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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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The Return of Breakfast Bytes

If you are an avid follower of Breakfast Bytes, and of course, you should be, you…

• 2 min read
covid

PCIe 6.0 Standard Ratified...and Cadence's Implementation

The big news about PCIe 6.0 is that the specification has been released by the PCI…

• 6 min read
pcie 6 , PCIe , pcie version 6.0

Tensilica Security

2021 was famous for some of the worst security issues (accompanied by obligatory…

• 4 min read
security , Tensilica , Xtensa , beyond semiconductor

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Software, and Chip Design

There are a lot of commonalities between computational fluid dynamics (CFD), software…

• 5 min read
CFD , computational software , EDA , software analysis

Offtopic: Headlines

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Breakfast Bytes will not appear and so today…

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offtopic

Jasper User Group Best Paper 2021

The annual Jasper User Group was held in November. I've already written several posts…

• 8 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , ARM , JasperGold

The State of the RISC-V Union, part II

This is part 2 of my post on DAC and RISC-V from December. The first post is here…

• 7 min read
risc-v , risc-v summit

DAC...and the State of the RISC-V Union

Due to the pandemic, events that normally occur earlier in the year all piled up…

• 4 min read
DAC , risc-v , risc-v summit , semi , Design Automation Conference

CES 2022...in Person but Not Many People

CES was and is officially hybrid, with some events on-site in Las Vegas and some…

• 4 min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , ces 2022

TSMC OIP: 3DFabric (Advanced Packaging)

At the recent 2021 TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum, there were two special presentations…

• 4 min read
OIP , 3DIC , TSMC , soic

Photonics, Let's Try that Again

If this post seems like a bit of déja vu, that's because it is. The 6th Cadence Photonics…

• 3 min read
cadenceconnect , silicon photonics , photonics

TSMC OIP 2021: N3 HPC

At the recent TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum, there were two special presentations by TSMC…

• 4 min read
n3 , TSMC , n3 hpc , DTCO

2022 Is the International Year of Glass...and Artisanal Fisheries

Happy New Year! It's 2022, and I like to ease into the year gently and see what this…

• 6 min read
Optical , fiberoptic , photonics , iyog2022 , iyafa2022

Sunday Brunch Video for 26th December 2021

https://youtu.be/4FrodxxmPxQ Made in Catskills NY (camera Carey) Monday: Log4J:…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Offtopic: Christmas Crackers

UPDATE: Cadence will not attend the Consumer Electronics Show in-person as originally…

• 4 min read
offtopic

December Update: NVIDIA/Arm, Space, Geography, and More

It's the last Friday of the month so time for the December update. But actually,…

• 4 min read
NVIDIA , geography , update , ARM , james webb telescope

CES 2022: Cadence Will Be there In-Person with Lots of Tensilica Applications

UPDATE: This post is out of date since Cadence will not be attending CES in person…

• 3 min read
Consumer Electronics , CES , audio , HiFi , radar , Tensilica , vision , ADAS

Log4J: 2021 Ends the Same Way It Began

2021 opened with the discovery of the Solar Winds breach, which I wrote about on…

• 4 min read
security , etay maor , cato networks , log4j , nist

What Is an LFP Battery? A 4680?

On September 9th, Tesla held a "Battery Day." Elon Musk also gave an update on the…

• 9 min read
Automotive , electric vehicles , tesla , battery , evs

Anirudh Recognized with the 2021 Phil Kaufman Award

This morning, the ESD Alliance of SEMI and IEEE CEDA announced that our new CEO,…

• 5 min read
Kaufman Award , CEDA , ieee ceda , Anirudh Devgan , Phil Kaufman , esd alliance

The Old Order Changeth: Anirudh Becomes Cadence's CEO Today

Today, Cadence has a new CEO as Anirudh Devgan takes the baton from Lip-Bu Tan. In…

• 4 min read
Lip-Bu Tan , Anirudh Devgan , CEO

The Outlook for Semiconductors...Especially in Cars

At the recent SEMICON West event, there was a media luncheon, which sounds rather…

• 6 min read

Costello's DAC Keynote

On the Wednesday of DAC, Joe Costello was back giving a keynote. The last time was…

• 10 min read
DAC , Costello , keynote , Design Automation Conference

Thermal in Data Centers

You've probably heard that datacenters worldwide consume a huge amount of energy…

• 6 min read
Protium , Palladium , Voltus , thermal , power , datacenter

Always-On Devices

One problem with battery-powered devices is that we increasingly expect them to interact…

• 5 min read
always on , vision p1 , Tensilica , aon

The Cadence DAC Theatre...in Your Living Room

Historically at DAC, a large part of the booth was taken up by the Cadence Theatre…

• 1 min read
DAC , videos , dac theatre

Cadence Endowments in Academia

Cadence has a long history of involvement with academia, going all the way back to…

• 5 min read
MIT , Stanford , Berkeley , cmu , fellowships

Automotive Supply Chains

I'm sure you've heard that there are lots of supply chain issues. Container ships…

• 6 min read
Automotive , semi , ic insights
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