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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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Andrew Kahng and Matthew Morrison on Industry and Academia

I attended two presentations on the academic track at the recent CadenceLIVE Americas…

• 6 min read
DAC , ucsd , academia , andrew kahng , physical design , notre dame , matthew morrison , HLS

Sunday Brunch Video for 6th September 2020

https://youtu.be/bj1-b3YpuXg Made in "Costa Rica" Monday: Cadence Wins Texas Instruments…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Labor Day Offtopic: Microroasting Coffee

Labor Day is coming up on Monday. Friday is also a Cadence holiday and Breakfast…

• 6 min read
offtopic , off topic , coffee

CadenceLIVE India 2020 Preview

In a normal year, I would already have my plane ticket to fly to Bangalore for CadenceLIVE…

• 3 min read
cadencellive india , cadencelive

InspectAR: Augmented Reality in Newfoundland

I covered Anirudh's CadenceLIVE keynote in my post Anirudh's Keynote: A New Product…

• 3 min read
PCB , inspectar , augmented reality

Cadence Wins Texas Instruments' Supplier Excellence Award

I attended the online ceremony recently in which Texas Instruments (TI) formally…

• 4 min read
analog , digital , semiconductor IP , Texas Instruments , TI

Sunday Brunch Video for 30th August 2020

https://youtu.be/IwA132i-R80 Made in "an aquarium" Monday: Under the Hood of Xcelium…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

TSMC: Specialty Processes and Specialty Packaging

Last Monday was the TSMC Technology Summit 2020. Virtual, of course. I covered that…

• 5 min read
5G , RF , non-volatile memory , CoWoS , CIS , specialty processes , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , InFO

TSMC Technology Symposium: All the Processes, All the Fabs

Last Monday it was the TSMC Technology Symposium, held virtually of course. Today…

• 5 min read
n5 , specialty technologies , n4 , n2 , n3 , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , n7 , n6

HOT CHIPS Server and Laptop Processors: Intel, AMD, IBM, Marvell

At the recent HOT CHIPS, the first day was dedicated to general-purpose processors…

• 8 min read
Intel , AMD , x86 , laptop , hot chips , Marvell , ARM , datacenter

Cadence Certified on TSMC N3, Ultralink on N6, and 3DFabric

Yesterday was it TSMC Technology Symposium. Normally this would have been held face…

• 3 min read
n5 , CoWoS , n3 , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , InFO , n7 , n6 , d2d , n16 , n28

Under the Hood of Xcelium ML

At the recent CadenceLIVE Americas, Yosinori (Yoshi) Watanabe presented what he titled…

• 5 min read
featured , xcelium ml , machine learning , xcelium , simulation

Sunday Brunch Video for 23rd August 2020

https://youtu.be/LIKlevqCB-U Made in front of my TV (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Alberto…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Anirudh's Keynote: A New Product...and an Acquisition

Anirudh Devgan, Cadence's President, gave the keynote to open the second day of CadenceLIVE…

• 3 min read
cadencelive 2020 , cadencelive americas , Anirudh Devgan , cadencelive

HOT CHIPS: Scaling out Deep Learning Training

The annual HOT CHIPS conference took place on August 17-18. Of course, it was virtual…

• 10 min read
deep learning , scaling , NVIDIA , parallelism

Thermal Analysis of Protium X1

There's a phrase in software development "eat your own dogfood". In fact, there's…

• 4 min read
celsius , Protium , FPGA prototyping , thermal

Climbing Annapurna to the Clouds

One of the keynotes at last week's CadenceLIVE Americas 2020 was by Nafea Bshara…

• 4 min read
nitro , EDA , cloud , annapurna , aws , cadence cloud , gravitron

Alberto's Keynote: Cadence and Academia

On the last day of CadenceLIVE 2020, there was a keynote by Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli…

• 4 min read
Berkeley , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Sunday Brunch Video for 16th August 2020

https://youtu.be/7W55PNo-SoI Made in "CadenceLIVE Lounge" (camera me) Monday: 120th…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

CadenceLIVE 2020: As It Happened

CadenceLIVE 2020 Americas took place virtually earlier this week, spread across Tuesday…

• 4 min read
Facebook , Lip-Bu Tan , annapurna , aws , datacenter

Computational Logistics

General Omar Bradley famously said: “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics…

• 3 min read
computational logistics , computational software , verification

Xcelium ML: Black-Belt Verification Engineer in a Tool

What if I told you I knew someone who could improve your regression efficiency: make…

• 4 min read
deep learning , xcelium ml , machine learning , DVcon , xcelium , simulation

Cadence Executives on Computational Software

CadenceLIVE starts today, Tuesday, August 11, and runs through Thursday. One thing…

• 3 min read
computational software , cadencelive

120th Anniversary of Hilbert's Problems

The computational software algorithms used in EDA are fundamentally mathematical…

• 3 min read
hilbert's problems , computational software , millennium prize problems

Weekend Update 2

This is my second update post where I cover things that I have covered before, and…

• 2 min read

Rigid-Flex

Rigid-flex sounds like something that might be a Crossfit workout-of-the-day. But…

• 5 min read
PCB , Rigid-Flex , Allegro

Why Attend CadenceLIVE Americas?

We renamed our user conference to CadenceLIVE (from CDNLive) just in time for it…

• 5 min read
CDNLive , cadencelive 2020 , cadencelive americas , cadencelive

Accellera Functional Safety

This is my last post about DAC 2020. During DAC Accellera had a workshop about functional…

• 8 min read
Automotive , functional safety , Accellera , fusa
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