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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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DAC Wednesday 2017: IoT, Innovation, AMS, iPhone, Hardware Contest, and Bagpipes

Yesterday was Wednesday at DAC here in Austin. For reports on the last three days…

• 10 min read
AMS , Apple , system in package , SiP , innovation , IoT , analog , Internet of Things , mixed signal , Breakfast Bytes , iPhone

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 26th to June 30th 2017

https://youtu.be/qE5sgFfGeIg Coming from the 54th Design Automation Conference…

• less than a min read
China , 54dac , silicon in package , Austin , Lip-Bu Tan , 7nm , design automation coference

DAC Tuesday 2017: Siemens, SiP, Simon & Lucio, Neural Nets, Nenni, Denali, and M…

Yesterday was Tuesday at DAC here in Austin. For reports on the last couple of days…

• 15 min read
Simon Segars , SiP , Semiwiki , silicon in package , Denali Party , Lucio Lanza , Siemens , neural networks , 7nm , ARM , Breakfast Bytes , Mentor

DAC Monday 2017: Joe, Lip-Bu, China, Under 40s, Smurfs, and More

It's Monday, the first real day of DAC after the kickoff on Sunday evening. See Guide…

• 12 min read
Joe Costello , 54dac , Lip-Bu Tan , chipestimatetv , #54dac , Breakfast Bytes

Sean and Paul DAC Walkthrough

Sean O'Kane and I wandered around the show floor during setup on Sunday and looked…

• less than a min read
54dac , chipestimatetv , Design Automation Conference

Guide to Austin for Newbies, and DAC Sunday Kickoff

This is my first post from DAC. I will be posting each day about the most interesting…

• 10 min read
54dac , Austin , Gary Smith EDA , iron works barbecue , franklin barbecue , #54dac , barbecue , Breakfast Bytes

Visual Baggage

If you have been watching my "What's for Breakfast?" weekly video previews, then…

• 7 min read
embedded vision , convolutional neural nets , autonomous vehicles , neural nets , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes Brought to You By... KQED?

If you live in the Bay Area, you have almost certainly heard KQED's Forum program…

• 6 min read
kqed , wired , mixed reality , fake reality , pbs , virtual reality , fake news , augmented reality

Samsung Foundry Forum: Beyond FinFET and FD-SOI

This is the third post on the second Samsung Foundry Day held recently. The first…

• 4 min read
IBM , envm , emram , horizontal nanosheet , rf-soi , GlobalFoundries , EUV , Breakfast Bytes , FD-SOI

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 19th to June 23rd 2017

https://youtu.be/QtKiDx9yXAY Coming from the Staten Island Ferry NY (camera…

• less than a min read
DAC , 54dac , Design Automation Conference

Samsung Foundry Forum: EUV

This is the second post on the second Samsung Foundry Day held recently. The first…

• 5 min read
Samsung , samsung foundry , EUV , Breakfast Bytes

Samsung Foundry Forum: Roadmaps

I attended the second Samsung Foundry Forum. As seems to be traditional for foundries…

• 4 min read
8nm , Samsung , samsung foundry , Qualcomm , 5nm , 7nm , 10nm , EUV , Breakfast Bytes

Pre-Silicon Software Development with Protium and Palladium Platforms

We've already had CDNLive EMEA, but here is a look at a presentation from CDNLive…

• 5 min read
debug , android , Protium , Palladium , embedded software , software development , linux , Breakfast Bytes

Schematic-Driven Simulation and Layout of Complex Photonic ICs

Photonics is transmitting data through fiber optic cables. As such, photonics is…

• 5 min read
PhoeniX Software , Lumerical , silicon photonics , Virtuoso , photonics , Breakfast Bytes

Cadence at DAC

Yes, it's nearly here, the 54th Design Automation Conference in Austin, Texas (and…

• 7 min read
DAC , Joe Costello , expert bar , Cadence Theater , 54dac , Denali Party , Accellera , cooley troublemaker panel , #54dac , pss , cadence lunches , Breakfast Bytes , portable stimulus standard

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 12th to June 16th 2017

https://youtu.be/oikFfm15nw8 Coming from Samsung@First (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
kqed forum , embedded vision , Samsung , computer history museum , samsung foundry forum , EUV , FD-SOI

Rowen: How to Start an Embedded Vision Company

The last presentation that I'll cover in its own post from this year's Embedded Vision…

• 6 min read
Chris Rowen , Embedded Vision Summit , embedded vision , Tensilica , Breakfast Bytes

Bier Goggles: 1000X in 3 Years

Jeff Bier heads up the Embedded Vision Alliance (and, in his day job, he heads up…

• 4 min read
Embedded Vision Summit , deep neural networks , Embedded Vision Alliance , BDTI , dnn , neural networks , Breakfast Bytes

Deep Understanding, Not Just Deep Vision

The keynote on the second day of the Embedded Vision Summit was by Jitendra Malik…

• 10 min read
convolutional neural nets , dnn , neural networks , CNN , neural nets , Breakfast Bytes

Lifting the Veil on Hololens

The opening keynote at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara was by Marc Pollefeys…

• 7 min read
hololens , microsoft , Embedded Vision Summit , Tensilica , vision , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 5th to June 9th 2017

https://youtu.be/C7nOhT8ey7g Coming from Cadence Cafeteria (camera Sean) …

• less than a min read
DAC , 54dac , palldium , Protium , embedded vision , Embedded Vision Alliance , silicon photonics , #54dac , Design Automation Conference

Embedded Vision Summit: "It's a Visual World"

"It's a visual world," Tim Ramsdale of ARM said at one point in the recent Embedded…

• 12 min read
embedded vision , deep neural networks , Tensilica , convolutional neural networks , neural nets , Breakfast Bytes

Virtuoso System Design Platform

Cadence was already talking about chip-package-board back in 2000 when I was putting…

• 3 min read
package , board , 2.5D packagin , Virtuoso , 3D packaging , interposer , Sigrity , Custom IC , Breakfast Bytes , Allegro

HOT Party Remembers Gary Smith...and the Denali Party

Every year at DAC, Heart of Technology (HOT) organizes a charity event. This year…

• 2 min read
DAC , HOT , Heart of Technology , Gary Smith , sjsu , Design Automation Conference , Breakfast Bytes

Open-Source Silicon

At the RISC-V workshop in Shanghai, the keynote on the second day was by Bunnie Huang…

• 12 min read
security , open source silicon , root of trust , bunnie huang , open source hardware , open source , Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 29th to June 2nd 2017

https://youtu.be/xTdQCRRme8U Coming from Mexico City, Mexico (camera Yuan Yuan…

• less than a min read
hololens , microsoft , deep learning , embedded vision , Tensilica , Virtuoso

RISC-V Shanghai 二

This is my second (二 in Chinese) post about the 6th RISC-V workshop held in early…

• 8 min read
computer architecture , risc-v , isa , instruction set architectures , Breakfast Bytes

Fifty Years of Computer Architecture: The Last 30 Years

As part of the RISC-V workshop, Dave Patterson gave a talk on computer architecture…

• 6 min read
risc-v , CISC , AMD , titanium , vliw , RISC , Breakfast Bytes
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