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Photonics Keynote: Transitioning from Electrical to Optical I/O
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Paul McLellan
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19 May 2022
At last year's Photonics Summit, actually held earlier this year due to technical issues when the videos were meant to go live, the keynote was given by James Jaussi, Senior Principal Engineer and Director of the PHY Research Lab in Intel La...
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Arm SystemReady Compliance Using Emulation
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Paul McLellan
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18 May 2022
Yesterday in my post Cadence and Arm I wrote about how Cadence has worked with Arm over the last decade or more. Well, it is Arm again today since there is an Arm event at which Cadence is giving one of the presentations. Today is the second day...
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Cadence and Arm
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Paul McLellan
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17 May 2022
I've been working with Arm for longer than Cadence has. In fact, I was working with Arm before it was Arm, back when the Arm 1 was a processor developed by Acorn Computers (the A in Arm originally stood for Acorn). I described my early involveme...
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The 2022 Kaufman Dinner
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Paul McLellan
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16 May 2022
On May 12th, it was the Kaufman Award Ceremony and Banquet at which Cadence's CEO Anirudh Devgan was awarded the 2021 Phil Kaufman Award. Yes, I know it is 2022. Normally the award dinner is held late in the year, but for Covid-reasons, it was postpo...
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Sunday Brunch Video for 15th May 2022
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Paul McLellan
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15 May 2022
https://youtu.be/F-dN8wy-iNc Made at Steve Brown's "moving to San Diego party" (camera Larry Lapides) Monday: no post Tuesday: TechInsights: Foundation for the Future Wednesday: Open RAN Phase 2 Thursday: What Is High-NA EUV? Friday: N...
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New Book: Hyperscale Computing Trends 2022
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Paul McLellan
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13 May 2022
Cadence has a new book out. Written by Frank Schirrmeister and myself, it is called Hyperscale Computing Trends: 2022 Outlook. In some ways, it is similar to the Year of Breakfasts books that I have done each year for the last few years, a sort of be...
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What Is High-NA EUV?
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Paul McLellan
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12 May 2022
I'm sure you know that the lowest levels of ICs fabricated at the most advanced nodes, basically anything at 5nm and below, use EUV lithography (extreme ultraviolet). You probably also know that only one company in the world, ASML in the Netherla...
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Open RAN Phase 2
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Paul McLellan
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11 May 2022
I first wrote about Open RAN in my post Fourth 4G Network Goes Live in Japan . Open RAN is a program driven by a group of European operators to build specifications for common architecture instead of getting "locked into" the closed architec...
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TechInsights: Foundation for the Future
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Paul McLellan
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10 May 2022
The second day of the Linley Spring Processor Conference opened with a keynote by Jason Abt, the Chief Technology Officer of TechInsights, titled Foundations for the Future. There's a good chance you don't know who TechInsights is. Well, firs...
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Sunday Brunch Video for 8th May 2022
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Paul McLellan
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8 May 2022
https://youtu.be/xADMKcqKLNg Made on Communication Hill with Sheep (camera Carey) Monday: Gabrièle Saucier on the History of IP Tuesday: ESD Alliance CEO Outlook 2022 Wednesday: Always On at D&R Thursday: A History of Cadence in the C...
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An Interview with Morris Chang
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Paul McLellan
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6 May 2022
A couple of weeks ago, Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC and, for a long time (twice), its CEO, was interviewed at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), two think tanks in Washington DC. Th...
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A History of Cadence in the Cloud
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Paul McLellan
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5 May 2022
Cadence Cloud started before there even was a cloud. We just didn't call it Cadence Cloud. Back in the early 2000s, when I was on my first tour of duty at Cadence, we created something that we called Virtual CAD, or VCAD for short. The idea was that ...
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Always On at D&R
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Paul McLellan
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4 May 2022
At the recent D&R IP-SoC Day 2022, Amol Borkar presented Designing the Next Ultra-Low Power Always-On Solution. Amol is a product marketing director for the Cadence Tensilica product line. He started with some statistics about Tensilica. Tensilic...
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ESD Alliance CEO Outlook 2022
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Paul McLellan
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3 May 2022
Last week was the ESD Alliance CEO Outlook. It was hosted by Keysight (fka Agilent fka Hewlett-Packard) who, in addition to providing an auditorium, provided us all with excellent food and drink. ESD Alliance Annual Members Meeting Actually, the meet...
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Gabrièle Saucier on the History of IP
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Paul McLellan
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2 May 2022
Recently, it was D&R's IP-SoC Silicon Valley 2022. The opening keynote was given by Gabrièle Saucier, the CEO of D&R. It was also the 25th anniversary of D&R. But I met Gabrièle years before that. In December 1986, I rel...
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Sunday Brunch Video for 1st May 2022
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Paul McLellan
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1 May 2022
https://youtu.be/TERyp8U7PCY Made at Parker Ranch, Saratoga (camera Carey) Monday: DesignCon: Google on AI for Non-AI People Tuesday: Asianometry Wednesday: Linley: AI Moving to the Edge Thursday: Syntiant Wins MLPerf TinyML Benchmark (with...
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April Update: USB-C, Great Place to Work, Intel Fab Tour, DALL-E
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Paul McLellan
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29 Apr 2022
It's the last Friday in April already, so time for one of my monthly updates where I group small pieces that don't justify an entire blog post on their own. USB-C One of the very first posts I wrote when we started Breakfast Bytes was O ne Conne...
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Syntiant Wins MLPerf TinyML Benchmark (with Help from Tensilica HiFi)
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Paul McLellan
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28 Apr 2022
Earlier this month, MLCommons announced the latest round of results for inference. Just to be clear, there were no results for training announced, I guess that will be later in the year. However, Linley Gwenapp covered some aspects of training (based...
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Linley: AI Moving to the Edge
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Paul McLellan
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27 Apr 2022
Last week was the Linley Spring Processor Conference. One change since last year is that the Linley Group, who runs the conferences was acquired in October by Canada-based TechInsights. As it said in the press release announcing the acquisition: &qu...
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Asianometry
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Paul McLellan
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26 Apr 2022
If you like to take the semiconductor and EDA industries in video form, then one of my favorite YouTube channels is Asianometry. I contacted Jon V who creates the videos to find out a bit more about him beyond the fact that he lives in Taiwan. For so...
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DesignCon: Google on AI for Non-AI People
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Paul McLellan
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25 Apr 2022
At the recent DesignCon, one of the keynotes was given by Google's Laurence Moroney, titled The Realities of AI & Machine Learning: Cut through the Hype and Move to Production. Laurence wrote the book AI and Machine Learning for Coders . Both...
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Earth Day: What Will It Take to Get to Carbon Neutrality by 2050?
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Paul McLellan
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22 Apr 2022
It's Earth Day today. So let's take a look at what it would take to make everyone's Earth Day wishes come true—carbon neutrality, sometimes called Net Zero, by 2050. As it happens, I'm not especially worried about carbon dioxide. As I...
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DesignCon: Bespoke Silicon
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Paul McLellan
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21 Apr 2022
Something I've been writing about for literally years is the trend toward system companies designing their own silicon. It started in the mobile industry. Today, all the leading smartphone vendors design their own application processors and,...
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The Latest Addition to the Tensilica Family Is a Baby Neural Network Engine
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Paul McLellan
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20 Apr 2022
Increasingly, AI processing is being done on-device rather than uploading to the cloud for inference to be done there. This also requires "always-on" to make the human interaction simpler, without the need to perform some physical action such as push...
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Fidelity CFD Software
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Paul McLellan
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19 Apr 2022
This morning Cadence announced Fidelity CFD Software, a new generation of performance and accuracy in multiphysics simulation. I assume you already know this, but CFD stands for computational fluid dynamics. Cadence acquired CFD company NUMECA and me...
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