

• 4 min read
Automotive , two pin test , JTAG , tap , manchester encoding , tap controller , low pin count test

Internet of Things: How Will They Be Built?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is not really a market, it is a catchall term for devices…

• 3 min read
security , IoT , MIPI , CSI , encryption , wearables , fitness tracker , Internet of Things , drones , FitBit , power
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