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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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Nibbles—Breakfast Bytes Predictions for 2016

Neils Bohr, the physicist (or should that be the quantum mechanic) famously said…

• 3 min read
Automotive , predictions , USB Type-C , CES , SDE , design nodes , Test , 2016 , 3D packaging , system design enablement , Breakfast Bytes , Formal verification

Congratulations Chris Rowen, for He's a Jolly Good (IEEE) Fellow

So the lede is that Chris Rowen has been elected an IEEE Fellow. In a sense it is…

• 4 min read
Chris Rowen , IEEE Fellow , RISC processors , Tensilica , configurable processors

EDAC "Crossing the Chasm" with John Lee

EDAC's Emerging Companies Committee has been organizing evening seminars a couple…

• 6 min read
John Lee , EDAC , EDA standards , Jim Hogan , Ansys

IEDM: the International Electron Devices Meeting

IEDM is a meeting held annually since 1955. Historically, it has alternated between…

• 4 min read
International Electron Devices Meeting , IEDM , semiconductors , Breakfast Bytes

EUV Might Really Happen

I have been a skeptic about whether EUV was going to work. Just in case you have…

• 4 min read
lithography , 5nm test chip , defect , pellicle , 7nm , EUV , Breakfast Bytes

Use the Integrated Flow with US

A couple of years ago, it was clear that the Cadence implementation flow required…

• 4 min read
Genus , full-flow , Joules , Voltus , Innovus , Quantus QRC , Quantus , integrated flow , Breakfast Bytes

Rob Aitken of ARM Research on System Design

I wrote yesterday of how there is a transition going on as system companies discover…

• 2 min read
SDE , system design , Rob Aitken , system design enablement , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Applications Down to Transistors: System Design Enablement

Last year Dan Nenni and I wrote a book on the semiconductor industry through the…

• 5 min read
SDE , fabless , moore's law , system design enablement , Breakfast Bytes , foundry

Front-end Design Summit

Wednesday was the annual Front-end Design Summit at Cadence headquarters. This focuses…

• 4 min read
Genus , Encounter Test , manufacturing test , Joules , front end design summit , Test , front end design , Synthesis , power , Breakfast Bytes

Why Do Layout Designers Say "Stream Out"?

For the same reason we "hang up" our phones. When a layout designer saves a design…

• 6 min read
GDSII , Stream Out , Layout , Breakfast Bytes

Virtuoso: Advance to 10nm, If You Pass Go Collect $200

There are two major discontinuities in the last couple of process nodes—FinFETs and…

• 5 min read
EAD , FinFets , iPVS , Custom Routing , multi-patterning , Virtuoso , 10nm , modgens , color-aware layout , Breakfast Bytes

TSMC 3D. Red and Green Glasses Not Required

I have been taking a look at TSMC's 3D packaging technologies. From numerous presentations…

• 4 min read
CoWoS , 3DIC , info-pop , TSMC , InFO , info_s , Breakfast Bytes

Can You Pass As a Brit? Just Answer 3 Simple Questions

It’s Thankgiving! Happy Thanksgiving if you are reading this on the day. Cadence…

• 9 min read
thanksgiving , lbw , guy fawkes , gunpowder plot , glorious revolution , marmite

Voltus-Fi: Faithful Custom and Analog EMIR and Power Analysis

First things first. Voltus and Voltus-Fi are two separate products. They are both…

• 3 min read
Voltus-Fi , AMS , electromigration , custom , analog , Voltus , Virtuoso , analog mixed signal , IR drop , power , Breakfast Bytes , EMIR

The Design that Made ARM

I sat down with Simon Segars, the CEO of ARM last Friday. As I said yesterday , it…

• 4 min read
Simon Segars , ARM7TDMI , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Happy 25th Birthday, ARM

This week is ARM's 25th anniversary. It is actually on Friday, the 27th, but since…

• 7 min read
ARM processor , Simon Segars , VSLI , ARM

Marie Pistilli Passed Away

Marie Pistilli, who was injured in a car-crash in October (as I included in my first…

• less than a min read

The CDMA Story and Qualcomm

When second generation cell-phone technology, GSM, was developed the biggest issue…

• 4 min read
wireless , GSM , cdma , Qualcomm

Technology Transfer: The Stanford/Berkeley Model

At SEMICON West this year, I attended an interesting presentation by Steven Forrest…

• 4 min read
marc andreessen , two cultures , Stanford , technology transfer , Berkeley , steven forrest , a16z , mosaic , andreeson , a16z podcast , cp snow

How to Do Body Bias with GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX and Innovus Implementation System

Last week Cadence put out a press release that the Cadence implementation flow had…

• 5 min read
ARM Techcon , 22fdx , body bias , implementation , GlobalFoundries , ARM

The Paradox of Open Source

Open source software is software where the source code is fairly freely available…

• 6 min read
closed source , free software , hadoop , android , MontaVista , embedded software , open source , software , free software foundation , linux

Palladium Z1, an Enterprise Server Farm in a Rack

If you put together your dream emulation system, it would have: Infinite throughput…

• 4 min read
virtualization , Enterprise , palladium z1 , Palladium , Emulation , simulation

I Danced with a Nun in a Disco…and the micro:bit

How's that for a click-bait title? But it's true. Back in 1969, the British government…

• 3 min read
BBC , microsoft , Acorn Computer , micro:bit , Open University , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Ethernet: Coming Soon to a Car Near You

Ethernet was invented at the legendary Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) by…

• 5 min read
Automotive , can bus , MOST , ethernet phy , Ethernet , canbus , flexray

ARM's Mike Muller Announces a New Core, a New Instruction Set, and Security Laye…

Mike Muller, ARM's CTO, delivered a little history and a lot of security. Oh, and…

• 4 min read
security , ARM v8 , ARM Techcon , arm cortex-a35 , armv8-M , IoT , Muller , Internet of Things , ARM , Techcon

How Did 3 Engineers Tape Out an ARM IoT Product in 3 Months?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the hottest buzzword (buzzphrase?) in electronics…

• 4 min read
IoT , Internet of Things , ARM , reference platform

Cadence Tool Suite Qualified for 22FDX Reference Flow

Let's pull a paragraph out of the joint Cadence/GF press release from earlier today…

• 4 min read
forward body bias , ARM Techcon , Global Foundries , expert bar , Tempus , 22fdx , 28nm , 20nm , arm cortex , rbb , reverse body bias , gf , Voltus , Innovus , FinFET , arm cortex-a17 , GlobalFoundries , ARM , quantus qrx , fbb , Techcon , FD-SOI

Where Does 5 Really Mean 30? Process Node Naming

In my first real blog here, about the Cadence/imec 5nm announcement, I asked what…

• 3 min read
Intel , process node , Samsung , TSMC , 5nm , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , 10nm , Breakfast Bytes
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