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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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Gall's Law and Big Ball of Mud

Gall's Law says: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved…

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design patterns , software development

Dynamic Duo 2: The Sequel

There's a story, probably apocryphal, about a screenwriter pitching a movie in Hollywood…

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dynamic duo , prototyping , protium x2 , palladium z2 , Emulation , FPGA prototyping , software development , firmware development

Offtopic: Podcasts

Tomorrow is another Cadence global holiday. None of us will be working and Breakfast…

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offtopic , podcast

The First Commercial Computer Shipped 70 Years Ago Today

Today is the 70th anniversary of a very significant event in all our lives, even…

• 5 min read
first computer , univac

Intel IDM 2.0

You've probably read in the press that Intel's new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, laid out his…

• 6 min read
Intel , icf , idm 2.0 , intel custom foundry , foundry

Stopping Online Fraud

I attended a webcast on Anti-Fraud organized by the RSA Conference in the leadup…

• 6 min read
security , ransomware , rsa

Best of CadenceLIVE 2020: Hyperscale Data Centers

There is something in philosophy known as the Sorites paradox. If you have a heap…

• 4 min read
hyperscale , cadencelive , digital full flow , ARM

National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

The (U.S.) National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recently published…

• 6 min read
artificial intelligence , uscai , microelectronics , AI

Verilog HDL and Its Ancestors and Descendants

Most conferences take place annually, or in some cases every two years. The History…

• 8 min read
SystemVerilog , Superlog , HILO , Verilog , dcvon 2021 , Imperas , DVcon , Co-Design Automation

DeepChip Best of 2020: Xcelium ML

Recently, I wrote about #2a on Cooley's Best of 2020 list, which was Cadence's vManager…

• 3 min read
deepchip , xcelium ml , john cooley , verification

Sunday Brunch Video for 21st March 2021

https://youtu.be/i96zZHBFnTQ Made in my kitchen (camera Ziyue Zhang) Monday: The…

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Offtopic: Man Wife Lung Slices (夫妻肺片)

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• 6 min read
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DeepChip Best of 2020: vManager

We just finished 2020 (and let's hope 2021 is a better year). Every year, John Cooley…

• 4 min read
deepchip , john cooley , vManager , verification

Announcing Sigrity X

There are many different computational software algorithms used in EDA. One challenge…

• 6 min read
x-technology , computational software , Signal Integrity , Sigrity

The History of PCIe: Getting to Version 6

PCIe, or Peripheral Component Interconnect Express which nobody ever says, was an…

• 6 min read
pcie gen 5 , PCIe

Sunday Brunch Video for 14th March 2021

https://youtu.be/bzgotynPvs8 Made at Fry's Electronics in San Jose (camera Ziyue…

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The Carrington Event: When Will We Have Another?

Back in the pre-Cadence days when I had the EDAgraffiti blog, I wrote about the Carrington…

• 7 min read
solar flare , carrington event , coronal mass ejection , cme

Best of CadenceLIVE 2020: The Keynotes

The first CadenceLIVE 2021 will be CadenceLIVE Americas on June 8-9. It will be a…

• 1 min read
cadencelive 2020 , cadencelive

Paul Cunningham's DVCon Keynote: Verification Throughput = Engines × Logistics

At DVCon 2021, the keynote was presented by Cadence's Paul Cunningham who is basically…

• 7 min read
computational logistics , dvcon 2021 , DVcon , verification

Let’s Talk About Chiplets, Baby

At CadenceLIVE Americas 2020, one of the most viewed videos was by Samsung Foundry…

• 3 min read
chiplet , hbi , 3DIC , samsung foundry , d2d

Your Best Buys Are Always at Fry's

A Silicon Valley institution has shut down. Fry's electronics says on their website…

• 5 min read
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Sunday Brunch Video for 7th March 2021

https://youtu.be/71UiX5Ce9cE Made autonomously driving in San Francisco Monday:…

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Bootstraps

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titan , vax , interdata , google , bootstrap

Lip-Bu Tan Honored with SVBJ C-Suite Award

For the last few years, the Silicon Valley Business Journal has honored occupants…

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Computational Software for Cyber-Physical System Design

The recent 34th International Conference on VLSI Design, also known as VLSID, was…

• 5 min read
computational software , vlsid , vlsid 2021 , cyber physical systems , India

Cruising Through San Francisco with No Driver

You probably have heard that Waymo has completely driverless (no safety driver) taxis…

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Update: Hogan, Mars, Australia, Solarwinds

I don't normally do these updates this frequently, and never before have I produced…

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australia , solarwinds , Facebook , perseverance , Mars

Sunday Brunch Video for 28th February 2021

https://youtu.be/6wgF8p76x5g Made my personal cloud datacenter Monday: Arm/Cadence…

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