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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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Running the Software for an Embedded System

A big challenge with developing a modern SoC is developing the software. Not so much…

• 6 min read
virtual platform , Palladium , embedded software , Emulation , protium s2 , software development

CDNLive Israel 2019: Celsius, the Dead Sea, Ramallah

The big announcement at CDNLive Israel was during Anirudh's keynote when he announced…

• 5 min read
palestine , CDNLive , cdnlive israel

Sunday Brunch Video for 22nd September 2019

https://youtu.be/6p94sN1fHFY Made at Tel Aviv seafront (camera Carey Guo) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

500th Anniversary of Magellan's Voyage

Earlier this year, on July 20, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first landing…

• 5 min read
exploration , Apollo , magellan

Programming Languages for Embedded Systems

How do you program an embedded system? Say, the code that runs on the control processor…

• 10 min read
swift , programming , Python , programming languages , rust , Matlab

Celsius: Thermal and Electrical Analysis Together at Last

Today at CDNLive Israel, Anirudh Devgan, Cadence's President, announced the Celsius…

• 3 min read
celsius , CDNLive , system analysis , Thermal Analysis , cdnlive israel , electrical-thermal analysis

PCIe Gen 4: It's Official, We're Compliant

Way back in April 2016, I wrote a post about Cadence IP for PCI Express (PCIe) Gen4…

• 3 min read
PCIe 4 , PCIe Gen4 , pcie 3

MLPerf: Benchmarking Machine Learning

Most presentations at the recent HOT CHIPS conference are about actual chips, mostly…

• 6 min read

Sunday Brunch Video for 15th September 2019

https://youtu.be/bcAO52jxk10 Made at SFO (camera Carey Guo) Monday: HOT CHIPS: In…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Intelligent System Design

Yesterday in my post Intelligent Systems , I wrote about how the imperative for differentiated…

• 5 min read
system analysis , pervasive intelligence , design excellence , intelligent system design , system innovation

Intelligent Systems

Cadence's goal is to empower engineers at semiconductor and systems companies to…

• 4 min read
intelligent system design

EDPS Preview 2019

EDPS, the Electronic Design Process Symposium, is coming up next Monday. It will…

• 3 min read
deep learning , 3DIC , EDPS , more than Moore , AI

CDNLive India 2019: NXP and More

Last week I covered Day 1 of CDNLive India . Today it is the turn of verification…

• 6 min read
NXP , CDNLive India , CDNLive

HOT CHIPS: In-DRAM Compute

Something that has been discussed for years is the fact that we could add processors…

• 4 min read
pim , hot chips , processor in memory

Sunday Brunch Video for 8th September 2019

https://youtu.be/AvimlRMDZng Made at Cadence parking lot (camera Steve Brown) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

CDNLive India 2019: Mediatek and More

If you live in California, as I do, then India is a long way away. It is 11½ hours…

• 5 min read
CDNLive India , CDNLive , mediatek

Pervasive Intelligence

The biggest change in technology over the last five or ten years is the sudden kicking…

• 2 min read
pervasive intelligence , design excellence , intelligent system design

Ten Reasons to Attend CDNLive Israel

CDNLive Israel is coming up later this month on September 18 at the David Intercontinental…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , cdnlive israel

Conformal Litmus

One of the earliest science experiments I can remember doing was crushing red cabbage…

• 2 min read
conformal , litmus , Equivalence Checking

HOT CHIPS: The Tesla Full Self-Driving Computer

On April 22, Tesla held its Autonomy Day. They announced their "Self-Driving Computer…

• 4 min read
Automotive , hotchips , tesla

Sunday Brunch Video for 1st September 2019

https://youtu.be/_DiWWBDQbGc Made at CDNLive India (camera Corrie Callenbach) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Labor Day Off-Topic: Have You Been to Suomi?

If you've been in the semiconductor, electronics, or mobile business for some time…

• 5 min read
off-topic

HOT CHIPS: Intel

At HOT CHIPS in August, Intel was everywhere. The two announcements that I'm going…

• 3 min read
Intel , spring hill , deep learning , Vision P6 , accelerator , Tensilica , AI

CDNLive China 2019

A couple of weeks ago it was CDNLive China in Shanghai. (To read about how I got…

• 6 min read
CDNLive , cdnlive china

Ford: Automotive OEM to Software Manufacturer?

Soon after Marc Andreesen founded the venture capital firm Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z…

• 7 min read
Automotive , ADAS , autonomous vehicles , automobil elektronik kongress , Ford

HOT CHIPS: Chipletifying Designs

At HOT CHIPS last week, one of the themes that ran through several of the presentations…

• 3 min read
chiplet , hot chips

Sunday Brunch Video for 25th August 2019

https://youtu.be/RUWt6mOAUUU Made at EBC (camera Sean) Monday: HOT CHIPS 2019 …

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

HOT CHIPS: Microsoft Hololens 2

The very last presentation at HOT CHIPS earlier this week was by Elene Terry of Microsoft…

• 3 min read
hololens , microsoft , Tensilica
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