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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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How to Find Primes

Primes are really important in encryption. In fact, the foundation of internet security…

• 9 min read
security , prime number , encryption , factorization

Bagels and Brains: SEMI's Artificial Intelligence Breakfast

A couple of weeks ago the Silicon Valley chapter of SEMI held a breakfast meeting…

• 7 min read
Intel , semi , machine learning , aws , Amazon , xilinx , ARM , AI

Portable Stimulus and Correct Designs

The title of this post seems pretty generic, after all who wouldn't want correct…

• 4 min read
correct designs , Perspec , Accellera , pss

Sunday Brunch Video for 11th November 2018

https://youtu.be/deyk_MEkjZg Made at Cadence Diwali Celebration (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
Automotive , risc-v , China , Kaufman Award , IEDM

Kaufman Award Dinner: The Tom Williams Story

Wednesday night it was the annual Kaufman Award Dinner to honor this year's recipient…

• 6 min read
kaufman dinner , scan , Scan test , IBM , Kaufman Award , tom williams , lssd , synopsys

RISC-V Summit Preview: Pascal or Linux?

Coming up in December, in the same week as IEDM, is the RISC-V Summit at the Santa…

• 3 min read
risc-v , Spectre , instruction set architecture

IEDM Preview: 3nm and More

A lot of aspects of EDA and semiconductor are fairly easy to predict: you read off…

• 5 min read
IBM , 3nm , Samsung , imec , gaa , tu dresden , IEEE , IEDM

Automotive Summit: Driving an Industry with Electronics

Coming up on November 14th is the Cadence Automotive Summit. This will be held on…

• 3 min read
Automotive , lidar , radar , Tensilica , vision , ISO 26262 , ADAS , ARM

Breakfast Buffet for October 2018

https://youtu.be/YBlBzB3n504 The three highlighted posts for October were: CDNLive…

• less than a min read
hifi 5 , breakfast buffet , 112G SerDes , cdnlive israel

China Update

Over the last couple of weeks, I came across various little things about China, none…

• 6 min read
China , Micron , semi , DRAM , ic insights , bloomberg

Sunday Brunch Video for 4th November 2018

https://youtu.be/HCJG-tABZWE Made at Linley Fall Processor Conference (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
Automotive , hifi 5 , curvycore , formal , openroad , Tensilica , photonics , Texas Instruments , JasperGold , darpa

ERI: OpenROAD

If I had to summarize DARPA's Electronic Resurgence Initiative in one phrase, it…

• 6 min read
openroad , kahng , open source , eri , darpa

Yoga is Passé, the Future Is CurvyCore

Despite CurvyCore sounding like something that you might take classes in at your…

• 5 min read
curvycore , conformal routing , Virtuoso , photonics

"Alexa, What Is HiFi 5?"

"Alexa, turn on the living room light." "Okay." "Alexa, what is Cadence announcing…

• 4 min read
hifi 5 , alexa , audio , voice recogntion , Tensilica

Texas Instruments on Automotive Reliability

Recently, I seem to have been running into people from Texas Instruments (TI) talking…

• 8 min read
Automotive , electromigration , functional safety , aging , Texas Instruments , fusa , reliability

Formal Signoff with JasperGold

At the recent Jasper User Group, I said that there were several themes. For overall…

• 5 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , signoff , JasperGold

Sunday Brunch Video for 28th October 2018

https://youtu.be/1vU3sg3QlWc Coming from building 8 lab (camera Sean) Monday: The…

• less than a min read
security , ARM Techcon , Jasper User Group , chiplets , formal , Jasper , 112g , SerDes , ARM , darpa , chips

ERI: CHIPS and Chiplets

One of the DARPA programs that is part of the Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI…

• 9 min read
chiplet , eri , darpa , chips

Formal Post-Silicon Debug

Two outstanding presentations at the recent Jasper User Group were on using JasperGold…

• 6 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , JasperGold

ERI: Hardware Security Workshop

The opening morning of DARPA's Electronic Resurgence Initiative summit in San Francisco…

• 8 min read
security , eri , darpa

Arm TechCon: Get Ready for the NEOVERSE

I don't know if it was the vibe Arm's marketing was going for, but if you wanted…

• 5 min read
ARM Techcon , softbank , arm neoverse , ARM

The World's First Working 7nm 112G Long Reach SerDes Silicon

At the start of November last year, Cadence announced that it was acquiring nusemi…

• 6 min read
pam4 , 112g , semiconductor IP , SerDes , 7nm , datacenter

The DARPA Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI)

Many weeks ago DARPA organized a summit at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco…

• 8 min read
openroad , magestic , idea , posh , eri , darpa

CDNLive Israel 2018

This week it was the last CDNLive of the year, CDNLive Israel in Tel Aviv. From my…

• 5 min read

Jasper User Group 2018

This week it is CDNLive Israel. But last week it was Jasper User Group (JUG). At…

• 8 min read
Jasper User Group , formal , formal signoff , JasperGold , Formal verification

Of Arms and the Man I Sing

Arma virumque cano—of arms and the man I sing. This is the famous opening line of…

• 6 min read
ARM Techcon , arm datacenter , hpe , xcelium , ARM , JasperGold , verification

DDR5 Is on Our Doorstep

The talk of the town in the DRAM market (well, apart from its growth in the last…

• 3 min read
OIP , ddr5 , DDR4 , Micron , TSMC , DRAM

ESD Alliance Workshop on Digital Marketing: Tools and Sales

Yesterday was the first part about the ESD Alliance Digital Marketing workshop. Today…

• 3 min read
digital marketing , onespin , esd alliance
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