Breakfast Bytes: Post #150

This is the 150th blog post here at Breakfast Bytes since I arrived at Cadence in early October. Since you are reading this, however you got here, then you already know Breakfast Bytes is a blog on the Cadence website. I cover a wide range of topics affecting the EDA, IP, and semiconductor industries from lithography and process stuff at the lowest level up to embedded software and end markets at the highest level. If you read the blog every day, you won't miss much going on in the industry. I go to conferences to keep up to date (so you don't have to). Since being at Cadence, I've covered:

• Memcon
• International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)
• Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
• Mobile World Congress (MWC)
• Embedded World
• DesignCon
• DVCon
• Open Server Summit (OSS)
• Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS)
• Linley Microprocessor Conference for Data Centers
• Linley Microprocessor Conference for IoT
• CDNLive Silicon Valley
• CDNLive EMEA
• ...and probably some others I've forgotten

Here are some things that you might not know or have noticed:

There is a list of the most recent blog posts on the front page of cadence.com and almost always one or two of them is a Breakfast Bytes post since it appears daily.

We put out a weekly email at the start of each week listing the posts from the week before. You can click on the title in the email to go straight there. But here's the catch. We sometimes send the email to a wide audience so that people know it exists, but if you want to receive it reliably then you need to subscribe to it. You can do that by going to the bottom of any Cadence email and clicking on the link to the subscription center. You can then make sure the Breakfast Bytes box is checked (and any other emails that you choose to receive).

There is a box to the upper right below my photograph that lets you put in your email and receive an email each day a new Breakfast Bytes blog post is published (which is normally every weekday). Like the post office: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this blogger from the swift completion of my appointed rounds. Also like the post office, no posts on public hoiidays. There is also an RSS feed there if anyone uses that sort of reader.

You can click on the little red Breakfast Bytes logo at the top of each post and it will take you to a listing of the last 25 posts with their title and the first few words. You can scan the titles and click on whichever ones interest you to go to the posts themselves. You can also click on the words "Breakfast Bytes" in the middle of the "Home > Community > Blogs > Breakfast Bytes > Title" that occurs above each post. There is one there right now, just above this post.

You can also follow me on Twitter (by clicking on the little Twitter box at the end of each blog, or just by following @paulmclellan) and I tweet out a little bit about each blog post sometime during the morning. Or you can go to the hashtag #breakfastbytes,  which I always use in those tweets.

At the end of each post (at least recently) are "previous" and "next" links that will take you to the previous day's post, and to the next day's post. So it is easy to work your way back from the present day, or to work your way forward from any post.

Breakfast Bytes, fresh every morning.

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