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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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Industry 4.0

Today we are at the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0 as…

• 7 min read
Industry 4.0 , additive manufacturing , fourth industrial revolution , Semiconductor , robotics

Matter

Do you know what Matter is? This is not a deep question about the origins of the…

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project chip , Matter , Smart Home

DVCon: PSS in the Real World

One of the opening presentations at the recent DVCon was an Accelera-sponsored update…

• 4 min read
Perspec , portable stimulus and test standard , perspec system verifier , DVcon , dvcon 2022w , pss , portable stimulus standard

Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe)

Recently, Intel, AMD, Arm, the two leading-edge foundries, Google Cloud, Meta, Qualcomm…

• 4 min read
ucie , Intel , SiP , chiplet , 3DIC , d2d

DVCon Functional Safety

At DVCon last week, there was an update on the Accellera Functional Safety Standard…

• 4 min read
Automotive , functional safety , Accellera , ISO 26262 , fusa

Navigating the CHIPS Act

At the start of the month, GSA organized a webinar Navigating the CHIPS Act with…

• 9 min read
commerce , gsa , chips act

The State of Mobile Today: MWC Barcelona 2022

MWC Barcelona, or Mobile World Congress as it used to be called, took place at the…

• 8 min read
5G , MWC , mwc barcelona , mobile , Olympics

Machine Learning in EDA: Videos and More

At a recent keynote, Bill Dally, the chief scientist at NVIDIA, said that the company…

• 1 min read
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Sunday Brunch Video for 6th March 2022

https://youtu.be/hA35r3Bo3a8 Made by me on Lumen5 Monday: Benedict Evans 2022, part…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Black Hat: Inside the Cyber Safety Review Board

Earlier this week, Black Hat ran a webinar titled Inside the Cyber Safety Review…

• 9 min read
security , cyber safety review board , csrb

Developing an AI Inference Chip with Cadence Flow in Azure Cloud

At last year's CadenceLIVE Americas, there was a presentation by d-Matrix about designing…

• 3 min read
dmatrix , cloud , azure , cadence cloud

How the Electricity Grid Works

I recently wrote about Moss Landing , the biggest grid battery storage operation…

• 7 min read
solar , electricity , electric grid , wind power

Raspberry Pi Is Ten Years Old

I'm sure you know what Raspberry Pi is. It was actually launched on February 29,…

• 5 min read
Raspberry Pi

Benedict Evans 2022, part 2

Every year at the start of the year, Benedict Evans produces a big presentation on…

• 2 min read
benedict evans

Sunday Brunch Video for 27th February 2022

https://youtu.be/_n4FOBDt_tY Made at Moss Landing (camera Carey) Monday: Presidents…

• less than a min read
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February 2022 Update

I can't believe that it is already the last Friday in February and so time for my…

• 7 min read
5G , Intel , portugal , SIA , AMD , tower , mobile , xilinx , dassault

Benedict Evans on Tech 2022

Every year at the start of the year, Benedict Evans produces a big presentation on…

• 5 min read
metaverse , benedict evans , Internet , web3 , mobille

Moss Landing

Everybody knows that the problem with sustainable energy is that it is intermittent…

• 6 min read
ev , grid storage , electric vehicles , moss landing

DVCon 2022 Preview

DVCon 2022 is coming up soon from February 28th to March 3rd. It is entirely virtual…

• 7 min read
dvcon 2022 , uvm , pss , fusa , verification

Sunday Brunch Video for 20th February 2022

https://youtu.be/jGAKLppD9YE Made in Lumen5 by me Monday: Generic and Open PDKs…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Offtopic: Sudoku and Wordle

Tomorrow is a Cadence "global recharge day" and Monday is Presidents' Day in the…

• 6 min read
offtopic , wordle , Sudoku

Automotive: CFD, FuSa, Aging, Vision, Light

That's a lot of acronyms and buzzwords! Just in case you don't know them all, they…

• 5 min read
CFD , Automotive , functional safety , Tensilica , vision , aging

China, US, Europe: Everybody's Got a CHIPS Act

I ran across a very interesting report from the Semiconductor Industry Association…

• 5 min read
asml , China , SIA , US CHIPS Act , Europe Chips Act

Generic and Open PDKs

One challenge that educators and researchers face is that they typically have no…

• 4 min read
Open PDK , openroad , google , PDK , efabless

Sunday Brunch Video for 13th February 2022

https://youtu.be/_Rt6kAURffU Made in Rancho San Antonio County Park (camera Carey…

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sunday brunch

January Update

I realize that it is February, but I was sick late January and so I never wrote this…

• 5 min read
Intel , risc-v , NVIDIA , update , ARM , agriculture

CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2022: You Can Be Part of the Event

CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley is scheduled for June 8 and 9, and currently it is planned…

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cadencelive

DATE 2022 Now Fully Virtual

As you can tell from the title of my DATE 2022 preview post Save the DATE: Design…

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DATE , date 2022 , design and test europe
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