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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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Sunday Brunch Video for 5th December 2021

https://youtu.be/MPbxTioQ2EI Made in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserver (camera…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

DAC Preview

The annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) is coming up December 5th to 9th, next…

• 4 min read
DAC , 58DAC , Design Automation Conference

November Update: Automotive, Graviton 3, Images, New Fab, and More

Because of the Thanksgiving break (and me taking the whole week off), I skipped the…

• 6 min read
graviton 3 , Samsung , graviton , gf , aws , photonics , GlobalFoundries , general motors , Ford

Today Is the 40th Anniversary of the BBC Micro...and the Ancestry of Arm

Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of the BBC Micro. It was released on…

• 5 min read
Apple , bbc micro , ARM7TDMI , acorn , ARM

6th Annual Photonics Summit Coming in December

I was planning to publish this post on Diwali, the annual Indian festival of lights…

• 3 min read
Photonics Summit , photonics

Webinar: Signoff Billion-Gate Designs in the Cloud with Cadence, TSMC, and Micro…

Cadence, TSMC, and Microsoft are presenting a joint webinar on December 2 (in a couple…

• 4 min read
DSTA , microsoft , Tempus , TSMC , azure , webinar , cadence cloud

Sunday Brunch Video for 21st November 2021

https://youtu.be/c-6FEIsz1Qk Made in Sam's Chowder House, HMB (camera Ziyue Zhang…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Offtopic: Food, Especially Italian

We are coming up to Thanksgiving and so a break. Thanksgiving is built around food…

• 10 min read
offtopic , foood

Jasper User Group: Ziyad's State of the Formal Union

Last week was the Jasper User Group where we announced the Jasper C2RTL App. It was…

• 4 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , Formal verification

Samsung Foundry Fab Roadmap

At the recent Samsung Foundry Forum, GH Choi presented Manufacturing Excellence:…

• 4 min read
3nm , Samsung , samsung foundry forum , 2nm

KT Moore on More than Moore at iMAPS

San Diego recently hosted the 54th International Symposium on Microelectronics. That…

• 6 min read
system in package , more than Moore , integrity 3d-ic , heterogeneous integration

Cadence and Intel Demonstrate CXL 1.1/2.0 Interoperability

This weekend, timed to coincide with SC21, Cadence and Intel published a white paper…

• 6 min read
CXL , Intel , interoparability , cxl 2.0 , interop

Datapath Formal Verification 101: Technology and Technique

Earlier this week, Cadence announced the Jasper C2RTL App, which I covered in my…

• 7 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , c2rtl , formal , datapath , Formal verification

Happy 10th Birthday ISO 26262

Today is the 10th anniversary of ISO 26262. It was first published on 11th November…

• 3 min read
Automotive , functional safety , midas , ISO 26262

Announcing Jasper C2RTL App: Formal for Algorithmic Designs

Today is the first day of the Jasper User Group (unofficially known as JUG to attendees…

• 2 min read
Jasper User Group , c2rtl , formal , Jasper , JasperGold

Last-Mover Advantage

I was reminded recently of a video/transcript that I remember coming across when…

• 6 min read
startups , tesla , peter thiel

Reality in Your Glasses

Despite all the recent noise about the Metaverse (and Facebook changing its company…

• 5 min read
rayban , Facebook , virtual reality , augmented reality , meta

Sunday Brunch Video for 7th November 2021

https://youtu.be/rfVN6CA6LjQ Made in Pacifica (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Designing…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

IEDM Preview 2021

The big event for semiconductor process news is IEDM, the International Electron…

• 3 min read
iedm 2021 , IEDM

Semiconductor Numbers Everyone Should Know

I wrote a post a couple of years ago Numbers Everyone Should Know . It was about…

• 6 min read
capex , future horizons , malcolm penn , Semiconductor

Palladium Z2 Wins an ACE Award

A few years ago, the Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform won an ACE award…

• 2 min read

Jasper User Group Preview

I have been going to the Jasper User Group for years. Before Cadence acquired Jasper…

• 1 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , JasperGold , verification

Designing Planet-Scale Video Chips on Google Cloud

In the last couple of months, I have attended two presentations about Google's video…

• 4 min read
google cloud , google

Sunday Brunch Video for 31st October 2021

https://youtu.be/GuGgaH72-6U Made at Calistoga in Napa CA (camera Carey Guo) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Always Listening, HiFi 1 DSP

Today, at the Linley Processor Conference, we announced the latest addition to the…

• 4 min read
always on , audio , hifi 1 , Tensilica , hifi 1 dsp , earbuds

October Update: GPTW, Intel Fabs, Apple, and More

These monthly updates normally occur on the last Friday of the month, but that is…

• 5 min read
Intel , Apple , semi , Arteris , apple m1

TSMC OIP: 3DFabric and Integrity 3D-IC

Today is TSMC's OIP (or, to give it its full name, TSMC 2021 Online OIP Ecosystem…

• 3 min read
OIP , Integrity , TSMC , Innovus , integrity 3d-ic , 3dfabric

Semiconductor 101...and Sunday Brunch

If you have been reading Breakfast Bytes regularly for the last couple of years,…

• 5 min read
sunday brunch , semiconductor 101
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