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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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Tensilica HiFi DSPs with Dolby Atmos for Soundbars

Do you know what a soundbar is? Years ago, if you wanted to build a good home theater…

• 4 min read
HiFi , Tensilica

3G and 4G: The Internet Arrives

In posts over the last couple of weeks, I covered 1G and 2G mobile: 1G Mobile:…

• 7 min read
3g , 5G , mobile

John Park's Webinar on Chiplets

Recently Cadence's John Park presented a webinar on Design Methodologies for Next…

• 6 min read
SiP , featured , advanced packaging , 3DIC , OrbitIO , intelligent system design

Happy Birthday Florence Nightingale: Nurse, Statistician, Feminist

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the first woman member of the Royal…

• 7 min read
florence nightingale , statistics , women in science

Why Create an SoC?

I've been in the semiconductor and EDA industries for nearly forty years. One thing…

• 10 min read
SoC , design , risk

Sunday Brunch Video for 10th May 2020

https://youtu.be/feK4sISKChA Made on Communication Hill, San Jose (camera Carey…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Hearables and Earbuds

Do you have a set of Bluetooth earbuds yet? If not, you will. The iPhone was the…

• 5 min read
featured , HiFi , Tensilica , hearables , earbuds

2G: Mobile Goes Digital

In last week's post, 1G Mobile: AMPS, TOPS, C-450, Radiocom 2000, and All Those Japanese…

• 12 min read
5G , GSM , 2g , mobile

Computational Software: A New Paradigm for EDA Tools

Cadence has a new white paper out on Computational Software . I've written on these…

• 6 min read
computational software , intelligent system design , Breakfast Bytes

Wally Rhines: Predicting Semiconductor Business Trends After Moore's Law

I recently attended a webinar presented by Wally Rhines about his new book, Predicting…

• 7 min read
Wally Rhines , moore's law , book

Signoff in the Cloud

Here's a nightmare. You sign off your design with the usual margins. It is a 7nm…

• 3 min read
Tempus , Voltus , power integrity signoff , signoff , timing signoff

Sunday Brunch Video for 3rd May 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: EDA101 Video…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Linley Processor Conference 2020 Keynote

The Linley Processor Conference always opens with a keynote by Linley Gwenapp giving…

• 6 min read
deep learning , linley processor conference , Linley , neural networks

1G Mobile: AMPS, TOPS, C-450, Radiocom 2000, and All Those Japanese Ones

You can't read anything about technology these days without reading about 5G. But…

• 5 min read
5G , amps , nmt , 1g , mobile

RAMAC Park and the Origin of the Disk Drive

Did you know that there is a park in San Jose named after a disk drive? Actually…

• 7 min read
IBM , GlobalFoundries , ramac

Weekend Update

Okay, it's not the weekend, and this isn't Saturday Night Live. But it is an update…

• 7 min read
john conway , zombie , satellite

EDA101 Video

Years ago, before I rejoined Cadence, I developed a presentation called EDA101 that…

• 2 min read
video , eda101

Sunday Brunch Video for 26th April 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in my living room (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Fourth 4G…

• less than a min read
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"A Lack of Clarity Could Put the Brakes on Any Journey to Success"

I'm not a big fan of the J-school approach to writing an article where you start…

• 5 min read
deepchip , 3D analysis , Signal Integrity , clarity

15 Years Ago Today, the First Video Was Uploaded to YouTube

As it says in the title to this blog post, the first video was uploaded to YouTube…

• 5 min read
video , YouTube , Tensilica

Legato: Making the Bathtub Wider and Deeper

Yesterday's post Automotive Reliability: The Bathtub Curve introduced automotive…

• 5 min read
Automotive , legato , FITS , reliability

Automotive Reliability: The Bathtub Curve

There are a lot of aspects of automotive reliability. The same goes for aerospace…

• 4 min read
Automotive , legato , functional safety , analog , aging , FITS

Fourth 4G Network Goes Live in Japan

So your first thought on reading the title to this post might be that having to stay…

• 6 min read
5G , 4G , mobile , o-ran

Sunday Brunch Video for 19th April 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in my living room (camera Carey Guo) Monday: John Park…

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sunday brunch

It's a SLAM Dunk Programming the Vision Q7 DSP

The Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP is the sixth-generation vision and AI DSP. It has an…

• 5 min read
vision Q7 , embedded vision , SLAM , Tensilica

Bringing Clarity of Signal to High-Performance Connector Design

I recently wrote a white paper on Signal Integrity for 112G, which I'll post about…

• 5 min read
return loss , Signal Integrity , crosstalk , clarity

HiFi DSPs - Not Just for Music Anymore

When the Tensilica HiFi DSP family was first created, the focus was all on low-power…

• 4 min read
hifi 5 , Audi , HiFi , Tensilica , tensorflow lite

The Furthest Man Has Been from Earth

What is the furthest that man has been from Earth? And who? If I tell you that today…

• 4 min read
Apollo , space
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