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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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August Update: DAC Keynote, CHIPS, CXL, V2V, EE Times

It's that time again, the last Friday of the month. Here are lots of items that are…

• 4 min read
CXL , dac59 , EETimes , dsrc , chips act

How to Win the America's Cup with CFD

People have been designing boats for literally thousands of years. Triremes, fishing…

• 7 min read
CFD , FINE Marine , Computational Fluid Dynamics , america's cup , fidelity

CadenceLIVE: Characterizing Libraries with Liberate and CloudBurst

At the recent CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley, Scott Chang, the CEO of M31 Technologies…

• 5 min read
liberate trio , library characterization , cloudburst , Liberate , cadencecloud

What Does Cadence Do?

I was recently on a Zoom call about search engine optimization where we discussed…

• 5 min read
EDA , semiconductor IP

CadenceLIVE: Using Helium at NVIDIA

We announced Helium in September last year, and I wrote about the product in my post…

• 2 min read
cadencelive 2022 , NVIDIA , cadencelive , helium

Sunday Brunch Video for 21st August 2022

https://youtu.be/YWpcaIEkw7M Made at Lake Tahoe (camera Carey) Monday: 75 Years…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Whatever Happened to 450mm Wafers?

When I started at VLSI Technology in the early 1980s, our fab used 5" wafers (150mm…

• 5 min read
405mm wafers , 18" wafers , g450c

UCIe PHY and Controller—To Die For

UCIe is the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express, a type of die-to-die (d2d) serial…

• 3 min read
ucie , system in package , SiP , chiplet , ucie controller , ucie phy

PK: A Museum for the Biggest Telecommunication Hub in the World

In 1920, the little building below was the biggest telecommunication hub in the world…

• 5 min read
telegraph , museum , telecommunications

75 Years of Indian Independence

Today is Independence Day in India. But more than that, today, in 2022, it is the…

• 8 min read
cadencelive india , India

Sunday Brunch Video for 14th August 2022

https://youtu.be/8_-4j3lnjZI Made in Stevens Creek County Park Monday: Metaverse…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Convergence of Mechanical and Electronics in Automotive Design

Someone once said, “Mechanical engineers design the automotive machine, electrical…

• 5 min read
Automotive , multiphysics

Electronics and Its Role in Climate Change

Sustainability has become a “scorching topic” (pun intended) in discussions I have…

• 5 min read

Commercial Air Travel at Mach 1.7

Commercial air travel at twice the speed of sound is possible with the latest Overture…

• 4 min read
CFD , Cadence Oncloud , Aerospace , Pointwise , Faranborough airshow , CadenceFidelity , fastest airliner , NUMECA , Concorde , timetravel

Metaverse for Semiconductor Design: What to Expect?

Semiconductor is very crucial for metaverse design and now metaverse is helping semiconductors…

• 5 min read

The Father of Breakfast Bytes

Ian McLellan, 1928-2022 I will be away all next week in England. As you might guess…

• 6 min read
offtopic

Cooley Troublemakers

Every year at the Design Automation Conference (DAC), John Cooley organizes what…

• 12 min read
59dac , DAC , troublemaker , cooley troublemaker panel

Who to Read on Semiconductors

It's great that you're here. That means you read Breakfast Bytes, at least sometimes…

• 4 min read
fabricated knowledge , semianalysis , CDNLive , semiconductor packaging news , munro associates , ic insights , digits to dollars

What Is the Role of the EDA Community in Future Life Science Breakthroughs?

Today's post is about the life-science and EDA panel that took place at the recent…

• 10 min read
59dac , DAC , life science , Design Automation Conference

Designing Arm Server Chips the Cadence Way

I've written a lot about Arm over the years. My most recent post was simply Cadence…

• 1 min read
arm server , ampere , HPC , ARM

Sunday Brunch Video for 31st July 2022

https://youtu.be/bym7Az0BZdY Made in my Mini Monday: Cadence Expands into Molecular…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

July Update: ST, GF, Arm, GPUs...and just CHIPS

Finally, a monthly update which appears in its advertised slot on the last Friday…

• 4 min read
GPU , mclaren , ST Microelectronics , GlobalFoundries , ARM , chips act

AEK: Powerpoint Is Easy—Change is Hard

I wrote my first post about Automobil Elektronik Kongress 2022 earlier this week…

• 7 min read
Automotive , aek , ludwigsburg , automobil elektronik kongress

AEK: Semiconductors: The Base for the Software-Defined Car

At this year's Automobil Elektronik Kongress, there was a panel session titled Semiconductors…

• 10 min read
risc-v , NXP , mercedes-benz , ARM , automobil elektronik kongress

Automobil Elektronik Kongress 2022

For me, the must-attend event to understand what is going on in the automobile industry…

• 5 min read
Automotive , automobile elektronik kongress , aek , ludwigsburg

Cadence Expands into Molecular Simulation with Acquisition of OpenEye Scientific

This morning, Cadence announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to…

• 3 min read
openeye scientific , openeye , orion , molecular simulation

CadenceLIVE: Pegasus on AWS, Let Physical Verification Fly

At CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley, Ahmed Elzeftawi of AWS and Dibyendu Goswami of Cadence…

• 4 min read
Physical verification , pegasus , DRC , cloud , aws , cadence cloud

ITF USA: Luc Van den hove on Deep Tech

The afternoon of the Monday of SEMICON West is always the Imec Technology Forum …

• 6 min read
itf usa 2022 , imec , itf
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